birthdays galore

For some reason it seems that there are a LOT of January birthdays in Joshua's classroom. He was invited to 3 birthday parties over the span of 2 weekends which was overwhelming. I accepted 2 of the parties and declined the 3rd party because it was at Chuck E Cheese and I wouldn't be able to handle all that joy.

One party was at an indoor rock climbing place called Beach City Rocks. It had about 30 different levels varying from easy to expert. Since this was a birthday party for a 6 year old, we were at the easy level. Joshua wasn't too eager to try rockclimbing; he tried last summer and froze about 3 feet off the ground. I was hoping he didn't remember that time but he did. So like a good mom I pleaded and begged and when he wasn't going for it, I said you can climb to the purple rock (about halfway up the wall) otherwise you won't get any pizza. Hey, it worked. Joshua climbed to the purple rock and when he was on solid ground, he immediately wanted his pizza. Okay.
See that biggish purple rock , just to the right of Josh's head? That was his goal.

Then he needed help getting down. Josh didn't understand that he had to keep his legs in front of him so they sent someone to help.

See how much he loves climbing? He is frozen in place....yeah, we won't be doing this again for a long time.