With eight kids, you might think that we are constantly hosting birthday parties. Not so! We decided a LONG time ago that we couldn't do a kid party every birthday for every child, so we came up with a solution. You only get a kid party every five years (as in on your 5, 10 and 15 birthday). This has simplified our lives immensely :-) Well, as you know Aidan & Emily will be turning 10 in just a few days, so today we had their 10 year old kid party. That translates into 10 extra kids in the house.
We took them all bowling which was a great time, but I have no pictures to prove it because we forgot the camera. It all went extremely well and the girls out-scored the boys by ten points. Then it was back to our house for cake, ice cream, presents, tag and football.
I don't have any great pics of the party but here are Aidan & Emily blowing out their candles on their extra-special bowling cake!
You posted about that already?
ReplyDeleteAimee,
ReplyDeleteI posted before you even left :-) I'm sneaky.....
Presents for Molly, Emily and Aidan are "in the mail" -- really.
ReplyDeleteI'm with ya on the "party every 5 years".... unfortunately, my homegrown girls are 2 years, a day and a minute apart, so it's really hard to invite just ONE of the girls friends, when that friend has a sibling the same age of my other birthday girl! This year I gave up trying to just have a party for my 5 yo, invited all their little friends and their moms and other girl siblings, and we just had a big ole party. So the 7 yo benefitted big time from that.... I think this might be the pattern.... moms have a hard time not buying for both, or sometimes all 3 girls! We just have so many friends with 2-3 little sisters the same ages as ours. Wow, that comment got long! Oh, and dh LOVES the honey whatever chicken thighs!
ReplyDeleteJean,
ReplyDeleteYes, the siblings friends with siblings thing gets a little complicated! I like the one big party idea. We do that with the extended family - pick a date sometime in Oct. in the middle of birthday season and have a big get-together with everyone. It kind of makes their birthdays seem to go on forever though...
Great idea about the parties! Does that mean you have at least one party a yr? Do they get to invite the # of kids according to their b'day age?
ReplyDeleteCaryn,
ReplyDeleteNo, we still have more than one party most years, but at least we don't have more than three parties in any given year (and this year Aidan & Emily did their parties together).
As for number of kids, we don't do the number of your age. We try to keep it under 10 kids per party (so A & E only got to invite 5 each since they had a joint party and since we brought them bowling).
We did not give Marcus his party last year (time got away from us and he didn't have too many friends yet), so he gets one this year, as does Raelea who's turning 5. As, but those are two & three months away still :-)