I am happy to report that we survived our 9 year old’s friend birthday party! We’re talking about 9 boys ages 7 to 9 plus our 11 year old (he was easy though) all thrown into one pizza parlor for a birthday party involving Pizza, Candles, Cake, Video Games and gifts! This could be lethal! But, like I said . . . we survived.
The dynamics of little boys at this stage is fascinating though! There is, of course, the usual silliness and somewhat obnoxious or annoying behavior, but there’s a lot more to it than that. There is the leaders and the followers, the clowns and the quiet (though that is fairly rare in a group this size of boys who are so familiar with one another), and then there are the crazies! It is funny how one or two hyper little boys can ignite an entire group! But I digress!
This is the first time we have really done an all out just friends party for any of our sons, so we left the twins home and tromped down the hill to our favorite local pizza joint that had reserved us a room and awaited the onslaught of little boys. They arrived one by one slowly but surely. A couple of parents stayed, but most of them decided to run a quick errand at a local store.
Well, to make a long story a little shorter it lasted a total of an hour and a half and I was pretty exhausted when all was said and done. So now we are free until the family party for 2 of the boys in 2 weeks – the dynamics are totally different since there are almost an equal number of adults to children.