I had not really thought about if Doug and Andy are in different classes that they would get invited to different birthday parties. It had occurred to me that we would have two classes to invite to their birthday party when that rolls around, but the reverse had not occurred to me until recently.
So far my tact has been to call and say "You might not be aware of it but Doug/Andy has a twin in the other four-year old class..." and both boys have ended up going. Today was the first party that was in a home (rather than at a place like a church or an event place) so the mother was worried about space.
So Doug went by himself. He was fine with this. Andy and Josie were not. However, we went and did something special and then picked him up. He had a marvelous shark painted on his face. I will have to get the pictures of it off the camera.
These pictures of Josie are from a previous party that had a carnival theme. All three children went to it but Josie had the most elaborate face painting. There were bouncies, games, the face painter, a clown doing balloon things, a pinata, and so much cake/junk food. I think one of my goals when we have our birthdays in May will be to not feed children cake and ice cream and then send them home with more candy.
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We live in an era of completely overboard parties. William went to one today at a laser tag place - probably at least a dozen boys, so I'm guessing $400-500. And he won't remember it as any different than the other laser tag parties he's been too. But the marshmallow shooter party? Less than $100 for supplies and food (I'm guessing) and he's still talking about it.
Owen went to a party the other day at a friends house. The activity and take-home were home-made stomp rockets. The rockets were made of rolled up paper taped at one end that the kids decorated. The launcher was a 2-liter soda bottle attached to a 4 ft. long piece of old garden hose attached to a ft. long section of PVC tubing. The rocket slides over the tubing and you stomp on the soda bottle. Cheap and fun! (Of course, you have to blow air in it to ready the soda bottle for the next launch -- not high tech, but fun!) Owen was initially a little disappointed that there was no goody bag that he's learned to expect, but we brought home the rocket launcher and I'm thrilled that I don't have a bag full of party flotsam and candy to figure out how to get rid of without the kids noticing!
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