Birthday Parties!

Sunday we drove up to Redwood City for a friend's daughter's 5th birthday party. Christopher had so much fun. So many of our friends from the Bay Area now have kids it's such a different experience.

Of the kids that were participating in the activities, Christopher was the youngest (this is besides the babies under one). So it was interesting to see him interacting with the other older kids.

Story time:

The birthday girl

He loved playing with the trains (duh!)

And the helicopter

Participating with the other kids...

So then they decided it would be fun to play a game of hot potato with the pink dolphin (they said it's a dolphin). They would play music, and the kids would pass the dolphin around the circle. Whoever was holding it when the music stopped, was out. But they HAD to pass it...

Christopher really liked the dolphin

But he did as he was asked and sat in the circle with Aiden right next to him

And waited patiently... (look at his fingers)

And they started

So obviously, the two youngest didn't quite get it. Aiden wanted to hold on to it, so Asha tried to go around him by tossing it to Christopher. However, how Christopher thought you had to "throw" it to the next person, which he kept doing right into their head. Lovely.... But you can tell my his smile, he loved it.

And then back to the trains

They had a bell that they'd let the birthday girl ring to bring the kids together. Christopher would go running from where ever he was. Then... he found the bell...

Then he found this little toy to play on...

He loved it

Then they blew up a jumpy house for the kids to play in. Christopher got in...

But he was too small to get up on the slide by himself...

So he cheered on the other kids instead :)

He was so good, just as happy cheering them on, wasn't upset at all that he didn't get to go down it.

He'd stand there and yell "go go" as they went down.

We headed home at nap time which was a perfect ending to such a fun day.