The day began at dawn with the morning's usual call "Mama! I'm ready to wake up!" Today it was followed immediately by "when is everyone coming?". Um, let's see, 11:00 a.m., that would be IN FIVE HOURS. Good for last-minute cleaning, cooking, and cupcake decorating, not so good for a four year-old with limited understanding of time concepts and a lot of excitement at the prospect of 10 friends coming to play, all at once.
Somehow we made it through those hours (who am I kidding, the truth is we called upon our rarely used but totally reliable babysitter, Steve, and his semi-verbal dog, Blue, to organize a treasure hunt, pajama party and trip to school to make the time pass. Got your handy-dandy notebook?) and the guests began to arrive. And everything went swimmingly -- kids organized themselves and moved between playing in the yard and ransacking the toys, adults got coffee and fixed plates for kids zooming past for a snack break. It was relaxed, friendly and pretty much a smooth ride start to finish.
We took some pictures and a little bit of video which I have yet to look at, but one of the toys getting passed around was Adelaide's own digital camera. I never actually saw it in use, but after the party I decided to check out what our preschooler friends thought was important to capture from the event.
I'll spare you the thumbs, all white and all black photos, and the shots of the floor (there were plenty of all three) but here are a few of my favorites.
Stella and Kate on the slide.
Pieter (during the daddy dodgeball game, perhaps?).
Sam, aiming for a daddy, and Pieter, going to re-load for another shot.
The birthday girl, taking a minute to enjoy it all.
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2 comments:
Hey, I didn't know you were blogging! I look forward to reading more. Thanks for one of the most relaxing (for grown-ups) kids b-day parties I've attended.
LOVE the pictures! The one of Adelaide is really so sweet.
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