Happy half-birthday to B!

Poor B.  M and I were extremely poor planners when it came to that whole get-pregnant and have-a-baby thing.  His birthday is Christmas Eve, when it is VERY hard to get all your friends to come to a party.  To make up for our bad planning, we started having half-birthdays when he was three and a half.  On his actual birthday, we just have a small party for family.  The half-birthday is when we have the big bash with all his friends.

This year, B requested a rollerskating party.  He had gone rollerskating earlier this summer and loved it.  So a rollerskating party it was.  The rink even gave him a free pair of skates as a birthday gift!

Here's the half-birthday dude looking like a pro on skates:

And here are the three musketeers (B and his two best friends from school):

Here's one of the musketeers looking particularly angelic:

This little guy is the younger brother of the third musketeer, the one seated in the middle in the two pictures above:

I think B considers him sort of an honorary little brother.  He's very protective of the little guy, and genuinely likes him.

And this is our friends' daughter.  A lot of Z's pretty clothes are hand-me-downs from this very fashionable young lady.

I had forgotten how much fun rollerskating is!  It had been at least 25 years since I'd been on rollerskates and I was pretty rusty, but there's something very soothing about it.

Happy birthday sweet B.  I love you!