Isaac's birthday

Isaac had his birthday party, and I didn’t realize when I sent out the invitations that it was the same day as a women’s conference that several of the moms of the kids we invited were going to, so some kids couldn’t come. We didn’t invite too many kids, and it ended up that the others couldn’t come either, so we went to the Kango play center in Henrietta as a family – Michael hadn’t been before – and the boys had a ball playing freeze tag with daddy in the bounce houses and climbing areas (we asked, and adults can climb and bounce too as long as they take their shoes off), and going roller skating. It was a fun afternoon (even Mommy joined in on the game of freeze tag in the climbing structure for a while). Then we went to the store where Isaac used some birthday money from grandparents and chose to get a cool Lego castle set with some knights and a horse, and he got a cute, large stuffed puppy dog. I asked him what he was going to name his puppy, and at first he said Braxy, but I was able to convince him that since he already had a stuffed animal named Baby Brax, and another stuffed animal named Big Brax, that he should think of another name. But he couldn’t think of any, so he asked for help, and he liked the first idea I gave him, and he named his puppy Harley. Kolby used a gift card for his birthday and he got a Lego Star Wars set and a little stuffed puppy too, and he also wanted a suggestion on a name and ended up naming his puppy Mosely (those are both names I think are cute for when we get a second dog someday – Harley, Mosely, or Berkley. After we got home and ate dinner we had cake and ice cream – I was rather pleased with my freehand frosting pirate ship on Isaac’s cake. And then he opened his gift from us with the knights, carriages, dragons, and horses that go along with the castle set, and the boys have been playing with knights and pirates ever since then. I’d say that Isaac had a pretty fun birthday celebration. Luckily he’s still young enough that he wasn’t disappointed at all by the fact that no one came to his party, as long as we still got to do all those other fun things (and we got the house all cleaned up for a party, but didn’t have to clean up a mess of cake crumbs on the floor after a party, so I guess it was all for the best). :)