The weekend of birthday parties...already?

We have lived here, in our current home, for just under 2 years. We have been invited to a few work parties (I'm sure people felt obligated to invite me as the "boss") and some block parties (since we live on the block, they couldn't really not invite us). We are slowly trying to meet people, not an easy task...

A is now 6 months old. He has been invited to five birthday parties. Yep, 5...in 6 months. This is clearly the way to meet people. Granted, two of the invitations were part of a mommy group that I joined. But still, he is by far the most popular member of our family.

This weekend we have no less than two parties. On the one hand I am curious, since in 5 short months I will need to throw a 1 year old birthday party myself. On the other hand, that's a lot of little kids in one weekend. I am a little intimidated by the last birthday party we went to - I am not that creative, nor do I have the energy to put together such a spread. Will A even care? His favorite part of the last party we went to was the grass!

So wish me luck...on top of trying to attend two 1 year old birthday parties, we're going to the Ronald Reagan Library, having a swim play date, unpacking from last weekend, and then all the normal weekend things...laundry, grocery shopping, dishes, yard work, walking the dog etc. etc. etc.....