I was feeling quite bad about never throwing a birthday party for Soren. As his 9th birthday approached I decided there would be no more excuses. So we bit the bullet and gave out invitations and made plans. I remembered that we had gotten a Spider-Man birthday in a box from somewhere, so this seemed like a great time to make use of it. It had invitations, banner, streamers, plates, napkins, cups, goodie bags, decorations, and goodies for the bags. The only thing I had to purchase was the treats and make cupcakes. I had more fun than I thought I would have trying to color coordinate things and set it up all fancy like. I'm sure all the 8 and 9 year olds at the party really appreciated my efforts. Haha!!
Only one of the invitees couldn't be there so we had a pretty full house of rowdy boys. We played a superhero race game where there were two teams and each team sent a person who had to put on the oversized clothing and proceed to stuff it with balloons to simulate superhero muscles, then they had to unstuff and run tag the next guy on their team til everyone had a turn. It was pretty humorous! Then they played pin/beat-the-villain game. Next was a quieter activity of a Lego building contest. I needed that respite.
We then ate cake, donuts, popcorn, licorice, cherry sours and drank blue Koolaid. After their sugar refill, Soren opened his gifts and they all played until it was time for them to be picked up. Whew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was a fast and furious 2 hours and I was exhausted when it was over. But Soren was happy and had a great time with his friends, so I'm glad I made the effort to celebrate his birthday with a party for him this year.
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| The goodie table |
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| he voted for cupcakes and donuts this year |
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| the party table |
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| funny game! some of the kids were absolutely swamped in Curtis's clothes... |
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| build those muscles! |
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| lots of laughing in this game |
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| pin the superhero…. |
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| way to help a friend out! |
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| Lego building competition |
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| sure kept them quiet for a few minutes |
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| let the eating commence |
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| then came the gift opening and Heavy, Heavy, Hang Over |
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| It was a good 1st birthday party |
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