Party weekend

Err… I realised that we haven’t blogged last weekend’s birthday extravaganza. A has been ill and hence very demanding for nearly a month, and Katy’s also been ill for about the same length of time, so we all got behind with the everyday things. Adding a children’s party on top was interesting! In the end part of me was glad that not everyone stayed over who might have done as it would have forced us to do even more emergency tidying / room clearing, although another part of me knows it would have been very nice to see you all!

I took all the children out on Saturday while Katy did things. The boys let me drop them at Astronomy for the first time – I usually get the joys of making fiendish paper models of things with them, but this time I had to get party shopping with the girls. Keeping SB company on her first visit helped sell the boys on the idea, and they seemed fine with it in the end.

The Babs and co arrived, so the adults consumed cups of tea, chatted and sorted things out. The children disappeared off to who knows where doing who knows what, but they seemed happy. Katy had a 4 cake marathon, with bowl-cleaning help from R, The Babs and A. See Flickr for their full glory.

We were introduced to Bohnanza (the bean game) by The Babs and Chris, and we stayed up till 2.30 playing it. Dirty stop-ins, eh? It was weird and nice to be staying up that late without poorly children being involved. Very good, and I much prefer it to the world-domination type of game such as Risk.

Katy very kindly let me sleep in on Sunday, but had been up herself with A since early. Somehow she lasted the day! The Goddards arrived in time for lunch, but a slow kitchen clock meant we were late leaving for the hall – sorry to those who arrived before us. Chris very kindly dropped me off with the first stuff and then the second wave came with all the rest.

The weather was very much better than the forecast at the start of the week, for which I was most grateful. I’m also very grateful for how much everyone pitched in with food, help and games – honourable mention to tea lady The Babs and Big Alice’s multi-layer jelly.

We started with a snowball fight with scrumpled up newspapers, where you had to clear your quarter of the floor (an idea I pinched from J’s cub pack). The adults and girls tied first place. Hurrah! Then skin the snake, which had to be done but led to some dodgy-looking photos. Big Alice organised a great treasure hunt out on the field. The Ha Ha! game was abandoned as no-one got the giggles. The Goddards’ parachute got properly played with, and the Taylors’ musical islands game went well despite the lack of music.

The rush to get to the hall meant we had left behind the dice needed for the Chocolate Dressing Up Game, so Katy did elephants / monkeys / mice outside while I zoomed back. (It’s rock / paper / scissors in 2 teams, with the winning team having to run after the losing team.)

After cake, we chucked the children out to the playground next to the hall while clearing up happened – more very kind help. Some people went home, and others came back to our for leftovers and cups of tea. Barbie was liberated from her cake and relaxed in a big bowl of jelly with some friends, the children disappeared, some very nice home-made presents were handed over and eventually everyone left and we collapsed.

Unfortunately not all the leftovers were consumed, so we have been forced to eat pizza, cake and other goodies for a few days. Thank you to everyone who came and made it a very nice weekend.

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