Time to Party

In case you didn't realize, we are officially entering the "meat" of the New York City birthday season.

[FYI - In NYC no one has babies in the summer. Well: at least everyone tries not to. Has to do with preshool entrance timing issues. It is a long story. ]

At any rate, Anna has gone to a bunch of parties this fall: Nya's, Sebastian's, Caroline's (see photo), and Sam's next weekend. So she is very up on the whole birthday party process.

Anna got the invitation from Sam after preschool one day. When we got home, we read it over. The last line said "No Gifts Please" (also common NYC practice). Anna looked confused for a moment and then asked no one in particular:

"Well then what does he want?"

We continued to ponder this over the next week or so, rereading the invitation several times. A few days ago, we had the same discussion. I'm not sure if Sam had mentioned something to her at preschool or not, because this time she had a solution...

"I think he wants money."

Right. Of course.

Mommy's birthday was last week. Anna had a few questions prior to the big day:

• "Are your friends coming over?"
• "What TV show [i.e. theme] do you want for your party?"

I guess those are better than the one she asked Jenny (born Jan 3rd). When Anna heard about this, I guess she decided to start right from square one and asked "So, you got any friends?".