The title says it all -- especially when it comes to remembering the details of an event that took place a month ago. Poor Isaac and his 7th birthday. Womp womp. Of course, having tons of pictures of said event helps to a certain degree, but I'm going to go ahead and let you know right now that this is potentially a lackluster post at best.
After school on his birthday
For Isaac's actual birthday day, Scott was out of town but my brother Freddie was visiting for the week, so we still made it work! Hahahaha. He really wanted to go to a trampoline park that's like an hour and a half away for his big day, but I steered him in the direction of a Chuck E. Cheese celebration and thankfully that hit the spot. As an added bonus for me, the outing doubled as his chosen "birthday dinner." Hahaha. Armed with two 60-minute-playtime-cards to share amongst our crew, we took over the local Chuck E.'s on a low key Thursday night. Pizza was eaten, games were played, a card was almost lost in the void of a skee ball machine, and a number of tickets were accrued and then traded in for who knows what kind of junk at the end of our evening.
In theory, one of the cards was supposed to be mainly for Isaac, with the other kids mostly sharing the other one...
...in actuality, I think both cards were regularly swapped and occasionally misplaced, but I don't remember any fights, so I guess the strategy worked? Hahhaha.
Who doesn't love Skee Ball???
Trying to game the system
Chilling on a ride with "Uncle DoDo" (aka Freddie)
Meanwhile, the girls were obsessed with this jumping/dancing (?) game and hardly did anything else.
Grace REALLY wanted me to capture a shot of her levitating off the ground. LOL.
I have no idea how this happened, but Alex somehow managed to drop his card in the skee ball queue slot and it slipped into the machine itself. Lucky for us, a worker used her key to open it up and Alex was able to grab the card and keeping playing. Whew!! Hahaha.
Isaac made a new friend to play air hockey with.
Thankfully, Scott was back home the next day, just in time for a "family party" featuring: another balloon arch, an Among Us cake, and a random assortment of presents that the kids picked out just for Isaac. He was delighted to come home from school to see the front hall banister bedecked with balloons and was suitably appreciative of his finished cake and presents, so I'll take that as a win! Hahahaha.
(Between Grace and Isaac's birthdays, I've unleashed a hidden inner beast for making balloon arches.)
The Cake -- devil's food cake plus cream cheese frosting; red sugar crystals coating the whole thing; and a fondant "mask" topping it all off. Despite the absolute MESS of trying to get the red sugar to stick to the frosting and not the rest of the kitchen, the cake was surprisingly simple to create. (Spoiler alert: the red sugar -- like glitter -- ended up everywhere and was equally difficult to clean up.)
I don't know what the deal is with these Squishmallows, but my kids are all kind of obsessed.
A Roblox nerf gun and action figures, along with a lot of candy, rounded out his haul.
Precious little lamb -- all tuckered out at the end of the day.
To close, I'll leave you with my top 7 favorites from the "Isaac Sleep Poses" album I've created in Google photos -- and yes, a whole album IS necessary to capture the many (many) iterations of how Isaac falls asleep each night. And since this post is all about our birthday boy, I'll include a fun fact with each one. (Please note -- NONE of these photos are staged; this is 100% Isaac-asleep-in-the-wild. Hahahaha.)
1.) He's obsessed with Roblox
2.) Pizza is his favorite food
3.) He'd really like to have his own YouTube channel (doing what, I have no idea -- but he's fairly confident he can hit 100K subscribers)
4.) He has a very slight lisp that I find absolutely adorable even if his occupational therapist has recommended he be evaluated for speech therapy
5.) Green is his favorite color
6.) His laugh whenever he's delighted is my favorite
7.) He "only loves for [mom] to do everything for [him]"
And that's a wrap. Happy Birthday to my favorite 7 year old!!
2 comments:
Oh my gosh, those sleeping pictures are the best! He's adorable!!! And I think his statement at #7 is pretty classic youngest child. I was recently told, after breaking my ankle and not being able to do much, that "it is really hard to love you right now because you aren't doing anything for me." Guess we need to work on unconditional love😂.
sit next right to me mom
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