Party Time!

 Summertime is birthday time for our kiddos.  I have done the combined party thing but it is definitely getting more tricky as the kids are getting older and have different sets of friends.  We've done the princess/knight slaying the dragon party and the pirates/mermaids party but this year, Lila wanted Dora (which the other 2 despise), Brad wanted superheroes, and Sky wanted Hello Kitty.  Sooo, we decided to do something crazy-have 3 separate parties in 1 day!

We rented a bounce house and tables and chairs for the day and Lila's party went from 12-2.  It was very fun!  I pretended that Swiper swiped the cake and we had to consult the map to find out where Swiper's hideout was.  Brad was the Grumpy Old Troll who made the kids solve a riddle before they could pass over a little bridge.  Then we went to a tree in our yard and Sky threw ping pong balls at the kids and they had to look in backpack to decide what would be best to clean up the ping pong ball mess (a rock, a shovel, or a flower?).  We finally made it to Swiper's hideout and found the delicious Dora cake.  I made 3 different cakes, one for each party, but forgot to take pictures of them all.  I had let each kid pick out the cake flavor that they wanted.  Lila picked chocolate, Brad picked vanilla and Sky picked funfetti.
Then the kids played pin the tail on Swiper.

Each kid also got a pinata that went along with the theme of their party.  

Brad's party was from 2:30-5.  Isaiah was pretty funny wearing Brad's broken pinata!

 Above, everyone was waiting patiently for their turn at bat.

Brad's cake was the easiest since we just used one of his Batman figurines as a cake topper.

 We played a few games at Brad's party.  Sky dressed up as the villian, the Cheetah and the guests ad to try to tag her.  If they tagged her, she would throw candy out of her basket.  Below we played the wonderball, but instead of a ball, we used green hair gel, which I told everyone was kryptonite.  "The kryptonite goes round and round, to pass it quickly you are bound, if you're the one to hold it last, the game for you has surely passed."  Whoever was left with the kryptonite was out.

 Below is Sky at bat for the Dora pinata at Lila's party.

 Lila takes a moment to enjoy her Dora cake.

 Sky's party was from 5:30-8 and I don't really remember much of it, to be honest.  The exhaustion had set in by then and the kids were older so they were happy to just do their own thing.  Sky ran a game of pin the bow on Hello Kitty and everyone enjoyed her Hello Kitty cake.  All told, it was a fabulous day and so much fun to celebrate our kids!