Mikaela’s 6th birthday party

Yesterday was the final phase of Mikaela’s birthday extravaganza celebration. Seventeen of her current kindergarten classmates, plus three of her old preschool buddies and Jonathan took over Elite Gymnastics for a couple of hours. As the oldest kid in her class – and therefore with the first birthday of the year – we didn’t want to be the first ones to make any of her classmates feel excluded, so we invited the whole gang. It looks like we’re lucky so far – they didn’t really break up into cliques, all of the kids seemed to play well together.

The kids had a blast in the foam pits, the treehouse, the long slide, the bounce house, and especially the zip line. With 22 kids plus a few adults at the party, Mikaela’s traditional princess birthday cake gained a ballroom floor and a red carpet. The guests all enjoyed the ice cream and cake, and Mikaela came home with quite the birthday haul. She seems especially excited about her new Barbie collection. Now we can start deflating for a bit – at least until we start gearing up for Jonathan’s second birthday here in a couple of months.