I am incapable of throwing a small party. There! I said it.
My son's second birthday is fast approaching and I've been planning his party for weeks. By planning I mean trying to make a guest list comprised of his multiple (yes, I said "multiple" as in more than one) circles of friends (and their parents) and the obligatory family members appear low-key.
Problem is... we're anything but.
My son's second birthday is fast approaching and I've been planning his party for weeks. By planning I mean trying to make a guest list comprised of his multiple (yes, I said "multiple" as in more than one) circles of friends (and their parents) and the obligatory family members appear low-key.
Problem is... we're anything but.
By necessity, we limited the guest list to just kids my son's age, and even then, just the kids who...
a) ...he actually plays with,...and we still ended up with a "B-list".
b) ...on a regular basis,
c) ...and actually gets along with...
As soon as someone declines, another invitation drops in the mail. I know that sounds obnoxious, but what can I say, my son is popular.
By the way, can you see how this only makes his own grandmother blowing off the party THAT much more preposterous?
Last year, we had his first birthday party at our house. Actually, we had TWO parties for him at our house. The first was afternoon sandwiches and cake with friends and family. The second was a brunch and cake with his playgroup...
Since that meant cleaning cake off of my sofa, tables, chairs, and kitchen floor not once but TWICE in the same week, I decided to just pay the big bucks and find a venue other than my home this year....
Some place bright, cheerful, and colorful and that my son absolutely LOVES. Some place that just sounds HAPPY and FUN, and more importantly, where they'll clean the cake off the walls for me.
Where else but... GYMBOREE!!!!
Okay, so we are still technically having two parties for him again. The afternoon party for the kids is at Gymboree, then we're having a family cook-out at our house later that same evening. However, the adult-to-toddler ratio with be about seven-to-one, and there will be significantly less cake to be smeared...
I found the cutest invitations at Tiny Prints and am presently on the hunt for fun, creative, non-craptastic, yet inexpensive stuff for the goodie bags. This is where I need your help, Internet...At Wal-Mart, I found some cute, colorful, plastic water "squirters" Okay, GUNS. They are water guns...
At a dollar for six, I thought it would be SO MUCH summertime fun for the kids. I was about to grab with intent to purchase, when I my husband asked, "Um, do you really think it's appropriate to have toy GUNS in a two-year-old's birthday bags?"
Ummm.... can you tell he's the one of us that didn't grow up in Texas? (hehe)
We're talking plastic and bright orange, blue, purple, and pink, and they look absolutely nothing like the real thing.
So, what do you think?
Will putting water guns in the goodie bags mean that I'm a bad mom promoting violence and social ills among the toddler set?
7 comments:
Hey! I've been blog lurking for awhile. I say, Nope. Not a big deal to put toy guns in their goody bags. Besides, don't kids make guns out of anything they can? (chicken drumsticks, blocks, sticks, play dough...)
By the way, I LOVE Tiny Prints. So cute.
Those invites are PRECIOUS!
Water guns are totally appropriate, how else do you stay cool?
I love to do bubbles for the kids, too.
Those are always a hit.
Have so much fun!
Nope,no big deal! It's just a water gun. Like Rachel, I do bubbles too. You can get those bubble blowers for like $10 and the kids will be chasing them forever. It's always a hit!
Thanks for coming by my blog. Good to "meet" you!
My son has a summer birthday and we have provided squirt guns two years in a row now. The kids have a blast with them and it keeps them entertained for quite a while. We also found success with bubbles with giant bubble wands.
I think water guns are very appropriate for summer birthdays...and he's a boy its not like you're giving him water spouting tiaras (that would be inappropriate).
Hiya! I'll de-lurk myself too, I love love love your blog! I would have no problem with the squirt guns either and I also love the bubbles. It will make for great pics:)
i think squirt guns are totally acceptable--kids always have so much fun with them--and the inviets are really sute--I needed some so I went to TinyPrints to take a look and in the process of searching, i found another really cute site called papershouts--invites are all kinds of parties and they also had some great thank you and note cards--kids parties are so fun! Big or small.
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