Party Day for Jaden

Saturday we celebrated Jaden's 6th birthday (his actual birthday is the 16th). He kept changing his mind about what he wanted to do for a party - bowling, Playstation, etc. But one thing that didn't change is that he wanted a pinata! Ever since we had a pinata a couple years ago he seems to think you can't have a birthday without one. So I decided to just have a party at our house... surely it can't be too hard (after the first 2 birthdays we always go somewhere for parties). Then for the last 2 weeks I stressed about what exactly to do with the 2 hours of "birthday party" that I now had to fill. I even thought about scratching the idea a couple times but I had been too excited to fill out invitations and some of them were already handed out. I finally planned 5 or 6 carnival-type games (tons of fun rounding up the required items for that!) and of course a pinata. And some decorating (again, tons of fun putting up this morning!).

We ended up with 10 kids (plus my own 2 that participated and 3 that didn't). It was a madhouse at times with little people running throughout the house, screaming and laughing! They had a blast. In fact, they were having so much fun running around playing toys that I was worried they wouldn't even want to stop to play my games. But they did stop and, again, had a blast. Sometimes they would ask to do that game over and over (especially musical chairs!) - the prizes helped too :)

My friend helping while I fed the baby

Cotton ball race (Vaseline on the nose, no hands)

Lining up for pop toss

 

 Of course, the big hit of the day was the pinata! (yes, pun intended!) Everyone got to hit twice and Jaden finished it off.

I had taken Jaden to the store to pick out his cake - Spiderman was his choice. I should've gotten a bigger one, just didn't realize almost all of the invitees would actually come!

Happy, happy birthday to my sweet Jaden!