"Birthday girl wants breakfast." "Birthday girl wants curls in her hair." That's how Raegan referred to herself the entire day. My Raegan is 5!!!!! I'm still having a hard time grasping the fact that it's already been five years since I had her. Man, time flies.
Well, for about a month and a half now, Raegan has been talking about her jungle party. I have no idea where she came up with this jungle party, but she was set in her mind and nothing that I would say or suggest could change it. In fact, I took her to the party store just to see what our jungle options were and as we were passing all these fun party ideas: beach party, Barbie Island Princess, pajama party etc..., I would try to steer her into a different direction and she firmly said to me, "MOM, THIS IS MY PARTY, NOT YOURS." Whoa, she put me in my place. Don't worry, I calmly reminded her who was in charge of deciding whether or not we throw her a party at all.
We were able to find some jungle party decorations, games, and pinata at Zurchers, lucky for Raegan, she didn't have to change her theme. We also saved toilet paper rolls for weeks, in order to make enough binoculars for everyone to go on a jungle safari. We decorated with green streamers in the door way, and on the fan, to look like a jungle tree, and had a jungle table cloth, plates, and cupcakes.
Since this is Raegans 5th birthday I let her invite 5 friends to her party, we had to narrow down the list to: Kenlie, Mallory, Jack, Sariah, and Isaac. We decorated the binoculars with feathers, pom poms, foam stickers, and sequence. While the binoculars dried we played jungle bingo and then headed on the jungle safari. The kids used their binoculars to spot jungle animals that were holding clues to where the alligator pinata was hiding. The kids took finding the clues very seriously and were so darling to watch, their expressions when they found a new clue, and were listening for instructions for the next clue were priceless. Kurt ended up having to break the pinata, and with his wind up and hit all the toys and candy were broken into smithereens. So much for our pinata treats.
After presents and cupcakes we played Tiger, Tiger, Lion, which is the jungle version of Duck, Duck, Goose. Then we let the kids run wild for a few minutes until their parents picked them up. Raegan told me it was the best birthday shes had in her entire life. Happy Birthday my Birthday girl!
