...for my son's 4th birthday...
Um, when and why did I decide to do this?
There are 2 classes of 12 in my son's preschool, and he has friends in both...so we invited all. Plus 6 friends from church and about 6 in the neighborhood. We have 25 confirmed and haven't heard from 6. Luckily it will be sunny and 80 and we have a big front yard. But, uh, at least 20 parents too! I am going to buy lots of cake and juice and snacks for the parents. My mom is getting my son a soccer goal so we will have that too...
Wish me luck...
KatieG2008-09-18 17:55:39Oh lordie. Start drinking now.
All I can say Katie....is OMG, You are a saint!!Sorry, I had to edit that like 4 times, I kept posting accidentally! hehehehehe. I am SO glad those days are over! Don't worry, you'll survive. :) Seriously, have fun. Those days really do pass by too fast.Are you crazy??? : )
I think I'm just in denial. :) I am excited though. It's a Blues Clues theme. My son is so excited this year. Last year he wasn't as focused on his party, and we just ended up having a family party at the Chattanooga Choo Choo, which was a lot of fun.
The craziest thing is 25 presents! Oh my, will we have room? Sometimes I wish I could convince everyone, please, just give me for his college fund! He's more excited about his friends coming over than presents anyway. But he's a pretty social guy, so I'm sure he'll love opening them and saying thank you. When I was little, I was SO shy that when people would sing happy birthday, I would cover my ears and run and hide! :) I hated being the center of attention. My son isn't into that as much as he is just really friendly and outgoing (he gets it from his dad). We will be at the mall, and there will be a group of 18 year old goth kids, and he will run up and say, "hi, my name is Tommy! look at my new shoes!" I hope he never loses that enthusiasm...
Hopefully you'll get some gift cards in that mix of presents. We always give gift cards for one of the local book stores. No worries of duplicate presents or something (video games, etc) that are not allowed by the kid's parents!
I feel a headache coming on....I always had a BIG headache after those kid's parties!
Hope you have fun!
Good Luck to you!! I have a 4 year old so I totally understand. Maybe get a couple cocktails for after the party!
OMG
we had Ally's party at the playground. it was great all I did is watch them climb all over and serve goodies!!
happy birthday to the little guy.
Good luck and have a great time!!!!!I love four year olds. It is just my favorite age personality wise. My niece and nephews it seems have an invite to a party about every weekend. Scince there are three of them 4,5 and 6.
However the invites are usually for the skating rink or the swimming pool. You are a brave sole.
Please no red juice drinks. Provide nothing that stains. I hope you have plenty of help watching them. No hard candy.
Took my son to a party he was very young. There was a pineatte. We carefully made him a bag with safe looking candy. He got a hold of another childs bag and choked on a round piece of hard candy. The men in the room just freaked out and watched him turn blue. I had to knock it out of him of course. With 45 kids it would be hard to keep an eye on all of them. Best of luck with that.
I have my mom, husband's mom, and my sister to help (along with hubby). We have no carpet downstairs, and our pets have peed on things so many times that there's nothing worse a kid can do. Okay, our house isn't THAT gross, but we are definitely used to spills...
No hard candy!! THat is so scary! Most of the parents will probably stay...they did at the most recent party we went to. I guess at 4 it's still expected around here.
You're only supposed to invite as many kids as years old the birthday child is, good luck, wonder what he'll want next year. We didn't have big blow out parties until our girls were older. Like the birthday they ran the well dry from the water fight, and they'd been making water balloons for 2 days prior. You're lucky the weather is still nice, hope it doesn't rain.Katie!!
How was the party? any good stories? did the moms stay? Did the birthday boy have fun?
Hope the party went well and you're relaxing today. Thank you all for the positive posts. I doubt my son will beg for this next year, so I'm not at all worried about that. This was a once in a lifetime thing for him! We had a blast, and I think/hope everyone had fun. It was extravagant but this year we had the time & energy (not a new baby, pottytraining, etc.) so it was worth it to go for it. I think the only thing that gets to you is wondering if others are judging and if they are having a good enough time and then it's just like, whatever, get over it. I was worried about everyone having fun but it was a beautiful day and everyone said they liked it. It's weird because I work and my husband drops off at preschool so I don't click great with all the moms (I'm not super social, I just love to plan and this was fun). It was a memory filled afternoon. Kids ran around, cake time went off pretty well (although I bought way too much cake, but there are better things to worry about!) Tommy did well with opening presents too (well for a 4 year old) :)
I'm sure some thought it was too big of a party but I just thought it was so much fun. We had balloons everywhere and the kids went between playground, front yard/games and playing with toys inside. I was so excited because Tommy has ridiculous numbers of Thomas trains and I think all of them were played with!
My physical condition is another issue. I got a cold (maybe allergies) that had me laid flat this morning, but I was able to perk up. So I'm flaring a bit and my feet are killing me--it's like I'm walking on rocks. The problem was I have a friend in town who's only in town once a year and another we had a baby shower for today so I went to another big party 2 hours after tommy's (that involved chasing kids). I may be worthless tomorrow but I think it was worth it. I am going to run downstairs and beg my husband to rub my feet :)
Oh forgot to add--all the moms did stay (and a few dads!) It went great but I couldn't have done it without help from my mom/sister/mother in lawGlad to hear you survived!!
I think you deserve to take the next week off- relax! and lots of foot rubs!
Our boys are 8 and 9, and we've still never hosted a birthday party for them. Their birthdays are in the summer, and we usually take the boys to Chicago or Milwaukee for the weekend. We stay in a big hotel, on the highest floor we can get, so the boys can look out the window at the big city down below. This year they've started asking about having a birthday party, so we may do a half-party (their half-year birthdays) so it's actually during the school year and they can invite their classmates. OMG that's like 50 kids between the two of them...
I think I need a beer...
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Good Luck to you!! I have a 4 year old so I totally understand. Maybe get a couple cocktails for after the party!
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Same here! I have a four yr old Bday party coming up in two weeks and I only have 16 coming! You are brave. Kepp the drinks chilled for later! I did kind of the same thing when my daughter was in kindergarten and sent out 22 invitations for her whole class because I didn't want anyone left out. I thought surely not all the 22 will show up but OMG they all did. We did have a blast. Her birthday is in Jan. so it was in the house. We had a pinatta that would bust open so my hubby took a bat to it on the floor just to open it. The kids got a kick out of that. I never did that again. My gosh, when I think back I don't know how I survived. It was way before ra. My daughter is 20 now and we invite grandparents, my sister, hubby, and son (15) and 2 friends and go out for dinner. She picks the place with my approval. Last few years it was pizza. I can handle that alot better! I know how tired you must be. Take it easy the next few days (if you can)
take care
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