Whooo...what a fun Thursday. It all started with Halloween parades and parties at the kids school. Maddi's friend Maddie is Hanna Montana in the big glasses, Maddi is Gabriella from High School Musical in the white dress. Her teacher, Mrs. Aylward, is the purple crayon. She is a very sweet teacher, very grandmotherish, which is great for Maddi. It was a beautiful day so the kids didn't need jackets but we did add the turtleneck and leggings since it wasn't exactly sleeveless dress weather.
The back of Maddi's wig.
Cade as Indiana Jones. I got a video of Cade and part of his class you can see at the bottom of the post.
I helped with Cade's class party since Halloween is his favorite holiday. I'll help in Maddi's class for Valentine's since that's her favorite school party holiday. Here is Cade with Adam and Bobby, some of his friends. Brett made bozo buckets for them to play. I saw a parent with them last year so I copied. He nailed 5 pumpkin buckets to a piece of wood and the kids threw balls in the buckets like the grand prize game on the Bozo show. The kids loved it.After school parties Maddi had dance. I picked her up a bit early from dance to go to her party. The kids are out of school Friday so we got to have her party on her real birthday.
The party was at Bouncetown. Here are some of the kids in one of the bounce areas. Since it's close to Halloween the kids got to wear costumes.
Maddi invited Jack so Cade would have a buddy to run around with.
For some reason, my kids theme of their parties is always "It's my party..I can cry if I want to" and they always do cry! Not long into the party Maddi was feeling overwhelmed with all of the attention from her friends. There were 24 kids including Maddi and Cade and they all were wanting to follow her around and be by her. It's rough being the special birthday kid! The people working the party were super sweet and had her happy again in no time.
The kids on the "snake" before we left to go to the second room of bounce toys.
Of course the party wouldn't be complete without both of our kids crying. Here is a shot of Cade crying for some reason....can't remember what he was pouting about, but I'm sure it was something really important.
This is Maddi and Abby racing on one of the bounce areas. It looked like too much fun so I had to give it a go and raced a lot of the kids. They were quite impressed that I came very close to beating most of them. I have a burn on my knee from crawling through the maze so fast. Fun stuff.
Brett was showing off his moves over at the ball toss. Click on the picture and you can see Cade's green ball going through on the red side in the hole on the left. After 1 hour and 20 minutes of bouncing the kids were worn out and needed some more sugar in their bodies.
Next stop was the party room. Daddy with his 8 year old Maddi. Part of the reason Maddi wanted her party at Bounce Town was so she could sit in the big blow up chair. It's the little things in life....
My big 8 year old with her cupcake. Watch the video at the bottom to see the birthday wish.
This is Scott entertaining as usual. He was at hockey in the locker room and told his friends he was leaving to go his girlfriend's party and that she's really hot. I'm not sure Maddi would consider him a boyfriend, but they are good friends. Her boyfriends come and go with the changing of the month so I never know who the current love is.
Funny story about this picture. Cade and Brett were negotiating. See...nothing ever goes as planned when I'm involved. I made 24 cupcakes but somehow when the party attendants were setting up for the party they informed me I only had 23 cupcakes and there were 24 kids. They wanted to know what they should do. I told them that Cade would not get a cupcake. They were vanilla and he wanted chocolate cupcakes so I told him he could have a drumstick ice cream when we got home instead of the cupcake. He was fine with that because the boy LOVES drumsticks. So when they passed out the cupcakes there was a boy who didn't want the cupcake so we told Cade he could have the cupcake instead of the drumstick. He was not giving in....his mind was set on the drumstick. Well, it was the last drumstick and Brett wanted the drumstick too so Brett was trying to convince Cade to have the cupcake so Brett could have the drumstick. Guess who won that negotiation? If you guessed Cade, you're right!
This is another boy who is "love" with Maddi. She only invited 7 boys and they are all boys she has a crush on or who have a crush on her. This boy Parker gave her a necklace with an M and charms and when she opened it everyone was going..."ooooooooohhhh". Poor guy. He turned red and Maddi too. Brett was talking to his mom after the party and told her how it went down and she said she told Parker when he picked the necklace out that people might make fun of him but he was adimant that he wanted her to have it. Kids are so cute.
The party was at Bouncetown. Here are some of the kids in one of the bounce areas. Since it's close to Halloween the kids got to wear costumes.
Maddi invited Jack so Cade would have a buddy to run around with.
For some reason, my kids theme of their parties is always "It's my party..I can cry if I want to" and they always do cry! Not long into the party Maddi was feeling overwhelmed with all of the attention from her friends. There were 24 kids including Maddi and Cade and they all were wanting to follow her around and be by her. It's rough being the special birthday kid! The people working the party were super sweet and had her happy again in no time.
The kids on the "snake" before we left to go to the second room of bounce toys.
Of course the party wouldn't be complete without both of our kids crying. Here is a shot of Cade crying for some reason....can't remember what he was pouting about, but I'm sure it was something really important.
This is Maddi and Abby racing on one of the bounce areas. It looked like too much fun so I had to give it a go and raced a lot of the kids. They were quite impressed that I came very close to beating most of them. I have a burn on my knee from crawling through the maze so fast. Fun stuff.
Brett was showing off his moves over at the ball toss. Click on the picture and you can see Cade's green ball going through on the red side in the hole on the left. After 1 hour and 20 minutes of bouncing the kids were worn out and needed some more sugar in their bodies.
Next stop was the party room. Daddy with his 8 year old Maddi. Part of the reason Maddi wanted her party at Bounce Town was so she could sit in the big blow up chair. It's the little things in life....
My big 8 year old with her cupcake. Watch the video at the bottom to see the birthday wish.
This is Scott entertaining as usual. He was at hockey in the locker room and told his friends he was leaving to go his girlfriend's party and that she's really hot. I'm not sure Maddi would consider him a boyfriend, but they are good friends. Her boyfriends come and go with the changing of the month so I never know who the current love is.
Funny story about this picture. Cade and Brett were negotiating. See...nothing ever goes as planned when I'm involved. I made 24 cupcakes but somehow when the party attendants were setting up for the party they informed me I only had 23 cupcakes and there were 24 kids. They wanted to know what they should do. I told them that Cade would not get a cupcake. They were vanilla and he wanted chocolate cupcakes so I told him he could have a drumstick ice cream when we got home instead of the cupcake. He was fine with that because the boy LOVES drumsticks. So when they passed out the cupcakes there was a boy who didn't want the cupcake so we told Cade he could have the cupcake instead of the drumstick. He was not giving in....his mind was set on the drumstick. Well, it was the last drumstick and Brett wanted the drumstick too so Brett was trying to convince Cade to have the cupcake so Brett could have the drumstick. Guess who won that negotiation? If you guessed Cade, you're right!
This is another boy who is "love" with Maddi. She only invited 7 boys and they are all boys she has a crush on or who have a crush on her. This boy Parker gave her a necklace with an M and charms and when she opened it everyone was going..."ooooooooohhhh". Poor guy. He turned red and Maddi too. Brett was talking to his mom after the party and told her how it went down and she said she told Parker when he picked the necklace out that people might make fun of him but he was adimant that he wanted her to have it. Kids are so cute.
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You guys have sooooo much fun!!! I love looking at all of your pictures.
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