The Birthday Party!

We held Elijah’s party at a local skating rink.  On certain days and times you can rent the whole place out for your party.  Your guests can brings anything with wheels, so that’s what we did.  We ordered pizza and had cupcakes and snacks.  The DJ played age appropriate music at an age appropriate volume!  It was SOOO much fun!
Grace and Elijah helped assemble the skate board cupcakes the night before.  The next morning, all the toostie rolls had melted and they looked more like Dr. Suess skateboards.  Alas, they still tasted super yummy!  The skating rink also had two huge screens that said HAPPY 5th BIRTHDAY ELIJAH on them.  He thought that was “awwesome” (yes with two w’s)!  Even though the evite said no gifts (and our playgroup is VERY strict about this!) Elijah did receive some gifts, which we put under the table until we got home.  He got some cool things.  He was excited to open presents, but we just feel that is not what birthdays are about.  We do gifts from family (and some CLOSE friends we occasionally make exceptions for) but we would rather the day be about celebrating and having fun!  I know this will get harder as the years progress, but as long as possible, I would really rather try to make it more about celebrating and not about presents!
Again, not too many pictures because of the other kid rule I have, but it was super doper fun!!!