Liam's 'friend' birthday party was yesterday. He wanted a karate theme so it was held at a dojo in town. I booked the party in December and when we showed up at the location, the doors were locked, the space was completely empty and there was a sign on the door from the landlord, saying that the business forfeited on their lease and owned $15,000. Yikes! Plan B was going to have twelve 8/9 year old boys at our house. Not ideal! Luckily one of the moms found the 'new' location and the karate guy came over to get us. The party started only 10 minutes late and went without any further hitches.
Did I say how happy I was we didn't have 12 wild boys at our house?
Afterwards our family went to dinner at the Broken Plate, a Greek restaurant that lets birthday kids break plates. Liam loved that.
Samurai sword to cut his cake