Birthday Party

We celebrated Katey's 9th birthday a little early this year with a fun Olympics of the Mind type party. There were 10 kids in total and we had a great time!

The festivities began with building card houses. The kids worked very hard on them, got very creative and did a great job!

Katey has dubbed this one the bird nest house.

This one was the tallest built!

And this one is the most effort behind a house!

Next up was the Egg Drop competition. The kids had to build a structure that would protect an egg from a 9+ foot drop! Here are the creations:

And our only kid egg that survived:

Mike created an egg contraption as well. Here is video of his being dropped...will it survive??



Poor Daddy!

After the egg drop we did some inventions. The kids got into groups and were each given a bag of items to be used for an invention of their choosing. No pictures of this, but one group made a ramp into a piggy-bank, one made a smoothie stand, one did a crazy, spikey SpongeBob thing and the most creative of all was a radio-active pizza (if you eat it you will glow in the dark so you won't be afraid of the dark anymore!).

Next came cake and ice cream! Katey chose to have a torte-like cake. A delicious pairing of Mom A's homemade chocolate cake with Ann's homemade frosting. YUMMY! And Katey did a great job of choosing colors for frosting. We had left-over batter so you can see we also did some cupcakes.


I couldn't let this post go without attaching the video of Katey blowing out her candles. Enjoy!!



Our last activity of the day was an imagination game - I showed an object and the kids had to come up with things it could be used for. Below is one of Katey's friends using a mop head as a hula skirt! This was a really fun game for the kids and they got very creative!

Overall it was a wonderful day and I think everyone really enjoyed being here to celebrate with our not-so-little-almost-9-year-old Katey! A special thanks to Grammy for all of her help with the party!