Blog | Party Time!
Yesterday Brianna went to a birthday party for her buddy Hawke (many of you have heard her talk about “Hawke and Max”). Hawke is turning two and invited his school buddies to a local play center with lots of large inflatable play areas (like Monkey Joe’s). Brianna was a little skittish at first – she would not climb up the steps to go down the slide, but she would go in the bouncy part and bounce around (she still has not quite gotten the hang of jumping, but she is a good “butt-bouncer”!). Her buddies were good sports and stopped every now and then to bounce with her before they moved onto the slide. Eventually, she got curious enough to check out the slide. Once she decided she could do it and wanted to do it, she was off!
After doing that for a while, she decided to check out the BIG slides. She even climbed part of the way up one of them all by herself (before deciding it would be easier if I carried her up). Here she is at the top of the batman slide!
After an hour or so of bouncing, running, and sliding, it was time to go to the party room for pizza and cake. Hawke, the birthday boy, is the one looking at the camera.
After refueling, all the kids started playing with their toy cars (Hawke’s birthday party theme was the Pixar movie Cars). Brianna had a great time zoom-zoom-zooming the cars around!
Before we left, Brianna gave Hawke a big happy birthday hug!
Despite the fact that she only got one nap yesterday (she still generally takes two), I thought she did a great job dealing with all the noise and lights and large number of strange people. I am sure having her “school buddies” there along with lots of fun bouncy areas to play on helped a lot. 
