Even being two weeks prior to Christmas, Mason’s December birth date is a pain to schedule. Due to after school performances and Holiday gatherings, getting kids to show up for a mid-December birthday party can be tough. Occasionally that causes us to spread Mason’s birthdays out over multiple days, as was the case this year.

Mason’s birthday weekend began Thursday night at the Thunder/Cleveland game.

These are, by far, the best Thunder tickets we’ve ever purchased. We were just a few rows away from the court, directly behind the goal. Next time we may purchase some a few seats to the left or right, but they were still pretty darn good. Mason had a good time (despite the fact that LeBron James didn’t play), and our friend Howard who came along with us bought us dinner at Five Guys, drinks at the game, and hooked us up with a sweet parking spot.

Friday was Mason’s actual birthday, and we had breakfast for him at Jimmy’s Egg. Mason got his birthday present from his granny there, which he took to school and took a picture of. “It’s exactly the one I wanted,” he said.

Mason said three of his friends also had horse head masks and they were all going to bring them for Friday’s dodgeball tournament (The Four Horsemen?) The other three either chickened out or had more sensible parents than Mason. He told me later he only got punched twice while wearing it.

Mason’s birthday party was Saturday night, but Saturday day, had had a basketball game.

Mason missed two shots and made two, one of those being one of his monster 3’s. BUT — no time to celebrate! We drove directly from the YMCA to Laser Quest, where a dozen of Mason’s friends ate pizza, cake, and played laser tag for a couple of hours.

Sunday was the last of Mason’s festivities — a hamburger lunch with our family.

By the afternoon, everybody (including Mason) was tired of celebrating his birthday.