yesterday joseph and his pals hit up the local timezone for his birthday party. when we asked him what he wanted for his birthday this year there was not even a moments hesitation before he yelled timezone again! well. that makes it easy for parents. until we booked just hours before the perth lockdown was announced. yikes. they were great to deal with though, we just pushed it back a week so he could hand out invites when school went back and that was heaps of time!
oh my goodness. i always forget just how loud little boys can be, until there is a bunch of them in the same place with computer games added to the excitement. it was insane! but watching them was hilarious... all us mums got such a laugh out of it - and all of them declared that it was the best party that they had ever been to!
he even let madeline invite her friend madison along too and she was loving having someone her age there too. they were hooked on the virtual reality and screamed their heads off along with the ride
and did some biking together lol
what a bunch. i am thankful over and over again to live in western australia where we remain reasonably unaffected by covid and don't have it ruining everything for us. i mean, i don't think most of our friends around the world would be able to do this, or anything like it, and if they were, it would be masks on at all times. ugh.
being that lockdown was only a few weeks ago and then another week of masks after that, i tried to be covid restriction friendly with the snacks at the party, even though they hadn't specified that i needed to do so. all packaged, in their own bags so they didn't even have to share. winner. plus there was a lot less prep and cost involved than my usual spread!
and this cake. oh that cake. i asked him what he wanted so that lovely aunty jenny could get to work, only he was insistent that he wanted a caramel mudcake from woolworths. that was it. his only request. so i got creative. i had seen this hack on the internet and it's so easy that it's ridiculous so that was the order of the day. two caramel mudcakes, stacked, mouth cut out (and eaten by happy kids) lol with chocolate fingers all the way around for a border, a filling of yellow smarties and half a giant marshmallow coloured in with a sharpie for his eye. probably the easiest cake of all time, not going to lie.
and he loooooved it!
party done, cake cut...
happiest kids, "goody bags" items chosen from the prize store with the preloaded points you get as part of the party pack
and amazing cookies from aunty jenny to take home too. thank goodness that's over for another year!
l to r: jane, sandra, moi and shez
