Matthew's 5th Birthday Party

After having the reschedule several times for various reasons, Matthew was finally able to have his birthday party the 23rd of January. He had been looking forward to it for a long time and was glad it finally happened. His party had a space theme. Activities included making UFOs out of paper plates and glow-in-the-dark stickers, making balloon rockets, getting the rocket safely through the asteroid field (a version of pin the tail on the donkey that U created) and flying around chairs to a rocketship song (musical chairs). There was fruit, apple raspberry muffins and apple juice for refreshment.

Blowing up rocket balloons--some of the kids could blow the balloons super big!

Around he goes!

Megan putting her rocket in the asteroid field.

A straight on shot of the asteroid field--the orange area was where you wanted to fly to get through safely.

The wall decorations (and Sarah). It's the sun plus the planets through Jupiter. And a UFO, of course.

Blowing out the candle.

Dawson, Edward, Matthew and James.

James, Megan, Leah, Fayth and Dawson.

Legos from Edward.

Building kits from Leah and Dawson.

More Legos from Fayth and James.

A rousing game of duck, duck, goose while waiting for the parents to arrive.

And let's not forget Santa. Matthew really wanted Santa to come to his birthday party. In fact, his plan on Christmas Eve was to get up when Santa came so that he could invite him to his birthday party. Unfortunately, Matthew slept right through Santa's visit (and was quite disappointed on Christmas morning that he'd done so!). We were able to dispatch a birthday party invitation to Santa. While Santa wasn't able to make it, he did send a letter and a birthday candy cane.