Charles’ birthday party is over. It was a sleep over with three friends (Josie, Mason, and Colin). The party was basically unstructured play time. They alternated between the Wii and fighting in the basement. Corwin let them borrow his light saber and they had a lot of fun in the basement with that while the lights were turned out (that thing is so bright that it lit up the basement all by itself).
We fed them pizza and cake. Charles made them wait for the cake by taking a long time to blow out the candle. His friends offered to help when I said “nobody is getting any cake until Charles blows out the candle” but this seemed to be enough to push Charles over the edge.
All of the guests came with hand made cards for Charles, in honor of the special invitations he made. There was even one from Josie’s sister Kennis, even though she wasn’t invited. It read, in part, “Dear Kennis; Sorry I wrote my own name but I don’t know how to spell ‘Charles’”. The other cards were entertaining as well.
Oddly, there were some complaints from the boys about staying up too late, so we put them to bed at 10. Except that Colin and Mason came back down after a while demanding a snack (and because the dishwasher noise was keeping them up).
The morning after was basically the same. I took some video of the boys which they thought were cool, especially Colin. He made me do another take in the morning which turned out a little better because enough light came through the window that you could see things other than the light saber.
We had some fun with static electricity and balloons, rubbing them in hair and then sticking them to the ceiling. I showed Charles that his sister had some utility in that her longer hair was much better at generating static electricity. At one point I let the boys do the William Tell thing with nerf darts and a balloon statically stuck to the top of my head.
Charles admitted later that he had a good time.
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