The next day was his party. He had invited all 16 boys from his class, my nephews and my niece and a few other friends. Not all of his classmates were able to come, but he did have quite a few that came (15 guests plus Bob and SJ). He decided on a Lego themed party. I decorated the gift bags to look like Lego bricks. SJ picked out mini-figs, gum, glow necklaces, Skittles candy and some white chocolate Lego bricks that I made for each of the gift bags. I made him a Lego cake with a over sized mini-fig man on top.
It had been unseasonably cold where we live for weeks. Fortunately, we were having a slightly warmer day on SJ's party day. Since we had so many kids coming, we decided to have the kids participate in a scavenger hunt. We split the kids into teams of 4. They had to search our yard for bags that had their Lego pieces in them. After they found all their Lego pieces and their instruction manual, they had to return to our house. We had them taking turns building their creations. They could only build for two pages and then a teammate would have to continue. The first team to finish was the winning team. Their prize was one of the completed Lego sets (airplanes and helicopters). It took the kids quite sometime to finish this activity (almost 45 minutes). They all seemed to enjoy this activity!
After they were done with the scavenger hunt, we had them take a guess at how many Legos were in the glass jar. We had guesses from 78 to 1000. I told the kids to make their guess. The winning guess would be the person who was the closest without going over (Price is Right style). There was 631 Legos in the jar. The closest guess was my niece, who guessed 576. She won a gift card to Subway.
We also had one last Lego themed activity. I had my husband build this ramp. SJ and he painted it and he added molding to the boards to make racing lanes. We had out a box of loose Legos and wheels for the kids to create their vehicles. I was going to make a game out of it, but we ended up letting the kids just use it for fun. It was very interesting to see the different vehicles that they came up with. Not all the kids used the raceway, but the ones who did were have a great time racing.
After we played the games, the kids had pizza, cake and ice cream. We then opened all of SJ's presents. He got a lot of nice things and he was very happy. When we were done with all the official birthday party activities, the kids went outside to play Nerf guns, basketball and with the Lego raceway.
The boys all left and just my nephews and niece were still at our house. My oldest nephew, Gabe, got hurt while playing basketball, so my sister and brother-in-law took him to an urgent care center. He had broken a bone in his foot. I felt terrible. He was doing something typical of a 12 year old boy. They had put three bike ramps on top of each other and were attempting to do slam dunks. I was sort of anticipating an injury. Call me psychic, but I would have rather been wrong this time. He and my other nephew, Cedar, were supposed to both have a sleepover. Obviously, Gabe wasn't going to be able to stay. We did still have Cedar stay over.
SJ spent the evening building his new Lego sets, while Cedar and Bob played video games. Towards the end of the night, my husband put on a movie for all of us to watch together. It was really nice to have Cedar for the night. The next day, we drove Cedar back to my house and visited with my sister's family until lunch time.
After lunch, we left my mom's house and stopped at Target. SJ had gotten some gift cards and cash and was browsing. He is a big browser. We were in there for over an hour. After an hour, he settled on a tennis headband, a sleeve of tennis balls, a new Lego set and two Lego boards. (He still has more birthday money to spend, but he likes to spread out his purchases.) SJ had a great birthday weekend!
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