Hi guys, it's Elias. Do you want to hear about my seventh birthday?
I was so excited about the new Disney "Planes" movie coming out. I wanted to include a fighter jet from the movie in the theme of my birthday party. The plane I chose is "Echo" the Fighter Jet. I also read the book, "Fantastic Mr. Fox" by Roald Dahl and love it. I had the idea to combine those two things into one great party. My mom and I designed this drawing for the invitation...
I was so excited about the new Disney "Planes" movie coming out. I wanted to include a fighter jet from the movie in the theme of my birthday party. The plane I chose is "Echo" the Fighter Jet. I also read the book, "Fantastic Mr. Fox" by Roald Dahl and love it. I had the idea to combine those two things into one great party. My mom and I designed this drawing for the invitation...
The toy library is a place where we can rent toys for two weeks at a time. They had a fox suit! I was so excited to wear it to my party. We turned a yellow shirt inside out and made it into a good Mr. Fox shirt. My Papaw drew a Mr. Fox on a piece of cardboard and cut it out. We played a game with it called "Shoot the Tail Off the Fox." (You'll understand why we played that game if you read the book.) We used a Nerf gun to try and shoot "tails" made out of streamers off the Mr. Fox. It was a cool game. My mom also made a fun scavenger hunt for us. Mini Reese cups were the prize! It was fun to share them with friends here because they are not very popular in New Zealand. Yum.
We like making a pinata for our birthday parties, and this year I thought we would try and make "Echo." We filled it with candy and had a great time breaking him open. For a while I wasn't sure I wanted to smash him because he was so cool. We also used a fighter jet on the cake, this time it was "Bravo."
We have made some good friends here in Gisborne and I could invite 6 of them. (Including my brother, it was seven, since I was turning seven.) We have a great but small back yard and so we thought a bounce house would be a fun thing for us seven kids to play on during the party. I hope you enjoy these pictures from my party. I wish I could have invited all my American (and Taupo) friends and family to my party too. Hopefully telling you about it is a small way we can share it. I had a super awesome seventh birthday. It made it even better that my Memaw and Papaw were able to come!
We have made some good friends here in Gisborne and I could invite 6 of them. (Including my brother, it was seven, since I was turning seven.) We have a great but small back yard and so we thought a bounce house would be a fun thing for us seven kids to play on during the party. I hope you enjoy these pictures from my party. I wish I could have invited all my American (and Taupo) friends and family to my party too. Hopefully telling you about it is a small way we can share it. I had a super awesome seventh birthday. It made it even better that my Memaw and Papaw were able to come!