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The birthday party

9/18/2022

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Yesterday was the first birthday party that my daughter and son-in-law hosted that was all kids, in other words, for the most part, the parents dropped their kids off and boogied. Which left the intrepid hosts with twenty something screaming, yelling, kids on a sugar high to take care of for several hours..... So how did that go?.... They said they would never do that again!

I peeked over the fence when the kids got here to take a few pictures, but since it looked more like Custer's last stand than a birthday party, I hurried back to the Arctic Fox and hid under the bed until it was over.... That works for holidays, and I hoped it would work for this party.

All of this for one eight-year-old boy.

It was wisely decided due to the very tenuous control my daughter and her husband had over the current situation, and previous experience at other birthday parties, that the birthday presents wouldn't be opened until all the participants had gone home, or had been taken into custody.

This allowed for a more calm, quiet, family oriented end to the party such as this father and son picture of birthday presents being opened.

The theme for this birthday party was something called ROBLOX. I completely understood when my grandsons party was themed for "Matchbook Cars. " And I was very familiar with his birthday party theme being dinosaurs, as I myself was very familiar with dinosaurs since as a kid I lived amongst them.

But ROBLOX are completely alien to me. And I don't know if there a cartoon, a video-game, or little people that live in the attic. But whatever they are they seem very popular with the eight-year-old crowd, but their existence has totally left me behind which happens quite a lot when you get old.

You would never have guessed that an hour ago this living room looked like it had been struck by back to back category five tornados.

Fortunately ROBLOX, whatever they are, weren't the only gifts received by the birthday boy.

This mangled and mutilated birthday cake and tons of gift wrappings, is all thats left of the birthday festivities. But in the end all the kids had a great time, doing what twenty or more eight-year-old kids do, and only the party hosts have suffered from what appears to be temporary PTSD.

4 Comments

Judith

9/18/2022 08:51:44 pm

Hope the parents were alive and well today. I could easily see your grandson in the photo (movie star quality appearance) but I wasn't sure about your granddaughter....maybe the last one at the far end of the table on the right side. She is movie star quality too...but there seem to be so many BOYS. Ha.

Tom

9/18/2022 09:24:59 pm

Thank you Judith. Yep, everybody survived, but my daughter reiterated that it was not a pleasant experience, and the invitees will be limited to less than 10 next time. That could be my granddaughter but I'm not sure. That particular picture is a cell phone picture my son-in-law took because I didn't stick around the party long enough to take a picture.

Yeah I'm not sure how all those girls snuck into the party, I think when a boy was invited he brought along his sister. But my daughter said that the girls played quietly and were no trouble at all, and the boys are running around like the old Tasmanian Devil cartoon getting into everything.

Tom

Larry Worsham

9/19/2022 05:29:08 am

I have two grandsons ages 8 and 10. They are great kids but speak a language I don't understand. They talk about Roblox bucks and some little pokemon character that they hunt for and stuff. The 10 yr old is becoming an expert on military aircraft, tanks and other stuff due to his interest in video games. He is into building model airplanes. You tube video's are a huge influence.

I guess each generation has its own unique focus but it seems much more complicated that mine.....which was playing outside, getting into dirt clod fights and building models.

I love em and enjoy them but they do leave me confused!

9/19/2022 07:36:40 am

I sympathize. Kids don't seem to be interested in, Tom and Jerry, Donald Duck, or Mickey Mouse anymore. I don't know why, they were certainly fun to watch when I was a kid. But now they seem to be interested in things that you have to buy, Roblox being a good example. There's a gazillion different Roblox characters and the kids are required to collect each one, I think the Roblox creators learned that little trick from the Pokémon creators.

When I was in elementary school, and part of junior high school, I too was interested in all things military, and would build models of various tanks and airplanes, and all of us would draw pictures in school of battle scenes, most of which would've got us kicked out of school now days, but World War II was still fresh on our minds, and the military was our heroes.

You brought back some memories with the dirt clod reference. We threw dirt clods at each other, and at our little plastic Army Men that we would set up in the yard. The dirt clods didn't hurt as bad as hitting each other with rocks, and they made a satisfying cloud of dust when they hit the ground.

But overall the biggest difference between grandpa and these grandkids is we played outside most of the time, the only exception being when it was raining, and even then we stayed outside as long as our mom would let us, but the kids now have so much to do inside with all their toys, video games, and computers, there's no reason to go outside anymore.

Tom

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