Birthday Par-tay!

TerraDactyl attended a birthday party this weekend.  There were 4 kids:  TerraDactyl (3 yo), two 4 year olds, and a 5 year old.  We had told TerraDactyl we'd be going to her friend's house for her birthday and she was very excited leading up to it.  We probably dropped the ball a bit because it didn't occur to me to explicitly state that there would be other kids there, too.  Anyways, we showed up and TerraDactyl just went straight to the corner of the family room where there were some particular toys that she liked and just played by herself for like 90 minutes.  Well, she did try to make me stay with her.  I stayed for a bit, but I thought maybe she'd be more likely to leave the corner if I wasn't there.  She wasn't exactly upset when I left.  

It was time for lunch and she said she wasn't hungry.  Everybody ate lunch while TerraDactyl just kept playing by herself in the corner.  She came over to ask me something and stole a couple blueberries and cashews off my plate and then went back to playing.  DH finally got her to take a potty break, which lasted for a while.  It was perfect timing.  She missed the cake.  I had thought about baking her a vegan cupcake or something, but ran out of time.  But since she didn't actually eat any of her own birthday cake, I figured we'd be ok.  But by the time she came out of the bathroom, everybody was done with cake (except DH - we'd saved him a piece).  She just went back to playing by herself.  She wasn't in the corner anymore, but she was still on the edge of the kids' play.  

Eventually, the other three kids started a game of chase, and TerraDactyl did tag along on the end of that train.  She also kind of interacted with the other kids in that she'd wait until they weren't jumping on the trampoline before she'd jump on it.  Sort of a taking turns by default thing.  When it was time to leave, TerraDactyl told us to go home and leave her there.  Then she asked for a hot dog (what we had for lunch).  So we grabbed one for her to eat in the car.  We also took home a bunch of left over corn on the cob (party favors!).  TerraDactyl ate her hot dog before we'd even left town and asked for another one, which we didn't have.  But we had packed a ton of snacks, so she ate some of them.  For dinner that night she ate THREE corn on the cobs!  You can see the size in the picture, so they weren't full cobs, but still.  She's a fan.  This was the first time she'd ever eaten corn off the cob.  

Also, crazy straws are still a thing.  And apparently, kids still love them.  TerraDactyl was certainly excited about hers in her party favor bag.  

And here, TerraDactyl is taking all her friends for a drive in the car her daddy made for her.  

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