{"id":5576,"date":"2017-05-22T17:41:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T17:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaumaison.us\/?p=5576"},"modified":"2017-05-22T17:41:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T17:41:28","slug":"jacks-7th-birthday-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2017\/05\/22\/jacks-7th-birthday-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack’s 7th Birthday Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday we celebrated Jack’s Birthday! \u00a0Because it usually falls on Memorial Day weekend, and this time it was on Sunday, I bumped the party up a week so we could have it before school ends. \u00a0After planning a Star Wars party all year, he changed to Gravity Falls theme about three months ago. \u00a0There’s a lot less Gravity Falls merchandise than Star Wars (nothing at all versus millions) so this party took a strong DIY attitude.<\/p>\n

Mummy Wrap race was a good starter while we waited for everyone to arrive.<\/p>\n

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The kids snacked on “Mabel Juice” “Chipackers” “Gnome barf” and eyeballs.<\/p>\n

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They also bedazzled their faces and drew their own Waddles the Pig Balloons. \u00a0\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The main event was a treasure hunt. I offered a Team Dipper and Team Mabel trail – what a surprise that they split themselves by gender, right? \u00a0I’m quite proud of the hunt. \u00a0It took them around the house and yard with simple puzzles that needed only a little adult prodding to figure out. \u00a0They had to get creative a few times to find the clue. \u00a0I’m glad they were a little stumped at first, and it gave the groups time to each try ideas. \u00a0At the end they had to bring their pieces together to solve a\u00a0decoded message. \u00a0But they solved the whole thing in about ten minutes. \u00a0The final message told them to look in the basement for Bill Cipher (the show’s villain) that I had made into a pi\u00f1ata.<\/p>\n

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This was the sweetest moment for me. \u00a0Jack came back from the pi\u00f1ata frenzy near tears, saying he didn’t get very much stuff. Four of his friends immediately grabbed fistfuls from their own bags and put it in his. \u00a0What great kids!\"\"<\/p>\n

Cake, presents, and some water balloons and mummy racing finished the party. \u00a0We put on the show to let the kids watch while waiting for parents to pick them up. \u00a0\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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It was a rousing, great success that I’m sure Jack will remember well. \u00a0Shout out to my parents for being GREAT help running the party, and to Ben for jumping in to help out in games or clean up after the ruckus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday we celebrated Jack’s Birthday! \u00a0Because it usually falls on Memorial Day weekend, and this time it was on Sunday, I bumped the party up a week so we could have it before school ends. \u00a0After planning a Star Wars party all year, he changed to Gravity Falls theme about three months ago. \u00a0There’s a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5576"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5593,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576\/revisions\/5593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}