Party Animals

Today was my nephews birthday party and they live quite far away, so we made arrangements with my brother-in law that they could take Donald and Joy, and we would take their 2 oldest in the car so they wouldnt have to spend as much on bus fares to get to the party.

we arrived at their house at 12:30 and they were getting the 2 o clock bus so we had some time to pass. Teo was napping so I helped my 12 year old niece with a 1000 piece puzzle she was working on and my 10 year old niece gave joy a makeover.

Oh, she was very pretty but I had spent a great deal of time brushing her hair myself earlier.

before the makeover she looked like this

at 2 o clock we set off on a very quiet journey to the birthday party. we arrived a bit too early so went for a walk. as we were heading to the party venue after our walk I got a phonecall asking how to get to the party venue from the bus stop, I asked where exactly they were and she described the location, I looked around. 'I can see you!' I shouted. 'where? I cant see you' came the reply. eventually she spotted us but we were seperated by a fence so I told her to keep going in the direction she was heading and I ran around some buildings to where there was a bridge and found them, we headed to the venue together. Teo wasted no time and went straight for the bouncy castle.

Donald opted for the soft play toys and built a little town with his cousin

I didn't see much of Joy, she was everywhere and nowhere all at once!

I had to keep taking Teo on the bigger bouncy castle (with help from his cousins). It was fun, but exhausting!

I was relieved when it was time to take the kids through to the next room to eat. They all got happy meals!

after eating, they played pass the parcel, and musical bumps, Donald won musical bumps and said 'I knew I could win one of them!' I'm actually proud of him for not crying when he lost the first game.

They each took home a party bag. we walked them all over to the bus stop then headed back to the car for another quiet journey home. back at my brother in laws house they opened their party bags, except Teo, poor we soul was exhausted and fell asleep in the car!

We let him sleep on the couch while we had a cup of tea and the kids all played. Inside their party bags was animal masks and they had lots of fun playing with them!

then again, so did I! (when, I got home that is.)

I helped my 12 year old niece with the 1000 piece puzzle some more while the kids played and Teo slept but then someone had to drag me away from it so we could go to morrisons before it closed.

It was a fun day and at the end of it all we were all just party animals. literally.