Happy Birthday to you…
1 Feb
The tri-birthday madness is coming to an end in the Mulhern house. We had my 30th (I am so old), Noah’s 6th and Tom is 31 is on Friday. (Actually, Tom is just turning 29, but he always makes fun of me that I am older, so on here I can make fun of him and he can’t do anything about it. I am such a nice wife).
I went a little nutty with Noah’s birthday. I made almost everything in the goodie bags, including the Yoda finger puppets pictured above. Noah wanted a “Lego Starwars” birthday extravaganza. I made little bags and stenciled a Lego man on the front that Tom had cut out and designed. So, were were doing so good with the “handmade” birthday party.
Then we decided to go to CHUCK E. CHEESE.
Chuck E. Cheese is the opposite of the Compact. It turns children in to gambling addicted terrors. I am being a bit over dramatic, but I can say with no hesitation that we will NEVER be doing another birthday party there again. It is so wasteful and chaotic and awful. Noah cried when Chuck sang happy birthday to him. It was really scary. I felt like crying too.
All that being said, the children will look back at the time when Noah had that awesome birthday at Chuck E. Cheese. Noah still wears the crown that he got there around the house, and we didn’t lose one child from the party. (I counted 7 heads about 200 times in a two hour period).
Noah the Birthday king
I am in awe of your craftiness, Malora Mulhern!
And I’m also laughing at Tom for being 31. He’s so old! Just kidding, since I’m older than both of you. Combined. Just kidding about the “combined” part.
I have many many memories of at least two birthdays at Chuck E. Cheeses. Many. Most of them involve child addicted gambling and listening to the clicking sounds that the animatronic mice and other animals made as they performed!
But they are some of the only birthdays I remember from being a kid. They were awesome from the perspective of a child. The pizza was awesome, the bottomless pitchers of pop, the little prizes we cashed our tickets in for after figuring out how to cheat the bowling game. I wish I could have been there as a fly on the wall and offered some support!
Happy Birthday to the trifecta of Mulherns celebrating!
I love love love the finger puppets! And the past handful of my nieces and nephews birthdays have been at Chuck’s and I always leave feeling so stressed and sad. Not a good place.