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3 Andrews on Andrew’s 8th Birthday

3 Andrews on Andrews Birthday

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To celebrate Andrew’s eighth birthday we went out to Mackie’s for the birthday breakfast. My dad takes us out on our birthdays and I started doing that with my own kids. Although, he ended up taking us both out this morning.

Andrew was funny, he tried a whole bunch of different jellies on his toast and then on his shirt and pants. Can’t take the kid anywhere but he has fun. He also ordered Hot Chocolate and when it arrived it had about 6 inches of Whipped Cream on top. He loved digging his spoon into the whipped cream and eating it. Then waited until the Hot Chocolate was lukewarm. I said that it was basically chocolate milk and he got all upset. He doesn’t like chocolate milk. When he was born he had a milk allergy and never developed a taste for it. Not even for chocolate milk. I did not realize that this statement would upset him so. I had to reassure him that it was not, in fact, chocolate milk. However, if they made it with milk (which they most likely did not) it was chocolate milk after-all.

I dropped Andrew and Dad off and then went home for a Twitter Party. Once that was over I was finishing up a few things and Allison texted me to let me know that people who were supposed to come and help out in Andrew’s class had to cancel. I headed back tot he school and helped the kids make some Native American medallions in their centers. Andrew was surprised to see me there. The kids had a nice time making all sorts of things like totem poles, dream catchers, medallions and turkey hats for Thanksgiving.

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Andrew’s Karate Birthday Party

Eva on the Obstacle Course
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Andrew has had several karate birthday parties. This was his third but his first at the America’s Best Defense in North Attleboro. He had his 5th, 6th and 8th birthday’s at karate studios and they are always a good time. We were thinking of what to do for Andrew’s birthday and I got a message that our ABD was doing free parties in November. So, I grabbed the last spot and we got it set up.

We invited all the kids in his class as well as the cousins. We had 17 kids at the party and they had so much fun. They started out with a dodge game where the black belts tossed pads at the kids and they ran around and around. Then they got to settle down and then do some learning of karate moves. I even got to help out and swing a foam sword at the kids so they could do some blocking.

then the kids had pizza and then had a big surprise. The big surprise was an obstacle course over in the Krav Maga dojo. The nice thing about ABD was that they have two dojos and the obstacle course was a complete surprise. The kids totally loved it.

Then the kids went back to the table for the cake cutting. The great thing about the cake cutting is that the cake is cut with a sword.

Sword Cake

Andrew was all smiles as he cut his cake. I recorded it happening so didn’t get the best photo. I did get that good one of Eva doing the obstacle course. She absolutely loved doing kicks and more. Andrew loved having all his friends around and it was a good day.