My R is 7! We had a "Fantastic Mr. Fox" party on August 28. We showed the movie in the backyard as soon as it got dark. There were cousins and school friends and neighbor friends and their siblings.
They all made up their own games and ran around in the backyard until it got too dark to see. Then we started the movie.
Friends in the sunflowers.
Banner with all the "Fantastic Mr. Fox" characters.
The favors were bags of Mrs. Bean's Famous Nutmeg Ginger Apple Snaps. If you've seen the movie, you'll know that these figure prominently.
She hates being the center of attention. But everyone is singing Happy Birthday, and it's for you! In every birthday picture since she was three, she's had some version of this I hate it/I love it expression.
Cutting the cake.
The girls.
And the boys.
Rapt attention. It was pitch-dark--these are flash photos. D built a giant movie screen from scrap wood and painted it white, and we hung a sheet over it.
Mr. Fox!
Birthday girl.
Christmas lights in the trees!
After everyone left at 10:30, we sat on the back deck and watched the stars. Charlie relaxed in the dark with a bone and a tennis ball.
We let the birthday girl fall asleep in a deck chair. When she woke up (in her own bed), she was seven.
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