Three years ago, we told ourselves ‘Never again!’ after lots of
Isaiah’s school friends came to our house for a birthday party.
They were so crazy that we gave up trying to give them any
instructions for the party games because none of them possessed the
ability to sit and listen.
Why don't we listen to ourselves?
We seemed to have
forgotten our own advice as we invited seven of Ethan’s Jordanian
school friends to our house for his birthday party. Ethan requested a
pirate theme for his party, so as the children arrived we got them
to make pirate hats and eyepatches. Then we did ‘pin the eye patch
on the pirate’.
Other games included
pop-up pirate, pass the parcel and freeze dance. We were giving
sweets as prizes, which probably contributed towards them getting
more and more loud and crazy as the party went on. One of them kept
bursting into tears if he didn’t win every game, even if the game
hadn’t finished yet! By the time we got to the obstacle course,
none of them would stop and listen to the instructions, so we had to
use our own kids to demonstrate what to do.
Crowd control
Kate made an amazing
pirate ship cake which, along with other sweet party food and drinks, made
the kids even more crazy. In the end, we resorted to crowd control as
they were chasing each other around our house and we were grateful
that we got to the end without anyone getting injured or breaking
anything in the house!
If we do this again,
we must remember to only feed them savoury food!
