Darby had a birthday party (no 8) to attend at Celebration Station this evening. There must have been twenty kids in the one party alone. We're talking second graders here. Chaos was plentious. In fact, I think the guy that studied, wrote about, and probably won awards for, chaos theory, went to one of these.
At one point a kid bouncing a balloon in the air hit a plate of birthday cake being carried to a hungry guest, thereby knocking the cake onto the floor, followed seconds later by the facility party helper stepping directly on the cake that was knocked onto the floor. That cake didn't just fall off the plate onto the floor, mind you. It was propelled upwards a good six inches before heading toward the floor at 9.8 meters per second.
And then there was the present handling. There were so many kids and so many presents and not enough helper parents that many of the kids themselves were running to grab presents to hand to the birthday boy. Try keeping track of that!
I'm not even getting into the bumper boats fiasco... so much chaos, not enough blog.
But everyone had fun. With, in, and despite the chaos. I know Darby had fun, being at her first post-cast event in two months.
A non-chaotic observation from the party... Darby is getting pretty good at air hockey. She beat a boy 7-3. I smell an xmas present idea.
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