Dennis always wants to play the games at fairs and carnivals... you know, the rip off games that you pay $5 a pop to loose. But if you are lucky and win you get a dollar store quality toy.
Yep. I always say NO WAY THATS A RIP OFF.
So, we decided to make our own carnival for the birthday.
Here are some photo opps. I drew them and Dennis painted them.
The Pinata was cotton candy!
Something that I am learning as a mom: some times it is more important for my kids to have fun experiences than for me to throw a beautiful party. I had a cake all planned out in my head... But so did Dennis. He wanted to frost the cake so bad. After all, it is HIS birthday.
It turned out perfect. Just like a carnival, don't you think?
Dennis and Charlie, a good friend from church.
Soren was so nice to pose for me in all of the photo opps. Everyone else didn't want to.
This game you had to shoot down the ping pong balls off the golf tee with a water gun. It was legit.
We had a girl from church come and do some face painting... though most kids wanted to paint their own faces... This is Dennis's friend from school Kai.
Christian is watching.
James and Soren taking a try at the water guns.
We even had a visit from pinkie the clown. She gave out necklaces and other prizes like swirly straws and animal bug eye pens.
This game you throw bouncy balls in the glass jars. It was legit as well.
My friend Andrea got her face painted as a tiger and was sooo nice to watch Andrew while we controlled the chaos.
Owen came. We ate Corn Dogs and Popcorn and cotton candy.
The balloon pop game. Charlie won.
Dennis, Soren, Pinkie, James, Kai, Christian, James, Owen, Micheal and Charlie
My favorite girls.
The pinata didn't last as long this year.
James gave it 3 solid wacks in the center and it all came down. Luckily, nobody really cared. They all got to give the dead pinata a few wacks.. and they all got a few pieces of candy.
Dennis was soooo happy. He got Legos from almost all of his friends... the other two gifts were a robot and a neon sign thing... both of which he loved. After he opened all his gifts, he turned to me and said, "mom! Everything I got, I wanted!"
He did a good job with the face paint. LOL. He topped his cake with cotton candy. It looked awesome.
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