Well, it has been about two weeks since Kailan’s RAD Zoo lizard party, and I think we are finally recovered.
We had 16 kids total (4 girls and 12 boys).
Several lizards.
And Sugar.
Parents dropping off their kids were saying how brave we were to have so many kids in the house. Brave, or slightly insane??
Insane.
We honestly thought they would be better behaved. Of course, last time about half of the kids parents’ stayed for it. This time only one stayed. This time there were a few kids (one in particular) that decided they wanted to be the center of attention and were instigators of the whole not paying attention, running around and yelling while the presentation was being held. This one kid was talking about killing the animals. 😯
Had I known what they would act like, we would have had a few kids struck off the invite list. That is surely the last time they are coming into our house for anything.
Our voices may have been raised…just a few times…to get the collective attention. Then raised again.
Of course the four girls (and one little younger brother) were sitting like angels in the front paying attention and asking questions.
I also had a craft for them to do, which were little wooden lizards, snakes and other animals to paint. That went into the goodie bags. There was no way they were going to paint in our house with how out of control most were acting by that time.
At least the kids had a great time. They didn’t really notice that our stress levels were going through the roof.
Kailan had fun, and that is what is important. He also got lots of Lego sets and had most of them together by the end of the night.
Meanwhile, we went to a bar that night with some of our grownup friends and decompressed and vented about Other People’s Children.
I think you were very brave having snakes and lizards in your home. Isn’t ia amazing how children can act, then I would hope and pray mine didn’t act like that at another home. When my oldest was second grade we let her have 10 girls over for a birthday sleepover, the twins were 4 months old, no one slept, it was awful. I kept watching for the mothers in the morning and would hurry the girls out the door. It took forever for us to let any of the other 3 have sleepover parties.
Kailan will always remember this party and what great parents you were.
yup!!! I go with the insane version myself LOL you will know better which ones to cull out for next year…:o) glad he had fun.
It definitely takes awhile to recover from those birthday parties. We are lucky that our kids have summer birthdays. We just throw them out in the yard. Love the photo of Kailan with the snake.
The best part of the word bubbles is that this was actually the conversation that took place. The look on Kai’s face when the zoo guy told him it would only go a little numb was pretty good.
Well I think it sounds like a great idea for a party but yeah…I remember occasions like this too when the BA was younger. >:-( I usually did bigger ones in the church hall so they had space to run amok and they couldn’t break anything in my house! I also found taking the chief ‘troublemaker’ off to one side for a little clenched teeth chat about phoning their mother, often defused a deteriorating situation. Recently at Sunday School though, I had 5 x 9 year old boys who were my nemesis. It wouldn’t have been so bad if I hadn’t been trying to organise a Nativity…..I mean, how many Killer Zombie SHEEP can you have in one play?????????? Congrats to you for surviving it though. Kai sure looks pleased with himself.