Mr. President turned 8 this week and we had a grand time celebrating.  Our weekend was so full that it will take several blog posts to cover it all!  First was the birthday party.

 
To go along with his Halloween costume he decided on an Indiana Jones LEGO party.  Here is his LEGO cake complete with Indiana, bad guys and Indy’s favorite pests.  (Pretend it’s dark green please-I’m too cheap to buy anything but the standard food coloring.)  No, Mr. President has not even seen the Indiana Jones movies and only knows what he’s seen on the Lego website, but he’s still fascinated by the whip wielding hero of the 80’s.  Oh and to save yourself a lot of headache and hassle when planning a birthday party: Always check to make sure that a toy line has not been discontinued before you plan an entire party around it.
Discontinuance nevertheless, we had 8 little boys running wildly through our house searching for lost treasure just as Indiana Jones would.  It was truly crazy-on the verge of out of control most of the time, in fact.  But they had a blast.  They dug through sand in an archeological dig to find their party favors, they wrapped themselves up like mummies with toilet paper and then proceeded to have a tp fight that left our house strewn with toilet paper.   They found their treasure in a treasure box pinata hanging up in the garage.  What little boy doesn’t like to beat something to a pulp.  Unfortunately, I didn’t get any pictures of it because I was too busy making sure no one got killed by the swinging bat.   We did the real man’s kind of pinata instead of the new “safer” kind with pull strings.  But we do have this delightful video for your watching enjoyment so you can imagine what it was like. 
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=776250

I hope you are laughing hysterically.  No one was maimed at our party, but the boys had a great time!