With school coming up and schedules being new or different, we decided to do a combo birthday part for the Monkey Twins . They're birthdays are 6 weeks apart but I hated to try and plan two parties so close together. The weather leading up to Saturday was worrisome but we ended up with blue skies and plenty of sunshine. The high was around 78 when we started. It was one of the nicest days we've had this summer.
Originally, I had planned to magnetize some bath toy fish and rig a pole for the kids. After several unsuccessful attempts at that, we found some kids lacrosse sticks at Target. Toss some rubber duckies into a kiddie pool and Voila! They loved it. Mason and Madison (my cousin Lisa's kiddos) were on mission to catch as many as possible. Mason set the Official Backyard Duck Contest tally number at 49 in around 40 seconds (give or take a few seconds.)
I doubt I'll ever be hired as professional party decorator but I had a lot of fun putting it all up. Word to the wise though... When buying balloons, don't stick 40 of them in your car at one time. It's nearly impossible to untangle that many. I was still trying to get a few loose to put outside when our first guests arrived. Ellie thought it was great fun to "help." I don't know how we managed to keep them all from floating to the ceiling. Campbell relished in tearing down streamers wherever she found them. I had hung crepe paper up around the house and finally had to give up with any of them being near her eye or hand level.
A side benefit of preparing the house for the party is that I think I finally figured out how to get our kitchen floor sparkling clean. It involves a lot of scrubbing and time but regular mopping just wasn't getting it done.
I found a palm tree cake tin and Jennifer went to town on decorating them. She did a great job and the girls loved them. The only bad thing about cake is that I ate too much of it.Thanks to everyone for making Funky and Crash's birthday a great success! We had a blast and hoped you did too.
After all that, I'm really glad we just did one party.
