Nathan's Birthday Party

On December 5th, we had Nathan's birthday party. We had it early to try and avoid some of the Christmas craziness. This year, Nathan wanted to have his party at IHOP. I offered, instead, that we could have a pancake party. So, that's what we did. Nana (and Grandma and Grandaddy) cooked pancakes and we had all sorts of toppings for them. Nathan even blew out a candle on the stack of pancakes.


Nathan didn't put any toppings on his pancakes, but the rest of the kids did. Here is Caroline's plate.


And here are Nathan's friends. I know you are going to think that we only let him invite girls, but it's just not true. He was actually supposed to have one boy there, but he was sick. Oh well, Nathan had a good time and doesn't seem to notice the gender of his guests. (As a side note, the one next to Nathan who is wearing purple has a plan to marry Nathan when they get older.)


Daddy made a frying pan and Nathan cut out pancakes for a Pin the Tail on the Donkey-type game. However, we couldn't find a good place to play it. Instead, we played throw the pancakes at the pan. The kids thought it was good fun. Nathan made a paper "winner" ribbon. Each round, whoever got closest to the center got to wear the ribbon. I think everybody won eventually.


Towards the end, Daddy read all the kids a Curious George book about making pancakes. The little girl on the right wasn't actually there for most of the book. She had gone back to eating pancakes with chocolate chips.


Later, after lunch, we had cake and ice cream with just the family...well, with the grandparents. Nathan blew out the candle and we sang to him again.


And then he decided that he wanted the candle on his piece of cake as well. Grandma quickly fulfilled the Birthday Boy's wishes. Nobody can say that he missed out by having him birthday near Christmas! (Plus, on his actual birthday, we took him to eat for lunch and had hamburgers at Grandma and Granddad's for supper.)


After lunch, Sara went down for a nap. And after cake and ice cream, so did Caroline. Nathan was itching to get into his Magnetism set (even though he didn't know what it was when he opened it). Granddad and Nathan spent quite a while doing some of the experiments. Nathan had a great time and so did Granddad!


We also took a few videos for the people who sent gifts but weren't able to be there. They are over on Dropshots.