Ethan was invited to a birthday party today for a girl in his class. About a week ago he picked out a present at the store, which included two necklaces that he thought she would really like (the last birthday party he went to was also for a girl and he picked out a zombie sword for her). The party was across town and I needed to run some errands, so we left a little early so we could do them on the way. Ethan was a great help with those errands, and although they made us a few minutes late, he was a good sport about it. As we were approaching the party place we were both watching the clock to see how late we would actually be. I told him all about what 'fashionably late' means and how it applies to things like going to a party, but not going to school, or church, or when Dad has an important meeting. We ended up rushing in the door to the party only six minutes after the time listed on the invitation. However, when we got in, the mom of the birthday girl apologized and said that she had put the wrong time on the invitation and we were actually 54 minutes early and the first ones there - so much for being fashionably late!
Before I could think of something to do for the next hour, Ethan immediately got to work setting up chairs and decorations. The girl's parents went all out for the party and rented a party hall, set up fancy table and wall decorations, had a catered meal, and lots of fun games and prizes. However, besides Ethan, only four other little girls showed up. Ethan was a good sport about it though. All the girls teamed up against him in playing tag and doing a snowball fight with fake snowballs - we have had a super warm winter so far. The party had a Frozen theme and for one of the activities they did karaoke to all of the Frozen songs. Although all of the little girls were belting out "Let it go," "Do you want to build a snowman," and "For the first time in forever," Ethan didn't know any of the words. However, he was happy just dancing along and he even won the dance contest.
Ethan (6) is my superhero today for being a great party guest.
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