Well, we have COMPLETELY confused Isaac! We had his birthday party yesterday, a costume party, but he keeps saying he is now 5 - but he is not!! I keep trying to explain to him that it his just his PARTY, his birthday was not until close to Christmas. He doesn't get it. I don't want to confuse him, but I think this is the way we will be doing his birthday from now on.
We don't do the party in December, because December is crazy for us, and most others. We end up having a Christmas party just about every weekend from the first weekend in December to Christmas. Add on top of that all of the shopping and traveling that people do - just not a good month for a birthday party!! November we have Caleb's party, I just can't do two birthday parties in one month! So, this is the best time to do it! Not to mention - these kids usually only get to dress up once in their costumes, so they all really loved getting to dress up the extra time.
I did not take pictures of the decorations unfortunately. Paul did camera duty and he was outside quite a bit of the time with kids, and I just did not think of it. We had lots of black and orange and ghosts and bats and pumpkins. We served Green Slime Juice with worms floating in it, chips and dip, candy corn/peanut mixes, and lots and lots of candy! We also had ghost shaped cupcakes and chocolate ice cream. Some of the kids were unsure about the green slime juice, but most of them liked it and drank it. We went through two big containers of lime sherbet and 2 - 2 liters of Ginger Ale. The good thing was that the parents liked the punch too.
We tried to do a mummy wrap - did not go over too well. The kids were in pairs and they were supposed to wrap their partner and run to the other end of the yard where they were suppose to rip off their wrap and wrap their partner. It did not go as planned, but the kids had a good time and the yard was COVERED in toilet paper (better than the trees)!
The rest of the time the kids just played. I don't think if I had organized a lot of games I could have gotten them to calm down to play. There were a lot of knives and guns, etc. flying around from all the ninjas, knights, etc. that came to the party. Hopefully they all wore themselves out (despite the candy being injested!!) before they went home.
His gifts were an x-box and 3 games, a Hot Wheels racetrack, Hot Wheels cars and trucks, Nerf Ball gun, a Spiderman matching game and two puzzles and a dinosaur pack with a poster, book and 3D puzzle. This party was great timing, because after being home for a week and a half because of his hand - entertaining him was getting difficult!! He and Bryce have been playing with all the new toys all morning (which is why I have time to sit and do this - even though I should be cleaning house!)
I will post the pictures in the next post - I need to go fix lunch so the boys (and I) can lay down for their naps!!
