I find it hard to believe that I have been Cole's mom for seven years! Longer, if you include pregnancy, which I personally do include since I had the great fortune to spend every breathing second with him during those months. Cole's come so far since his grand traumatic entry to this world. He celebrated his 7th with twenty friends in our backyard doing crazy experiments and watching a wonderfully amusing science show put on by Dan and our friend Muse. The kids were in stitches and then completely wild banshees running around with cups full of disgusting goo and worms and bugs and electric green slime. I made Cole's cake...a horrible crumbling tower of red velvet volcano cake held together by absurd amounts of chocolate frosting oozing with red and sparkling orange lava! It was a definite kid hit! The whole party seemed fun. I remember my mom putting together home parties for my brother and I...There's something so nice about being at your own house with your friends and family and just playing...We didn't do anything fancy but the kids were happy, engaged and crazed the whole time. They made Sharpie marker tie-dyed "lab coats" to wear during the science stuff. Having the craft ended up being a terrific ice-breaker for new friends to ease into the festivities and gave the children something to do while everyone arrived. All in all a success...The boy loved it!
