Kimball's Birthday

Kimball turned 7 over the weekend.  It is hard to believe he is already 7 years old.  The time really has gone quickly.  We started the day with a breakfast of Kimball's choosing...cheese danish.

Kimball was eager all day, and the few days preceding, to open presents.  Shortly after breakfast we let Kimball have his first gift.  Joseph had made him a soccer goal.

Kimball's excitement over his goal.

Joseph and Kimball needed a quick soccer game to try it out.  Kimball is only allowed
to play soccer in the house when Joseph is playing so things don't get out of hand.

After the excitement of the goal wore off Kimball needed another present.  Joseph is currently working on a project in our basement putting in new insulation and building some shelves for storage.  Joseph bought Kimball a hammer so Kimball could help.

Using his new hammer.

We did the rest of the family presents in the evening.  Kimball was excited to receive so many Legos, Hero Factory, K'nex, etc.

Kimball told Joseph recently that he wanted his very own Fan Chart from FamilySearch
with his name in the first position for his birthday.  This was an easy request.  Kimball posing
with his fan chart with the 6 generations preceding him all filled in.

Blowing out his 7 candles.

Kimball really wanted a birthday party this year.  I decided I needed to make it work even though I was 30 weeks pregnant with twins and super tired the days leading up to his birthday.  We knew a family in Arkansas who did two "friend" birthdays for each of their kids, one when their child was small and one as a teenager.  I really liked this idea and I decided that the 7th birthday would be a good year for a party.

Kimball had a Lego theme.  It was Lego in the games, but I didn't have the energy to make a ton of Lego decorations or foods.  I did turn juice boxes into 1x2 bricks and they were cute.

Game #1 Lego Memory.  I gave the kids about 3 minutes to look at all of the Lego accessories and then they had about 5 minutes to write down as many as they could remember.  This game probably would have been better for older kids because half of the group didn't understand that they needed to be remembering as many as they could.

Lego Memory objects.

Looking at the pieces.

                         
Game #2 Put the head on the mini-figure.  Each child decorated their own mini-figure face and then they tried to put it on the body.  The kids enjoyed this one.

Decorating their faces...

Playing the game...

Rebecah's turn.  I told Kimball if he had a party he needed to let Rebecah attend and participate.

Kimball's turn.

Game #3  Guess how many Legos are in the jar.  This game was pretty easy to put together, but it also didn't take very long at the party.

Kimball is just too good.  He technically won every single game, but after the first one I told him he could only win one time.  There were 55 Legos in the jar and Kimball guessed 50.  Everyone else was off by 40 Legos at least.

Everyone pointing at the birthday boy.

Blowing out his cupcakes.

I love how excited all of the kids got at present time.  They were all crowding around to see what Kimball opened and no one seemed disappointed that they weren't opening gifts.  I loved it.

Kimball with his good friend William.

All of the party goers.  A few others had planned on coming, but last minute
things popped up so they couldn't make it.

We ended the party with a pinata.  Each child got two turns.  The girls were dainty and each got about 5 hits per turn.  The boys were more rough and only got 3 hits per turn.  After all of that hitting, it still wasn't broken so Joseph had to go in and bust it open.  It took quite a few swings on Joseph's part.  He even broke the bat we were using!

Rebecah's turn.

Marilyn's turn.

Kimball's turn.

Jose's turn.

Thank goodness Joseph was around to help with crowd control.  It would have been crazier if I had been running the party solo.  Kimball had a great time and I think all of the kids did too.  

We are so happy Kimball is part of our family.