Sunday, February 3, 2008

The Evolution of your birthday

When your a baby for your first birthday, you remember little if anything of that day. It's more a celebration for your parents of their new arrival. As a matter of fact most of the one year birthday parties i have attended were more for the parents then the childerns. Well maybe the early parts of the party like the a.m. parts till around I say like 6 or 5 p.m., is when the grown up tends to put all the childern to sleep or send them outside to play. Then it just turns into another gathering/ get to together they turn on their music and go out and get alcohol and ect. for their party. And then once you get alittle older and are able to recognize what is going on around you, your parents tends to give you themed parties. Like that of Barbie and Sponge Bob with the character displayed all over the house, on the cake, and any party decorations in sight. Also they start inviting other childern your age in or in that age range to come over to the house to help aid in your party. This kinda gets you into the mind frame of having parties with peolpe there to help you celbrate your big day. Your parents take pictures, record it wioth their camcorder, and make little goodie bags for you guests. Hoping that they have a good time and to come back again real soon. Then you start to head towards your pre-teen or young adult stage when you want to branch off more from your parents and start to try and plan your own party. You may or may not still want to maintian the theme trtadition of your birthday. And your parents appearance starts to become more scare, if they're even there. Your parties change from small gatherings of a bunch of little children to large celebrations with music, food, and maybe even live entertainment. Like that of house,slumber,dinner, and surprise parties, that may flood your child/young adulthood. So we have made a progression of sorts from your almost nono-existence first birthday party to more detailed and elaborate 16 and 18th birthday parties that you may never forget. Or you could end up being a busy body like me with a combination birthday , we go to the movies forst as a group, then later on that night we go out to eat, and finallt later on we go to a club and IHOP after to end the night off right. I don't really know why club goers love Waffle House and IHOP so much.

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