Saturday was Seth's birthday party. I made the monkey cupcakes, then Susie and I taped green balloons all over the dining room chandelier (a tree-top!) and hung stuffed monkeys all over the light. It was really cute.
The eight little boys arrived about 12:30. Our reinforcements included Scott and me, my friend Donna, who had two sons at the party, and Susie. We had brought down Legos and a basket of robots and dinosaurs to the living room, but instead the guys grabbed every spare pillow on the bottom floor and built a fort. I decided start some games when one of them asked me if they could ransack the upstairs for pillows (not his words, of course!) We got everyone rounded up and played "Monkey, Monkey, Gorrilla" (like Duck, Duck, Goose). A few minor injuries ensued, but everyone had fun. Then it was "Hot Banana" (like Hot Potato) time. We had a plastic banana for that one (a real one would have been mush by the end). Then it was time for cake and we herded everyone in the dining room and passed out the cupcakes and lemonade. I decided against getting the ice cream out as we all needed a breather (and we were only 45 minutes into a 2 hour party). They finished wolfing everything down, and we went for the presents. In the barely contained chaos that followed, I was somehow able to scratch down some semblance of a list of who brought what. It was time for the big guns...I started the balloon relay where the kids had to run and sit on a balloon and pop it. Some of the kids didn't really get the concept of the race; they just wanted to sit on the balloons! Anyway, everyone got to pop one twice. We also did a drop the clothespin into the bottle game, which was not quite as popular. At that point, 30 minutes remained in the party--ack! Fortunately, we turned on the movie "Madagascar", which I had queued up in the event of an emergency (hey, it fit with our animal theme, too!). That turned out to be a good move and everyone quieted down. We had one young one that was a bit overwhelmed by all the excitement and had a little meltdown in the middle of the movie, but he recovered and somehow we got everyone out the door with their moms and dads again by 2:30ish. Whew! We did have a latecomer who showed up at the end of the party (his mom had not gotten the message about the time change!) This little guy was from church and good as gold, so I told his mom to just go and let the boys have a playdate for a while. It worked out well...I hardly heard a peep from the guys for about two hours! Anyway, Seth and his pals had a GREAT time, but next year we will probably have to cut back on the numbers. I had hoped the weather would have been nice enough to throw them all in the backyard, in which case, everything would have been much easier, but as it turned out, Saturday was the coldest day yet of the spring with snow flurries. Murphy's law, I suppose.
We finished out the day by going over to a funky pizza restaurant in the Waldo district of town (which serves gluten-free pizza!). The three boys (Blane likes their plain pizza, even though it's GF) devoured all but one piece of a 12 inch pizza. We then went home and watched "The Water Horse", which Susie had brought for the boys. We had three very tired, but happy, boys that collapsed in bed last night!
The eight little boys arrived about 12:30. Our reinforcements included Scott and me, my friend Donna, who had two sons at the party, and Susie. We had brought down Legos and a basket of robots and dinosaurs to the living room, but instead the guys grabbed every spare pillow on the bottom floor and built a fort. I decided start some games when one of them asked me if they could ransack the upstairs for pillows (not his words, of course!) We got everyone rounded up and played "Monkey, Monkey, Gorrilla" (like Duck, Duck, Goose). A few minor injuries ensued, but everyone had fun. Then it was "Hot Banana" (like Hot Potato) time. We had a plastic banana for that one (a real one would have been mush by the end). Then it was time for cake and we herded everyone in the dining room and passed out the cupcakes and lemonade. I decided against getting the ice cream out as we all needed a breather (and we were only 45 minutes into a 2 hour party). They finished wolfing everything down, and we went for the presents. In the barely contained chaos that followed, I was somehow able to scratch down some semblance of a list of who brought what. It was time for the big guns...I started the balloon relay where the kids had to run and sit on a balloon and pop it. Some of the kids didn't really get the concept of the race; they just wanted to sit on the balloons! Anyway, everyone got to pop one twice. We also did a drop the clothespin into the bottle game, which was not quite as popular. At that point, 30 minutes remained in the party--ack! Fortunately, we turned on the movie "Madagascar", which I had queued up in the event of an emergency (hey, it fit with our animal theme, too!). That turned out to be a good move and everyone quieted down. We had one young one that was a bit overwhelmed by all the excitement and had a little meltdown in the middle of the movie, but he recovered and somehow we got everyone out the door with their moms and dads again by 2:30ish. Whew! We did have a latecomer who showed up at the end of the party (his mom had not gotten the message about the time change!) This little guy was from church and good as gold, so I told his mom to just go and let the boys have a playdate for a while. It worked out well...I hardly heard a peep from the guys for about two hours! Anyway, Seth and his pals had a GREAT time, but next year we will probably have to cut back on the numbers. I had hoped the weather would have been nice enough to throw them all in the backyard, in which case, everything would have been much easier, but as it turned out, Saturday was the coldest day yet of the spring with snow flurries. Murphy's law, I suppose.
We finished out the day by going over to a funky pizza restaurant in the Waldo district of town (which serves gluten-free pizza!). The three boys (Blane likes their plain pizza, even though it's GF) devoured all but one piece of a 12 inch pizza. We then went home and watched "The Water Horse", which Susie had brought for the boys. We had three very tired, but happy, boys that collapsed in bed last night!
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What priceless, golden momeents, Scott and Diadra!! And, what precious boys you are growing!! WE are PROUD of them, too!!! Love, Bethany, Tom, and Stewart
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