Back to the Home Depot

Just like his brother, Adler had his birthday party this year at Home Depot. I have to admit it's a pretty nice venue for a kid's party, if the kids are into building or constitution at all.  And it seems like most are. Home Depot provides a room and little building kits for each of the kids as well as someone to walk the kids though assembling the kit (though parent assistance is still needed). And they provide all that for free, which is kind of nice. So you just need to show up with a cake and some snacks and drinks. And clean up is relatively easy. It doesn't take all the stress out of the birthday party experience but it's a pretty good way to go and the kids really seem to really enjoy it.

Adler was very serious about putting the right amount of sprinkles in just the right places on his cake. This was the second cake that Kari baked that day but that's a different story.

Heading out to the Home Depot.

Adler chose to make toolboxes at his party. We got there a bit early to set up and it was a little hard to wait to get started.

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail (paraphrasing Maslow's law of the instrument, of course).

I guess if you get a bunch of young kids together in a little room and give each of them a hammer, at least a few tears are kind of inevitable. 

I'm not sure why but Adler was very worried that the other kids would blow out the candles. Maybe because he and LT had recently insisted on blowing out the candles on Baba's birthday cake. Everything turned out okay with the candles though.

Another nice thing is being able to use the big Home Depot shopping carts to help bring things in and out from the party. The boys wanted to carry their own newly constructed and painted tool boxes though.