party AND loot

We had a party for Blue in the park by our apartment on the Saturday morning following his birthday. I invited all his school friends, some karate friends, some park friends, and some building friends. And we had a pretty good turnout. The theme was dinosaurs (ha!) and we had a dino dig in the giant sandbox.

I ordered a whole bunch of dinosaur skeletons on Amazon and found some additional dino themed goods at the 100 yen shops (dollar stores are pretty popular here and have an amazing selection). Blue loved it. He found my stash the night before and wanted to go immediately to the park and bury all the dinos.

I just did simple finger food that was easy for kids and adults to snack on separated out for the meat eaters and the plant eaters. It was actually pretty hot but the only one who really seemed to mind was Wiley. She was fussy the whole time which is pretty unusual for her. I thought maybe she was tired but she literally stopped whining and started babbling again as soon as we hit the air conditioning.

This was Blue's first experience getting presents at a party. We opened one at the park which happened to be full of little pieces that he wanted to immediately open and play with on the spot. So we didn't open anymore until we got home and he had a fabulous day opening a present every hour or so.