I know that every year it's hard to believe your children are another year older, but 6 is different. I don't really know why. Six is like the beginning of the new year, when you keep writing the old year on accident. I keep catching myself saying Rowan is 5 years old.
For the past two years, I've been trying to convince either of the boys to have a space themed birthday party. I've collected stickers and favors and decorations to go along with the space theme over that span of time, because, well, I like space.
I finally got Rowan on board this year, begrudgingly. It's not that he doesn't like space. He loves space. But I think they like the flashiness of a birthday party theme based on the latest popular cartoon/movie/game. Party stores know this....obviously.
As the party day approached, I surprisingly felt uninspired by my space themed party collection. Weird. And since Rowan had an overall pretty shitty year of being 5, I decided I was going to surprise him with a Slugterra themed party!
What's Slugterra, you say? Oh, just a very serious animated series about a world beneath ours where people (and other beings) practice "Slug Fu", a sort of shooting slugs (the slimy kind) in a such a way that they transform and wound your opponent.
It's strange. And kind of obscure, really. Not too many kids seem to watch it. But Rowan does. He LOVES it.
Oddly, I was more inspired by this theme, which has absolutely no ready-made decorations, favors, or games available for purchase so we had to get creative. Maybe that's what drew me to it.
Boys and girls hunt for the elusive Infunus slug.
Grammy led the Ooblek-making for partiers to earn their Jellyish slug
And popping balloons to get their Bubbleone slug
Happy 6th Birthday, Rowan!
~Sarah
Way to Slug it out. Cool ideas you came up. Mural is awesome!
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