Jadon's 8th Birthday!!

Table set-up

Jadon's 8th Birthday and Party was on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011 @ his local community center.  Looking at the date of this blog, you can see I am a little late posting it.  I finally copy a few more pictures I needed from the video:

Musical chairs and Prize set-up

Caught Jadon with a big mouth full

He caught us!

Figure 8 Track for 8th Birthday

Jadon gets the first slice

Time for gifts

Game time (musical chairs)

Jadon completely left this chair.

Friend gives up his seat for birthday boy

Did a good deed for the day!

Musical Chair winners

Table Races

Jadon wins the race but gives his prize to friend

Prize # 4

Prize winner #5

Prize winner #6

Prize winner # 7

Prize winner #

From Jason

From Jason

From Deborah

From the mail

From Mom and Dad

From Oma (Granda in Germany)

From Carlton

From Cj, Mike and John (5 game bought)

After the party, Reuben took us to an open parking lot so Jadon can release his balloons.  He had 3, but one took off ahead of the others.  The "1 to grow on".  So the two balloons in Jadon's hands mean:

Good-bye age 7

Hello age 8

Age 8 -- Hot Wheels Room

Age 3 - 7 Jadon had a Sesame Street Room.  He just had his 8th birthday and demanded that his room be changed to a "big kid" room.  He chose HOT WHEELS.  I didn't have to change the room color so it was pretty easy.  Here is Jadon's new room so far; (The borders were cut from the table covers used for his birthday party!)

Weekend of Wheels with Dad

Jadon had a pretty awesome weekend with his dad.  On Saturday, (1/22/11), Reuben took Jadon to the park where Jadon could play with his remote control helicopter, remote control motorcycle, and remote control car (you could imagine the amount of batteries).  He then took him to an empty parking lot where Jadon sat on his lap and controlled the wheel of the truck.

After that, they were scheduled to go to the Advance Auto Parts: Monster Truck Jam at 7pm but we postponed it for Feb. 5.  Two hours before the event, we received a phone call from my brother-in-law, Frank, whom offered us 3 FREE tickets to the event.  An offer we could not refuse.  I was so excited and we all had a blast!

Winterland of Gingerbread

Today Jadon and I attended a POD field trip to Main Event for the Winterland of Gingerbread hosted by TXVA. Once we arrived and signed in, we were given a wristband to play as much bowling as we like:

 The place was pretty empty when we first arrived, but it quickly filled up.  Jadon found a couple of kids to play bowling with us. He was having a blast! 

After bowling a few rounds, we took a break to vote on the best gingerbread house and take a few pictures in front of the giant gingerbread. Doesn't he look like a little politician?



Next we sat down to eat some pizza. It cost about $13 for two personal size pizza's and 1 drink.  I just love these pictures of Jadon. He is such a gentleman:

And then he is himself. . .SILLY!!!!!!

After eating we played about 2 more rounds of bowling. You can see that the place was starting to fill up with other home-school families. These events are wonderful!!!

The score was tied 3 ways by 53. 

And here, Jadon wins the game!!

After bowling, we went to the arcade section and played $6 worth of games it came out to about 4 1/2 games.  It is NOTHING like Chuck E. Cheese's were every game cost a quarter.  

Happy Holiday's Texas Virtual Academy.

See you next year!!!!