The birthday blog, extended version...

So, yes, we held out to the very end, hoping he would change his mind, because there really is not a thing you can easily find in the party store to support it, but the request remained clear - TRASH TRUCK PARTY!!!

So, way too late the invitations read:
Its a trash bash
Collection time:
Collection site: the Nilsen dump
Billing inquiries, etc:

It's actually quite obvious, how all pre-school boys' birthdays should be, as it turns out - no more cleaning up before the party, just trashing down!!!
First activity was "smush the gush" (home made play-doh), abhorrent to some, but others got stuck right in...
The most successful activity was one grandma thought up on the spot - for future reference it's called "Make the Trash", aka "tear the sunday paper to pieces and throw it up in the air", and it was HUGE, for all age groups...
Next up, "tack the trash on the trash truck" (and we ask you please to note the recycled use made of the sunday paper), a long wait for some, but a big hit especially for the mom, who got tons and tons of kudos from children and grown-ups alike for drawing a mega trash truck ...
Not quite sure what this cute couple was looking at, but they were caught in the middle of some tremendous excitement, and that was kind of cute...
...and here's trouble, Lars and the two Jonahs very politely listening to the instructions for "Race to recycle" the most elaborate of the activities, and probably a little too complex for the two-three year old set - the trash got sorted correctly for the most part, but the whole "back behind the line and bring one piece at the time" concept got well and truly lost in translation - come on, seriously daddy, who recycles one piece of trash at the time? You take it all to the cans and recycle it right there, it's that easy!
Cecilie striking the fatal blow to the poor trash truck pinata (not strictly by the book this approach, but highly effective...) Check the slo-mo action shot of the dads keeping Jonah C's head out of the line of fire.
Grabbing for loot...
It might not be apparent to the dear readership what a chocolate rainbow cake has to do with trash trucks, but Lars was insisting on both and who is to deny a birthday boy his wishes? And not just any rainbow cake: "a COSCO (sic) cake, Mommy. Only a COSCO cake"
...we're quite sure his wishes came through...
The party goers digging in...
Some gratuitous Lars "photograph" shots... you could argue he's got the wrong end of the posing stick, or just agree with us that it is somewhat hilarious - we're building quite the collage for later presentation...

...and in the middle of it all, Jonah C was MOST content being chief Railroad Engineer...