Home style Birthday party

We started the day with our little Kung Fu class. Wei tzu and her mom came too, took pictures and even followed along with some self defense moves. Noah and Jonah were slow to start but fell into line even before Nathaniel showed up. The main thing was, they wanted to do Kung Fu around the tree and hit the pad. I guess it's not so much that they need other kids to be part of the class. It's just that there are certain aspects of class that they like better than others. We did the songs and lion dance. I have actually developed away to use lion dance moves as a simple self defense and so we did that. Nathaniel's parents were very impressed actually by how well Wei Tzu and her mom did those particular moves. My theory is that watching Kung Fu soap opera's helps you pick up the moves.
After that we walked around part of the pond, throwing rocks in the water. We ran over a very large and hungry caterpillar. It caused a big commotion because several children ran over to look at it. I moved it over to the grass so that it had a better chance of surviving, but honestly I doubt it will turn into a butterfly or moth. More likely some other animal will eat it.
Then we headed home and had our home style birthday. The only children there were Jonah and Noah. But there were enough adults to make it a party, and since everyone was paying attention to them, it kind of made it a better party than having a ton of kids. We had pizza and pasta and cake. Then did a Japanese sushi/candy kit just like on RRCherrypie's youtube videos. Only not as good and very stressful. But still the candy was made. Then we painted rocks and opened presents. It was pretty fun for the kids, and tiring for me just watching. I'm not sure why but even though I was only taking pictures for the Japanese candy making thing, I was really worn out afterward. I bathed the kids and then I actually headed out to a lion dance for a wedding at the aquarium. That was pretty cool. If the kids were older they could have come too. But even as it was it was cool.