The Birthday Party

I haven't done a friends birthday party for a few years so I felt it was high time to have one. I asked Jake what he wanted to do for his party and of course the Star Wars theme was the only one for him. He was very excited about it.

The fun thing about Jake is that he helps make the party. He started by writing out his invitations and handing them out to his friends. Of course, he reminded them on a daily basis. We decided to play just a few games; Star Wars Bingo and Pin the Chest Plate on Darth Vader. The Darth Vader game was easy. That was premade from the party store. Jake and I made the bingo game. It took a little more time, but was completely worth it. It was the hit of the party! We could of played it several more times. It was fun to sit with Jake cutting and glueing the boards together. Even Jake's friend Carly helped. I don't know why I missed getting a picture of the game. I guess we were to into playing it!

Next up, pictures with Darth Vader and a lightsaber with your best Jedi face. And finally, Pin the Chest Plate on Darth Vader. Didn't go so well. They were crazy hyper by then. There were six boys and one girl who is a very cool girl. She's pretty good at playing with the boys, but even they were a little too crazy for her. One little guy was always climbing on the furniture. He was a monkey bouncing over the sofa to stand on the table behind or standing on the window sill. And do you know how loud one little boy is? Times that by the six little boys all hyped up at a birthday party that has lightsabers AND long sqiggly balloons that can be used as lightsabers so they can beat each other senseless? What? I can't hear you. My ears are still ringing.

Moving on to presents, I tried to teach them "Heavy, heavy hangover thy poor head. What do wish with a bump on your head?" I know, dangerous territory for the above mentioned situation but they decided that meant to pour their gift bag out over his head. Hmm.....interesting and apparently a blast.

Quickly over to the brownies and ice cream where Jake helped name them "Deathstar Doom Brownies" and "Hoth Ice Cream" because, ya know, Hoth is an ice planet. We also had "pretzel sabers" - Pretzel rods that were supposed to be covered with green or red melted chocolate to resemble lightsabers. I couldn't find the colored chocolate anywhere, so they were just as is and also a big hit. Anything that you can battle another with is all good fun.

Cake, ice cream and presents were over in eight minutes. I kid you not. We still had fifteen-plus minutes to spare. Thank goodness it was a beautiful day outside! We sent them out and Ryan got them started on a game of P-I-G. The boys ran around like mad men, climbed the tree, swung on the swings, played ball and dared each other to run through the snow with no socks and shoes on. They each got a bag of goodies that included a sheet of Star Wars stickers, Star Wars tatoos, a chocolate gold coin, and a small bottle of bubbles.

We were glad to see them leave and even more happy to see how happy Jake was. I am glad that we did it for him and glad that Ryan was able to be there to help and even more glad that Sam took a nap during the party. He must like it loud while he sleeps! Next time, his party is going to be at a venue that allows those loud, running around crazy boys to be loud, crazy running around boys!