Brooke's Birthday Party

On Friday the 15th Brooke celebrated her birthday with all her classmates. From 3:30 'til 5'30 we had 20 party kids running amuck! Actually, they are a good bunch of kids - can't get them quiet to listen to instructions but when it came to playing games and joining in they all participated and we had no problems. It's great getting to meet all the kids (boys and girls) that Brooke spends every school day with.
We (thankfully Chris came over to give me a hand!) kept the kids busy with all sorts of weird and wacky games.


Waiting for all the party kids to arrive.

Time for gift-giving. A whole group of the kids pitched in together to give Brooke a gift voucher of $140 to spend at Target. Wow was she happy with that! We had to go straight away so she could get some new clothes.


Next we played a game like pass the parcel but with a gruesome twist. We had 4 jars of baby food with the labels removed going around and around the group. When the music stopped whoever was left holding the jar had to take a spoonful of the dubious looking stuff. Some faces that were pulled were priceless!! At the same time we had a carved out pumpkin full of cold spaghetti noodles (brains) that was passed around. When the music stopped the lucky person got to stick their hand in the brains and feel for a lolly!! The kids (especially the boys) thought that was fantastic!!

They also played a smartie relay where they had to suck a smartie onto a straw and carry it to the counter to drop into a container. With 2 teams there was lots of noise and dropped smarties and surprisingly no-one bumped heads.


Next we went outside for some fresh air. We had a relay race to the trampoline and back. But there was a twist. Not just a regular run to the tramp and run back, oh no!! They had to run in pairs, both in a pair of large jocks and running back to back. What a laugh that was!! By the end the jocks were ripped to shreds but the kids all thought it was fun. Storm and Clinton were paired up and Storm carried Clinton on his back much to Clinton's delight. Some of the kids went down in a tangle and lost valuable time trying to get back on their feet again and some just managed to crawl over the finish line. Lots and lots of laughs with this game!!


This game was a hoot! We split the kids into 4 teams. Each team chose a person to lay on the ground protected by a rubbish bag and some goggles. They all had a bowl of marshmallows covered in chocolate syrup. They had to drop the marshmallows into the 'victim's' mouth without bending. The results were fantastic with marshmallows plopped on the goggles, and sliding down their ears... in the end, not many marshmallows were actually eaten!! The 4 boys who volunteered were really good sports and did an excellent job. Thanks Nathan, Chad, Storm and Kyle, you guys were fantastic!
Finally the kids all went to the park and played a half hour of Flag. Thankfully Chris knows how to play the game, and Cody and Wade were watchmen by the jails so they all had lots of fun. At 5:30 the boys were all picked up which left Brooke with 8 girls all ready for a giggly, girlie sleepover!! We had some dinner quickly and then I took the 9 girls to the local rollerskating rink where they spent 2 hours learning to rollerskate and participate in the various games they did there. They all thought it was a fantastic evening out!!
When we got home the girls sat down to watch a movie - the Princess Bride - a nice and calming movie just before bed: NOT!! The girls quietly went to bed and since Brooke's room is upstairs on the other end of the house we didn't hear them anymore, although they quite happily told us they went to sleep really late!
The next morning was rather chaotic as we also had a music practice session for Rev Hart's welcome evening. Originally that was going to start at 10, after the girls had been picked up but that got changed to 9. Anyway, the girls watched some Little House on the Prairie episodes (thanks Annette!!) while I cooked them some pancakes for breakfast. After breakfast they played the 1-100 dice game, where you get to write down the numbers from 1-100 when you roll a 6. If someone else rolls a 6 they get to grab the pen and start writing numbers down furiously. First one to 100 wins the game. It's always lots of fun, with tensions sometimes running high. They just finished it when the parents came to pick them up. The girls all got to take a little stuffed animal home with a lolly bag attached to their necks. Oh, so cute!!
And so ends another grand grade 6 party, with memories galore!!