There were many birthday parties this weekend.  We had planned to attend Logan’s buddy Ian’s party on Saturday, another buddy Jaime’s party on Sunday afternoon and Michelle’s birthday dinner tonight.  We were not able to make to Logan’s classmate Ashley’s party due to conflicting hours. 

    Ian’s party was at Pump It Up at 1:30pm on Saturday, and Logan was able to catch a powernap while driving over there.  Logan was quite excited about the jumpy houses, but once the party started, he did not really care to go inside.  He was just walking around and checking out the different playhouses.  He finally went into a few of them with his buddy Rohan.  He kept waiting for an open spot for the canon balls which finally opened up few minutes before switching rooms.  He did not hesitate to wear the goggle, climbed inside quickly and had a blast shooting.  At the next room, most of his classroom mates spent lots of times in the giant slide, but Logan was not interested to try that at all.  He and some kids played with one of the dads in a big stadium jumpy house for a little while, and he played a game of ice hockey with Rohan.  Logan seemed to have a great time overall, and had fun having a snack and goofing around with Rohan afterward.  Logan actually stayed awake for the drive home.  But unfortunately, the combination of pizza, cake, jumping and maybe the way I drove, Logan threw up a lot when we were just few minutes from home.  He did well staying still until Stuart rescued him from the mess.  After cleaning up and a bath, it was past 4pm and seemed too late for him to go down for a nap.  So we just decided to call it an earlier bedtime for everyone, both kids were down before 7:30pm.

    On Sunday, Jaime’s party ended up being postponed until next week since he was sick.  So we just did some Christmas shopping and grocery shopping in the morning.  Before heading over to Michelle’s birthday dinner, I changed Connor to a button-up shirt, and Stuart happened to wear one as well.  When we told Logan to get going, he asked “what about me?  a nice shirt for me?”  So I gave him a button up shirt to change into too.  Everyone met up at a Caribbean restaurant in Palo Alto. Before the food arrived, Logan was drawing on a coloring book while Connor was already a bit antsy, not wanting to go into a highchair, but he was fine sitting with me on the long bench.  Most of the kids were very content being entertained on their phones.  It was quite busy once foods arrived.  Everyone tried to taste the different dishes while feeding their kids.  Both Logan and Connor ate a decent meal.  After eating, Connor just wanted to walk around; I finally gave in and he was happy walking a few steps back and forth from me.  After singing birthday song, eating desserts, we did a quick Christmas gift exchanges for the kids, then it was time to part as it is a school day tomorrow.  As we were walking back to the parking lot, Logan said “it was fun today, we should do it again”.  Both boys were still excited, playing with their flashlights and with each other all the way home.

     On a side note, Logan helped me make some gingerbread cookies yesterday.  He has been talking about making some cookies for Santa, so we did a practice run.  Both boys enjoyed eating them at night too.