Victoria is Three

Tori turned three years old on November 20th. Hard to believe. We’ve been a bit low budget this year, so her birthday party was at our place. But we needed something entertaining so we hired a magician to come in for an hour, Otsie Kerplotsie. We asked him to do the “silly magician” shtick instead of the clown bit (too many kids are afraid of clowns).

I was a bit nervous about how it would go. We have a good friend who always does the clown/magician thing for parties and they’ve been hit or miss. One year she hired a clown that was supposed to show up as Dora. We have forever referred to that clown as “crack Dora” because she was clearly on something that day.

Otsie came recommended by another magician (who was already booked). That’s generally a good sign, so I booked him.

He showed up a bit early and started by doing some small intimate tricks for the kids who were there.

(left to right, Victoria (mine), Kenzie, Mia, Danielle (mine), Jesse, Otsie).

He had Tori laughing from the beginning. The act wasn’t particularly original, he was just really funny. He did the bit where he stuffs the handkerchiefs into a bag but they fall out the bottom:

The ever popular collapsing magic wand bit:

And in general had the whole gang laughing, especially Tori.

And he finished with some very impressive balloon animals/things. An overall excellent performance.

Top that off with some cake…

And a walk in your big sister’s shoes…

And you have an excellent birthday party.

Happy Thanksgiving to all. I’m obviously most thankful for family and friends…