Well, we have all survived Olivia's party - though to be fair, it was fine - her friends are all fairly sweet little girls and they had a nice time with no trouble. Most of them own at least one bear from the Build-a-Bear-Workshop, from previous parties, so we decided to have a "fashion party" which means you bring your bear along, choose clothes & get a cardboard wardrobe to take it home in, instead of a house box. One of the girls didn't have a bear, so she got a bear (luckily no one seemed to mind that she got a bear and clothes - they just wanted her to have a bear so she could be like them and pick clothes for it - see what I mean about them being nice girls?).
After the shopping extravaganza at Build-a-Bear, we went up to the food court for a lunch at McDonald's - this was actually one of the easiest parties I have ever done - the girl at the build-a-bear place did most of the work there, including keeping track of how much money each had spent and when they reached their limit. And then McDonald's did the food. The hardest part of the whole thing was finding a suitable dessert for the one girl who is allergic to milk and can't have anything dairy (most of the desserts around seemed to contain either ice-cream or chocolate). Anyway, I forgot my camera, but here's a photo of the birthday girl with her bear in some new clothes, including ice skates, and another present (from one of her friends - she hasn't had her family presents yet, as it's not her birthday until Wednesday) - a toy rabbit which moves and goes to sleep and stuff.
Kids today spend so much time trying to be teenagers or grownups, that I think it's really lovely that all of Olivia's friends are really keen on these bears - seems like a proper kid-type thing to do, you know?
1 comment:
I have to agree with you Kate, about letting children be children and not age before their time. I have a 16 year old son and when we went shopping to fill a basket (for a new-born) we found some really soft teddybears. Well, we bought one for the new born and another one for him, which he has on his bed...16 years and a rough and tumble hockey player, soccer player and game to try any sport....oh...he also cross stitches...he just can't sit still, unless he is reading. I am so thankful that I live in the country. I find that there is a big difference between country kids and city kids....might be the fact that we have to drive them a lot more.
Glad they had a nice day....any more parties in the near future?
Later
Peggy
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