Max's Birthday Robot Party

Yeah, yeah, I know Max actually doesn't turn 6 until August, but the average age of guests at his party for the last few years has been around 70 (see last year's party). Because his birthday is in August, we always end up celebrating it in Canada with family instead of friends, and he has been talking for months about how he wants a birthday party with his friends. About a month ago, while I wasn't watching, he actually made invitations, complete with stamps, for an imaginary birthday party and tried to put them in the mailbox to go out (and wasted 5 stamps). Because I love this guy, and also because it is hard to gather together friends in August when everyone is out of town, we decided to have a party for him a few weeks ago, right after Kindergarten got out for the summer. He wanted a "Robot Party" and was very, VERY specific about what he wanted: 4 specific friends, a robot piñata, a cake that looked like the robot piñata, a game moving rocks with robot hands, robot juice boxes, and everyone to talk like a robot. I think he was satisfied.
Max with his Robot Cake that Hannah made. 

Hannah did an amazing job and it looked exactly like the piñata.

His little friends. One was in his kindergarten class, 1 is his cousin, and 2 are in our ward. Here they wrapped tin foil around themselves to look like robots. 

The day before Max made his sandwich look like a robot, and so we decided that is what we would have for lunch for the party.

The kids enjoyed their lunch and their robot juice boxes. (Just like at Mason's 7th birthday party).


Deb ordered some awesome party favors, including these robotic hands that the kids used to move chocolate rocks from one cup to the other (and then most of them spilled them all over the floor). 

I think Max forgot that you get presents at birthday parties, and he was so thrilled to receive this Lego set. 

There couldn't be a more happy boy. . .

Unless it was this one when he was left alone for a few minutes, climbed up on the kitchen table, and devoured the leftover cake!

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