Uncle Sam wants YOU!
Sep 21 '00
at a birthday party. My son is turning 7 October 4th and he is having an Army party. We've never tried anything like this so I hope it will be O.K. (maybe I should wait until AFTER the party to write this Epinion. Oh well, I'll do an update.) If any of you have any great ideas to add to this, I would love to hear them! Please leave any ideas in comments.
All the kids are asked to come in Army or camouflage clothes, if they have them. If not, anything grungy. No dress uniforms here! I'll have camouflage make-up to paint their faces, if they want. My husband will be wearing his BDU's from the National Guard. I tried to get him to tell his Guard buddies to park a tank in our front yard but supposedly that is against regulations. (I think they're just being uncooperative.)
Here's what we have planned so far for games. We have a moonwalk in the shape of a Humvee. In the backyard we will be setting up an obstacle course. (Ideas for this welcome!) We'll have something for them to crawl over, ropes for them to alternate their feet through, a tunnel, something medium high to climb over, a sand pit, a water hole (child's swimming pool, and something to belly crawl under. The final game will be a 'battle.' All the kids will get a water gun and we'll divide them in 2 teams and stage a mock battle. But the piece de resistance will be having my husband ambush all the kids with a super-soaker. My son doesn't even know about this. I think all the kids will love it!
Here is what his invitation will say:
General C.W. is mustering his troops for a birthday sortee. Report to duty on 7Oct00 at 1300 hours. (Thats 1:00p.m. for you civilians.) Tactical Assembly Area is 123 Main Street. R.S.V.P. to 555-1234 by 4Oct00 or you will be court martialed.
This will be printed on green and black camouflage looking cards. Across the very bottom will read:
Don't be AWOL.
I tried to talk C.W. into serving MRE's (Meals Ready to Eat) which is what soldiers in the field eat but he drew the line at that. He said we would just "pretend that pizza is Army food." Of course, we will have a cake with an Army theme and ice cream.
I think this will be loads of fun and something different. So if you are in Memphis on October 7th, come on down to our Army party. Just make sure you R.S.V.P.
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