The Zimmer Zoo

I took the kids to their first non-family birthday party yesterday. It was pretty much how I had envisioned it: controlled chaos. Lots of kids, lots of adults, lots of loud. They had a woman who came in to sing with the kids for about an hour. She was okay…no Laurie Berkner or anything, but she mostly captured the kids’ attention. Burke and Maggie hung out in the back with me (and a few other shy-types). They’d swing up to the front to grab a toy and come right back. (The lady’s props included stuffed frogs, stuffed fish, toy tools, little pumpkins, and lots of loud musical instruments.) And she encouraged throwing some of them. The kids had a good time with that 🙂

It turned out that Mike was able to work in the morning and be back in time to watch Logan while I brought Burke and Maggie – but Gio, I have to say that you’re awesome for stepping up 🙂

Some notes from the host that I’m going to keep in the back of my head if we ever attempt a non-family party:

• Name tags. All of the kids were wearing one and it was a really great way for the adults to know who was who.
• Home made banana cake. The kids *all* dug into it and it put the moms of peanut allergy kids at ease. Nice!
• Don’t open the gifts while the kids are there. Ya – I was hoping she wouldn’t, and she didn’t. There was no jealousy over what the boy got, no sadness over having to give the gift up, no boredom having to sit through all that unwrapping. AND…it meant I didn’t have to worry that she’d give one piece of cake for my kids to share because they brought a joint gift. LOL

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