party hardy

Two parties rounded out the weekend before the holiday.  The neighborhood mom's hosted a huge food spread and a tree full of Secret Santa gifts for all the neighborhood kids (pure chaos when they tried to open them all at once!) Aiden bounced on the little mini trampoline for about half of that party and even seemed to make some new friends (although he doesn't know any of their names). It was nice to see some familiar faces and I'm starting to feel more comfortable at every event. The gingerbread pumpkin bars I brought were kinda iffy, even though I thought they would be the perfect combo of two favorite flavors.

We rushed from that party to a birthday party for one of Aiden's school friends. She was hosting the Great Zucchini children's performer at her house. He's sorta a magician one man show, that just does a bunch of silly stuff to make the kids laugh (he claims there is a movie being made about his life with Owen Wilson playing him). Aiden loooved him and when he was called up the Great Zucchini said he doesn't usually call up kids that are dressed better than him (which wouldn't be difficult in his white tshirt) and he made a joke about Aiden looking like George Clooney which none of the kids understood. Then he pretended to get pennies out of Aiden's ears which was a hoot.