jethrien

ARR wanted a truck birthday again this year. This time, though, he's old enough to invite his own friends instead of ours. So we had three other kids from school come over.

I'll admit I'm feeling a little smugly self-congratulatory. We did a really good job of putting together this party. We had little wooden trucks for everyone to paint and take home as their favors. I came up with "Truck Bingo", which was wildly successful. (Different kinds of trucks instead of numbers; everyone had the same trucks, just in a different order so no one would get upset if they didn't have a given truck; Skittles for counters and when you filled a row, you could eat all the Skittles in the row; we kept going until we pulled all the trucks, so everyone got to eat exactly 16 Skittles in the end.) I got multiple yellow plastic tablecloths and decorated them with road lines of duct tape, and we just whisked off the tablecloth and replaced it each time there was a mess.

And I made a bulldozer cake that I'm really proud of. The body is dairy-free banana cake, and the wheels and blade are actually Rice Krispie treats.