Tim turns six on Friday and celebrated his birthday with what he calls his 'science office friends' at school yesterday. Three of his classmates are sons of my colleagues and all of them are science teachers. Another science teacher who started this year has two sons that are also Tim's friends. One is a year older than Tim and the other is a year younger. The adults take turns collecting all five of them at the end of the day. The science department is on the ground floor of the high school, beside a side entrance, so whichever adult has pick-up duty takes them to the science office to wait for the parents to collect them and take them home.
This is the first year that he seemed to actually enjoy being the center of attention and stood smiling by his cake for the entire "happy birthday" song.
All of the boys are fans of the video game called Minecraft, so when Tim requested it for the theme of his party, it was easy to agree. Paul drew the creeper faces. Tim colored them in and wrote the names of each boy on their bag.
I got my cake idea from Pinterest. These are brownies cut into 1 inch squares. The figures are plastic characters from the game.
A local company printed the banner. Each triangle has his name and age on it.
They watched and listened to youtube videos of song parodies that have been set to Minecraft.
Tim is behind the humongous card. Daniel is in the striped shirt and Jack is beside Daniel. Ginger is Jack's mom (in the background). Ginger teaches English and her husband Rich teaches physics. They are from Texas.
Tim and Daniel.
Tim was happy with his party and Paul and I were pleased with how involved he got with the preparations: coloring the bags and choosing each toy/candy to put inside them. Tonight, I'm making more brownies - no theme - for Tim to take for his whole class on Friday. We'll celebrate his birthday with Luke this weekend as a family. I've got some video to put on but technical difficulties mean it will have to wait for now.
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