The Party

On October 26, Connor turned 6! I decided to throw him a little friend party here at the house.  Nothing super involved – just play time and food with friends from day care and kindergarten.  

We invited six or seven kids and only one RSVPed (no) by the date I put on the adorable invitations.

Y’all – I was crushed. No one was coming to my little guy’s first party. I tried not to take it personally – maybe it was a busy weekend?  I tried not to think it was because he is different than most kids – maybe they lost the invitations? But those thoughts kept creeping into my head.

Making pictures with Connor's undersea stamps

Then the next night, a mom texted me that her son could come! Yes! The party was ON!  I replied that was great and warned her he’d be the only one at the party.  The party morning came, and the little friend showed up.  He and Connor started playing and then the doorbell rang – another (unexpected) friend!  Then about an hour in, the little girl whose mom said she couldn’t make it came.  By the time we were cleaning up the stamping fun and getting ready to eat muffins there were enough kids to constitute a party!

Mid-way through the muffins Connor melted down.  He was ready for the party to be done.  Predictably, the other kids were not ready for the party to be done, so they went back to the play room.  We tried to make Connor rally.  We even took a little break – all the kids piled on his bed and we read a book – but the birthday boy was done.  I apologized to the kids and the moms and let Connor go back to his room and take a nap.  The others seemed un-phased and stayed another 45 minutes playing with all of Connor’s and Clara’s toys.

So while it was certainly not a picturesque first birthday party, I’m going to consider it a success.  More people came than we thought would show up and there was art, playing, food and napping involved.  Pretty much the definition of a good time, right? :)

Our six year old!