Lucky Number 7

Today Aidan turned 7. Since it was an odd year (7) for him, he got to choose a party theme and invite some friends over. Pirates won over Legos, Star Wars and Power Rangers this year. It was a great time, complete with attacking crabs, pirate duds, balloon swords, a treasure hunt and chocolate cupcake ships.




Here are the cupcakes and treasure maps with compasses. The picture is super blurry (sorry Whitney) but it's the best one I got. I think you can still make out the cupcake cuteness... or fierceness as they were pirate cupcakes.



Here's Asher trying to steal some pirate booty before the guests arrived.



After finding treasure trapped within the evil crabs, the kids purchased pirate garb from "Ye Old Pirate Shop" run by Miss Daphne.



Aidan getting into character and Asher in full pirate duds with balloon sword.





The girls wouldn't hold still long enough to get their pictures taken. Daphne was busy organizing and facilitating, and Sophie was just busy. I do wish that I had been fast enough to get a picture of Sophie and the pinata. She beat the snot out of it. The biggest challenge of the morning was keeping Asher out of the pile of captured "evil crab" balloons. He kept taking flying leaps into the pile.



Bren made Aidan an amazing wooden sword and put together an electronics kit complete with motors, LEDs, batteries, wires and switches. They are planning to make a UFO out of wood and then light it all up with the LEDs. (Although Aidan is now adamant that Whitney should be involved - hint hint)





Happy Birthday Aidan!