Birthday Party

I took Cooper to Brayden's 5th birthday yesterday. Cooper and Brayden are best buddies at school and end up in trouble together all the time. Everytime I pick him up at school, it's always "Well, Cooper and Brayden did this...and had to put their heads down" or something like that...Generally they are good boys, they just rough house a little to much for the class. Brayden's dad is in the process of trying to be come a Shriner and does the whole clown thing but was just dad today. Brayden is picking it up as well so there were tons a balloons and some balloon animals and whatnot.

Enjoying the cake...Everyone else wolfed theirs down and starting playing again while Cooper is a little bit more strategical when eating cake. He takes the time to eat all the frosting off first, then gets in to the cake itself so he took a little more time before going to play.

There was a piñata where instead of beating it open, everyone pulled a string and one of the strings would open the bottom for all the goodies to pour out. As luck would have it, everyone that pulled a string had one of the dummy strings and that left just the magic one. Brayden grabbed a hold and yanked and with a little help from mom, everything fell to the floor. The kids all scrambled for stuff with the exception of Cooper. He was taking his time in putting stuff in his bag kind of only picking out the stuff that he wanted rather than just grabbing for everything. That kid amazes me with his politeness and cautiosness in not hurting others feelings with his actions.

Brayden started doing what he could to try and make some balloon figures. Most of them turned out as just a loop of a hat but he'll get it in time I'm sure.

This was one that had a bunch of potential. It was supposed to be a parrot that he attached to Cooper's arm. It was really a cool gesture and with more practice and learning, he and his dad are going to have one cool talent that makes people happy.