A Two for One Birthday - We Made it Through

This year we did something monumentally huge! We had a birthday party for both L and S - one that was not combined.

This was the first time.

When the girls were younger we would combine their parties. Between the two of them we had the size of one party - it worked out great.

Then L began to have friends, and people would come to a party. S continued to be overwhelmed at just the concept of her birthday. One year S brought her aunt to be her special friend and we went to the American Doll store.

This year she turned 12, and I decided that we would try a sleepover. In total we invited five girls - one was her cousin. The other three we knew from church. One girl could not come - she still had a party of four girls, three of which spent the night (including S).

Leading up to her birthday things kind of started to escalate. She stopped sleeping at night, never a good thing. After the party she spent a week yelling and throwing, general meltdown mode. We are finally starting to get past that - thankfully.

It was my intention to have L's party the weekend before S's party. She wanted to take a friend to the Lego movie. L has a good friend a church, and a good friend at school. She also has an on and off good friend at school. We invited all three, two could come.

While my sister was monitoring the slumber party I took three eight/nine year olds to see the Lego movie. In order to hang with L her friends have to be goofy and hyper. So I took three girls who are very much like my daughter to see the Lego movie.

Surprisingly they were AMAZING. I got popcorn (no butter) for them to share - her friends were a bit baffled at the no candy. They did not notice long. Why they did not exactly sit still for the whole movie, they were as still as I have ever seen them. They all gave the Lego movie two huge thumbs up.

Me? I thought it was the most ridicules movie ever. It was so cheesy - they made it cheesy on purpose. On the soundtrack they have four versions of the same song - which basically is just four lines over and over and over and over again.

When it comes out on DVD - we may actually buy that one (as long as I do not have to see it again).

One more year down. I still have ten glorious months until Christmas.