Samuel's 9th Birthday

Samuel's birthday was on a Friday this year. His class also put on a small play that day. It was called "Character Matters" and the kids portrayed different storybook characters coming to complain to the "Fairy Tale Advice Council" about the wrongs committed in their particular stories.



It was cute and made some points about behavior and conflict resolution. Samuel played the Giant from "Jack and the Beanstalk" and he complained to the council that Jack broke into his house and stole his stuff. Just because he was a giant, didn't mean he was bad and even if he had been mean, that didn't give Jack the right to take his stuff. Yeah, it really put a whole different spin on the fairy tales, and was hilarious!







We don't do big birthday parties every year, and this was a quieter year. The birthday person gets to pick what to have for dinner and what kind of dessert. My kids don't like cake all that much so we usually do big ice cream sundaes in the special "birthday sundae cup"



Samuel got some books he wanted, a new Bakugan, a cool Magic the Gathering card and a whole box of full of Bionicle parts. He was thrilled! He liked all of his gifts, but the Bionicles fascinated him for a couple of weeks. He still loves them, but the constant walking around with parts in his hands has subsided.