Jaya celebrated her 7th birthday this year. As her birthday came and went, I was slow to do a party (by party I mean a friends party). I actually asked her if we could just skip the whole friend thing this year, and go out as a family. She thought long and hard, and finally said "what do you want me to pick mom?" After my spill about how I am really tired, she said she would pick a family party. I was relieved. Later that week Darrin found out about our plans and conversation and said "Darcy, she is 7, let her have a birthday party." I find it interesting he ended up suggesting it be on a day and time, he would be at work, but that's not the point of the story. So 3 weeks after her birthday we had a party.Because Jaya was in charge of helping me plan she came up with the idea of a Journaling Party. It turned out to be so fun. I love that she picked such a creative theme. We decorated these cute little journal jars. A Journal jar is filled with pieces of paper that have questions to help prompt you on what to write in your journal.
We also did those Mad Libs and came up with crazy stories. 
Now you may be wondering why my 7 year old has ice cream on her face in the above picture, and that's where my question of, is she wiser comes in. After she blew out the candles, she thought it would be funny to stick her face in the cake. I tried to coax her not too, I was pretty embarrassed that the guest of honor was going to willingly subject herself to this sort of humiliation, but I guess it's not humiliating if you want to do it. I asked her right before, "why?" which she replied "because they want me to!" the timeless phrase popped into my mind...would you jump of a bridge because your friends want you to? And the resounding answer for my Jaya at age 7 is YES!
To kill some time we played Red Rover, which Eden was invited to join in. She did awesome, she didn't say anything, but she ran like a steam engine and actually broke through. I love this picture where Jaya is helping her sister run across the field.
Happy 7th birthday Jaya! It's going to be a great year.
2 comments:
I love that Darrin was all for a party when he was at work, that is such a Jason thing! He is all for the playdates... when he is at work. So funny! Happy birthday Jaya!
How funny.... I tried to talk to Jace into not having a big party either, but he not only wanted a party, but wanted to invite his whole class! I said okay as long as we have the party at the park! The things we will do for our kids!
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