Saturday we had Sam's birthday party. Last year, after having it at a party facility with 15 other kids, we decided to have it at our home and have only a few kids.
This year we managed one of those two goals; we had it at home. (No facility fees! An excuse to clean house top to bottom first!) But despite much effort we ended up concluding that it was worth it to call upon ourselves a plague of seven-year-olds rather than exclude old-school friends, new-school-chums, Church friends or neighborhood friends.
All went well. It was a simple schedule: (3:00) Win It In a Minute; (3:30) Storyteller; (4:00) cake & pizza.
WIIAM is three games in which each kid tries to do something tough in 60 seconds:
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| Stacking spice container using chopsticks |
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| Stacking dice on a tongue depressor |
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| Blowing white ping-pong balls--but not the red one--off a pizza sheet. (Josh is helping one of the contestants.) |
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| The storyteller is the husband of a teacher at Sam's old Montessori. He works at a Barnes & Noble and does this on the side. He's a real natural and did a good job controlling such a large group of kids. |
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| He told two stories. At Sam's request, one was spooky, the other funny. He had the kids in stitches. |
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| Susan baked two cakes, one vanilla, one chocolate. She put on them these little plastic figures called "Go-gos". They are collectables, popular with the elementary set. |
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| Sam and his posse eating pizza. |
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| Susan with cake #1 and the birthday boy. |
The photographer was Aunt Amy, to whom a great deal of credit goes for not only helping us get the house ready, but doing crowd and toddler control during the event. It's unlikely we could have pulled it off without her. Thank you, Amy!
Next year: a small party plus movie evening with two friends. Really!
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