A Party for Peter

Today Peter got to have his friends from school over for a birthday party.  We did this for Esther when she turned 5, and Peter has been looking forward to this for a while.  He was so cute about it all.  As we'd get the RSVPs, he was so excited that all of his friends were going to be coming over.  Three of the boys couldn't come, so we had 8 boys here including Peter.  Originally we were going to have Esther and Miriam go somewhere else during the party, but Peter wanted them to be here.  He told us that he wanted them to be here to meet his friends and to play the games with them.  So sweet. 

Casey was convinced that we could just dump a bunch of cars and trucks on the floor and they would play for 2 hours.  His other idea was to just put in the Cars movie since it was a Cars-themed party.  I of course had to plan some things, so we did play a few organized games including "pin the hammer on Bob the Builder" (those drawings Casey did on the basement wall come in handy sometimes!), a basketball competition, a relay race, a few games of Hullabaloo, and a Cars bingo game.  We ate cupcakes, opened gifts, and the rest of the time they played cars and played with Peter's geo trax and hot wheels track in his room.  It is a really nice bunch of boys, and they played very nicely together and were all kind and polite.  The girls also did a great job hanging with the boys, although when Casey asked Esther if she'd like having 8 brothers, she didn't seem too keen on that idea.

Here are a few pictures of the fun afternoon:

Playing cars

Hullabaloo

Do a funky dance!

The birthday boy (with a crown he made in school)

Cupcakes and ice cream!

The whole crew... plus Miriam!