John and His Police Car

 

We were traveling on John's birthday as well and I told him we would go somewhere special for his birthday when we got home.  He chose the inflatable bouncy place.  There is one in the next town over, ten miles away (have I mentioned the lack of birthday venues in our town) but it was only open on the weekends for birthday parties - no open jump time.  So we drove to one in San Jose (25-30 miles away) that was open for us on Saturday.  John had lots of fun.  We jumped in one big room for a while.

Then we got to move into the glow jump room.

John and Emma thought it was scary at first but they got used to it I think.

John walking around

Anna climbing a mountain thing

We had lots of fun there.

Back at home we had a few police themed games

Pin the badge on the policeman

We had a Paw Patrol piñata.

John told the ladies at church the next day that he had a "Chase" piñata for his birthday.  Many of them immediately knew it was Paw Patrol.  I was impressed. I didn't even know that dog's name before hand.  I'm learning so much.  :)

Poor Chase

There's Anna's old owl piñata on the ground too.

We had lots of cupcakes leftover from Anna's party (I made lots on purpose for all the celebrating)

I know I am biased but John was so cute.  He was really excited when we sang to him.

He solved a police mystery to find his presents.  He has been asking for this Cozy Coupe police car for months and months.  He finally got it.  He was so happy.

Matthew was purposely looking creepy for this photo

He opened some other presents and we ate cupcakes.

And then Scott kindly assembled the police car.  John asked him every fifteen seconds or so if it was ready yet.  Here's John driving it around.  He asked if he could drive it to church the next day.  After going on a few car rides with it outside he also told me that he wished his police car was faster.  I think he may have expected it to drive like a real car, but he is still very happy with it and plays with it for many hours each day.  And also people have to fight over it daily.  Sigh.  We're working on that.  Happy Birthday John!!!