photos: noah's birthday party

this year, as always, aaron made something awesome for noah's birthday party--a big wooden racetrack that starts on our front porch and heads to the fence.  it had a loop-the-loop that crossed lanes, ramps, an elasticized drop-down starting line, and a finish line drawn by noah.  it was meant for racing lego race car creations made by noah and his friends at the party, but it was soon realized that hot wheels cars are much faster.  very much fun was had by all.

aaron also made the lego cakes.  they involve six marshmallow pieces on top dyed in food coloring.  i was stressing out about how i was going to pull it off, and aaron said "let me handle it."  and he did, so very well!

in general, i don't recommend hosting a birthday party two weeks after having a baby.  but grandma was crucially helpful in the goodie-bag making.  she made very cool lego-shaped bags, filled with little chocolate lego men, lego brick candies, lego brick crayons and a little coloring book that the kids and i made.  if you're thinking of hosting a lego birthday party, there are PLENTY of online resources available.  ours was so tame compared to some.  you can imagine!

but we had a pretty happy six year old boy.  he spent the rest of the day building and rebuilding his many new lego sets, while the rest of us polished off the lego cake.

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