Tonight we had a movie night for Blue's 6th Birthday, he actually turns 6 tomorrow but as it was half price pizzas at the pizza shop and its only Tuesday- Thursday we decided to make it a Thursday night movie night.
It got to the last day of term and despite asking Blue numerous times whether he wanted a party and him declining, he decided the night before the last day of the school year that actually he would quite like a few of his school friends round to watch a film. So I printed some movie tickets out the night before and sent them in the book bag and reminded him to pass them out during the day. When he came home that evening sure enough they were still in his book bag so I spent the first day of the holidays trying to locae each of the parents to invite his friends!
So 6 friends quickly became 12 when he added a couple extra from his swimming class and then a few more from football lessons too!
It was all very last minute as we had a visit from Blues auntie and cousin and we had been to the park and out for some lunch so we finally came home at 3pm and our guests were due to arrive at 4. We hadnt put any balloons or decorations up, bought any party bags or sorted a cake! We also had to get Pink and Blue washed and ready to greet the guests and so we were cutting it very fine!
We managed to find a film he wanted to watch and downloaded it and then bought some popcorn and fruit shoots. We ordered some half price pizzas and away we went. Blue had an amazing time eating pizza with his mates and they even managed to watch a total of 30 minutes of the film before demoloshing the fancy dress cabinet and off they went wrestling in the garden, boys will be boys so we let them run off some steam before we gave them icecream and packed them off to their parents 3 hours later armed with a gigantic lolly as it was all I could find rather than party bags at short notice!
I was particularly impressed with Blues cake, as we didnt want to fill them up with too much sweet junk whilst they were here as they would be having popcorn and icecream I very quickly made a movie themed cake. I started by turning my fruit bowl upside down and sticking the bags of butterkist popcorn around the sides, I then made a secod layer by stacking the fruitshoots on top and then positioned the dvd on the top and then placed a few of the lollies that would be take home gifts around to make it a bit more pretty. I stuck 6 of the candles onto some ribena cartons and placed them around too so it looked quite good and he still got the effect and to blow out his candles.
Thats it now, he's in bed tucked up and were hoping to take him to Pleasure Island tomorrow for his birthday so that will be a nice surprise.
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