Jade's 4th birthday party was last Saturday. When we first moved here one of the things I was looking forward to the most was Jade's birthday. We FINALLY have a house big enough to host an actual party, so I really wanted to make this a big deal. Unfortunately, she's not in preschool like I thought she'd be, so we've had to do some recruiting of neighborhood kids. I also recently put her in dance, so after her first practice she decided to invite a girl she met there. Anyway, in three months she has made 5 little friends, and luckily they all showed up to the party. I had very ambitious plans a month ago to rent a big bouncy house and a ramada at the park on our little catch and release lake. For some reason I had this delusion that we'd have 20-something kids to entertain. I think that was just wishful thinking on my part. Plus, could you imagine how much money that would cost? I'm actually really happy with the way her party turned out. We played "pin the antennae on the butterfly"(no pics of that, because I was busy blindfolding all the children), and we did a pull-string pinata. Since when have they started making those stupid things? Isn't the point of a pinata to beat the snot out of the darn thing until candy falls out onto the heads of greedy little children? I thought so too. Maybe they figured little girls really didn't want to put Tinkerbell through that torture, so about 12 ribbons were attached to the bottom. Each child grabbed hold of a ribbon and they all pulled at the same time. No beating, just pulling. I don't have pictures of that either.
All in all, it turned out really nice, and Jade just loved her little party!
6 comments:
That sounds like a fun party. I can't believe she is already 4! Wasn't she just born?
Yeah, if you try to beat the pull string ones it takes AGES to break them... until the bat gets tangled in the strings and the candy comes out that way.
They are good for using again a few years later though, little tape, new ribbons... walah! I'm so cheap.
In my defence, I tend to make our own pinatas. The transformers one at the store is a good guy so I made the bad guy. Then there were the dementors! Those were fun to beat the stuffing out of.
Glad she got to have a fun party! Cute pictures!
Looks like it was fun! Happy Birthday Jade!
Sounds like a great party and the pics are so cute! Glad she got to have a party with friends over. And ya, I've seen the pull string pinatas and just thought they were dumb to.
Looks like so much fun. I especially love the look on her face in the top photo, LOL!!!
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