Ian's Birthday

Happy 7th Birthday to our fun-loving, good-natured, deep-thinking,

LEGO-loving, tow-headed boy!

Ian's been looking forward to another birthday since summer time.  For months, he's been giving me very specific birthday gift ideas, like Epic Dragon Battle, Shard the Ice Dragon, Lasha's Bite-Cylce, Fangpyre Wrecking Ball, or a number of other LEGO sets.  I'd listen politely but quickly dismiss the suggestions believing those ideas would change as his birthday grew closer and new toys fads would come and go.  But Ian is remarkably consistent and six months later he still only wanted a Ninjago LEGO set.

Fortunately, we've discovered there's some great places here in Hong Kong to get LEGO sets at fantastically low prices.  The inventory changes constantly and there's not a large selection of sets so it's hard to go with a specific purpose but as luck would have it, they had the Fangpyre Wrecking Ball.  

And as you can see, it made this boy very happy!  

He spent 2 diligent, uninterrupted hours carefully following the step-by-step instructions to put this special LEGO set together.

Ian is our master LEGO builder!

What better way to celebrate Ian's birthday then with a LEGO party and a few friends.  The boys played LEGO Bingo, 

created their own LEGO MiniFigure,

built all kinds of neat things with Ian's LEGOs,

opened presents,

and just had fun being together.

An added bonus to an already good birthday party was a special surprise guest - Ian's best friend from Macau.  He and his family were in Hong Kong for a little holiday vacation and they were able to come to the party and stay and visit for a few hours.  The boys had a great time being together again, just like old times.

Happy Birthday Ian!