Donovan's Ninja Birthday Party

For Donovan's sixth birthday party, he invited 3 girls and 4 boys (plus his brother) to his party. He wanted to have a Lego Ninjago birthday party. Since this is a rather new Lego line, I was on my own for decorations! The above cake is a delicious chocolate cake with vanilla frosting from our local grocery store, and we applied an edible cake topper to it (purchased on etsy.com).

The birthday boy!

Aaron and Donovan. (Apparently I need to rethink Aaron's pant size! These fit him in September! I guess he's had a bit of a growth spurt!)

The ninja headbands. (I stenciled each child's name, then folded and hand sewed them a bit so they would not unroll.)

2 ninjas in training waiting for their friends.

Posing!

I love this one of the two of them with their "ninja moves."

Happy Birthday banner I made.

The kitchen ready for the guests. The first thing the kids did was to color both sides of a ninja throwing star.

Ninja target game. The kids used the paper throwing stars they had decorated, to try to knock the balls off the tops. (I took empty Pringles canisters, covered them with red crepe paper, then covered paper towel tubes and toilet paper rolles with black cardstock, which I used a glue gun to stick on to the Pringles canister. We used ball pit balls for the top. I had first made two holes in the bottom of the Pringles cans, put a pipe cleaner through and secured them to a wooden board. This prevented the canisters from tipping over each time they were hit.)

Donovan getting ready to throw his. THIS WAS SUCH A HIT! THE KIDS LOVED IT.

 The green ninja pinata. (This was purchased on etsy.com.)

Donovan taking a swing! (It took about 45 swings total combined from all the kids to begin to have candy fall out and about 15 more before it was empty. It was GREAT!)

 Donvan takes another swing (and I quickly get out of the way).

Donovan hugging a friend. (This friend gave him a Lego Ninjago set, Cole's vehicle, and Donovan was ecstatic. It was the first thing he built after the party.)

Aaron enjoying his pizza.

Donovan and friends eating pizza and veggies.

Donovan with his red and black balloons before the party.

Donovan's Chinese Birthday

Happy Chinese Birthday Donovan!

A card, a couple of presents, and lucky money from Mommy and Daddy.

 A Kung Fu Panda card from Aaron, Mommy, and Daddy.

Lucky Money from Mommy and Daddy

YES! Lego Ninjago Jay's plane. It had 66 steps and he independently followed the manual and put it together.

hard at work

Finished product!

An incredible Lego toy!

Making his wish!

Trick or Treat

The boys had so much fun dressing up as ninjas and trick-or-treating!

Champlain Valley Fair 2012

Here we are on the WILD Mouse. It's such a fun ride. Both boys LOVED it. We knew the line would be long for it all day, so went there first. We rode it twice. SO MUCH FUN!

Here we are just as the ride is starting and we are about to be whipped around the first turn.

This is the Tornado. Donovan and Mommy rode it 3 times. Aaron rode it 1 time. It was WILD! Your set of 4 seats spins while the entire thing is up in the ride circling around quite fast. I cannot believe these daredevils!

Coming down the Fun Slide. The boys loved it. Here is Aaron in the lead.

And Donovan wins the race, with Aaron in 2nd place and Mommy last...

Way up high on an obstacle course. The boys must have done this more than 10 times!



Climbing up

The smile is because he knew he and I were going to go on Full Tilt next!

Here Donovan and Mommy are on Full Tilt. Donovan is 3rd from the right end. I'm to his left. I had a purplish blue and white striped shirt on. Here we are just taking off from the ground.

Here we are going up and up and up.

HIGH at the TOP. OH MY! We did this over 20 times on that one ride. YIKES! Donovan LOVED it. When we got off, he wanted to get right back in line and go again. I, on the other hand, did not wish to go back on it. We did go a second time, a little while later. And darn it, at the end of our day at the Fair, the line was just TOO long to go back on it!

This is basically my expression the entire ride. (Notice Donovan to my right and his expression.)









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