Well, we have finished this years rounds of child birthdays, well, our child birthdays anyway, there are sure to be lots of other child birthdays to come! While the young ladies birthday was a fairly routine affair, hired a hall, invited a few people, played some games. Its quite good as the hall that we generally hire is also the location for one of the toddler groups I attend and as such you can use the toys. So toddler parties are nice and easy, generally its friendsnand family as well, so not loads of kids running riot. This year though, the little man was to old for toddler toys, which left us with the question of what to do.
In some respects, the little man solved this for us by having a definite idea of what he wanted, one that was actually achievable! The problem was, it was outside, in feb, in Scotland. Outside in feb, in Scotland really means only one thing, it means your getting wet. Lucky, where we live, people are pretty use to that fact, so we cracked on with the plan, headed up to the woodland of choice for the little man, donned out wet weather gear and got on with it. As predicted, two things happened; one, it rained and two, the kids barely noticed, us parents on the other hand, grumbled in the background.
However, as much fun as the kids were having, there is only so much that they will put up with, so we didn't spend too long it there. My lovely wife had put a lot of effort in to a treasure hunt for the kids, so we did that as planned, although slightly shortened to avoid the windy bit out of the trees at the start. Personally I love treasure hunts, they can be great fun, I've fond memories of various treasure hunts as a child, one we did as a family in the car around the country lanes of Kent. I even remember the car, a white ford escort, L reg I believe. I also remember it squeaked a lot, somewhere down the back seats and despite several trips to the garage, they never found the route of the problem. Anyway, I digress, treasure hunts. The one funny bit was the fact thatthe kids went barreling off in to the woods at the mention of a treasure hunt and one of the teams found one of the treasure chests, it could have been a bit of a disaster, as it makes the hunt a bit pointless when you know the final destination, but as it turned out it was the wrong chest and they ended up at the other one! Oh, and the minion blind bags went down well at the end (picked up for the barfing price of 6p each! Good old wifey)
After the adventure around the woods, we retired to a local hall, it was our alternative/backup plan if it was really bad, for food, drink and cake. It got a little crazy at times, a bunch of kids with far to much energy! The wife tried to run a few games, but they didn't go down across the board, some kids ( the little man included) were more interested I charging around everywhere! Oh well, as long as their enjoying themselves!
The cake was made by the wife, and was another brilliant success, it may not be as polished as some peoples, but the little man loved it and that's all that matters!
So all in all, another successful party I think, now I just have to think of what I'm going to do for the wife's!
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