Happy birthday Amelia!
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I haven't mentioned her at all before because she's one of Laila's classmates, and on Friday night we got invited to her birthday party.
We've been to birthday parties before but this was second time we've been to a birthday party for someone in Laila's class and the first time it was at their house (the first one we went to was at a zoo). Because of that they had all the standard party games for young kids--they painted pictures, they played pin the tail on the donkey, hit a piñata, danced to songs from K-Pop Demon Hunters!, the works. They ate pizza and cake while the adults ate fajitas and drank margaritas. It's the story about kids' birthday parties that we didn't realize was happening while we were young but heard about after we grew up.
Laila...was a bit of a handful. She didn't really play with the other kids very much, and she kept running around and grabbing balloons, so we couldn't just trust her to hang out with the other kids. One of us always had to follower her around and keep track of her to make sure everything was going okay. It was a smaller house with a bunch of kids, though, so some chaos was expected. Near the end she started getting even more wild, but she had been up since almost 6 a.m. and it was past her bedtime, so it was definitely time for her to go home.
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sashagee talked to Amelia's mom at the party a bit and maybe we'll get a playdate set up! The parents were mentioning how they were a bit disappointed that it seemed like no one had set up any playdates. I talked to a couple of the other dads in the kitchen--one of the parents is French, so we chatted about being in a country where you don't speak the language at all (him when he came here, me in Japan) until I had to run away because Laila was on a rampage again.
Also,sashagee did get some vindication, though! One of the other parents mentioned that they also were offered the option of half-day preschool for their four-year-old, so it's not just us. The school officials acted like this was a mistake that we had made and everything was all our fault, but nope! They screwed up their intake forms. Well, at least now we know.
We've been to birthday parties before but this was second time we've been to a birthday party for someone in Laila's class and the first time it was at their house (the first one we went to was at a zoo). Because of that they had all the standard party games for young kids--they painted pictures, they played pin the tail on the donkey, hit a piñata, danced to songs from K-Pop Demon Hunters!, the works. They ate pizza and cake while the adults ate fajitas and drank margaritas. It's the story about kids' birthday parties that we didn't realize was happening while we were young but heard about after we grew up.
Laila...was a bit of a handful. She didn't really play with the other kids very much, and she kept running around and grabbing balloons, so we couldn't just trust her to hang out with the other kids. One of us always had to follower her around and keep track of her to make sure everything was going okay. It was a smaller house with a bunch of kids, though, so some chaos was expected. Near the end she started getting even more wild, but she had been up since almost 6 a.m. and it was past her bedtime, so it was definitely time for her to go home.
sashagee talked to Amelia's mom at the party a bit and maybe we'll get a playdate set up! The parents were mentioning how they were a bit disappointed that it seemed like no one had set up any playdates. I talked to a couple of the other dads in the kitchen--one of the parents is French, so we chatted about being in a country where you don't speak the language at all (him when he came here, me in Japan) until I had to run away because Laila was on a rampage again. Also,
sashagee did get some vindication, though! One of the other parents mentioned that they also were offered the option of half-day preschool for their four-year-old, so it's not just us. The school officials acted like this was a mistake that we had made and everything was all our fault, but nope! They screwed up their intake forms. Well, at least now we know.
