Since Kaitlyn was going to be turning 8 while we were in Arizona we thought we would do her birthday party before we left. I needed it to be small so we invited only 6 kids from her class which was really hard to do for Kaitlyn because she is friends with everyone. The kids in her class are kind of friends in groups and Kaitlyn is friends with all of the groups. There was the
Fabianna, Max, and
Cathalijne group and their was the Jet, Carline, and
DaisyRae group. Kaitlyn had her closest friends Terrance, Nina and Inez but then she needed to
choose between these groups. Kaitlyn wanted to invite Jet, but seeing as
Cathalijne is our neighbor and
Fabianna and Max had both come over to play a lot this year I though we had better invite that group. Really if Kaitlyn had it her way should would have just invited everyone which I would have let her do, If I wasn't trying to get ready to go to Arizona.
So we had our small group and we first came to our house and had the kids make pizza. They loved it. Each one made there very own, just the way they liked it.
Then Brian took the kids out on a
scavenger hunt around the neighborhood. We had clues
hidden and little treasures
hidden that they had to find. They had to count out paces and it was a lot of fun. I helped out a bit but I kept running home to change out the pizza's that were baking in the oven. But during the time that I was there I got to experience all of
Cathalijne personality. Something I wasn't really aware of before because Kaitlyn plays with her outside in the evenings after school and last year at her birthday party my dutch was so poor that I just didn't understand much of what the kids were saying.
But this year
Cathalijne was going on about how she was too cool to do this
scavenger hunt. Even though all the other kids were doing it and being part. She demanded that
Fabianne not do it and just hang out with her. At one point Max got so mad at her for not being part that he just chewed her out and I could have kissed that boy for doing that!
Fabianne is an
incredibly shy, submissive girl and she pretty much does what ever to keep the peace so when
Cathalijne says she has to do something she will say 1 time she doesn't want to and then
Cathalijne will tell her she has to and then
Fabianne goes along with it. I feel bad for
Fabianne. Max is a very sweet boy, he gets along well with
Cathalijne and allowing her to dictate everything he is going to do. But every once in awhile he has enough and this was one of those times and he let
Cathalijne have it. It didn't help any though, she only went off and pouted.
At least the
rest of the kids were having a lot of fun doing their
scavenger hunt.
In fact Inze Mom said that she demanded that her mom had to do the same thing at her birthday party.
The
scavenger hunt was done and Brian brought all the kids back to the house. The Pizza's still were not ALL done being cooked so we had the kids hide the gifts in the house and Kaitlyn had to go search all through the house to find them.
Cathalijne of course could not join in and she would not let
Fabianne go either. So they sat at the table while
Cathalijne made up a song about how wonderful she was. I got my camera out because I thought I would like a picture of this but she
luckily has great camera since and is certain to smile for every picture.
Kaitlyn found all of her gifts and had a great time opening all of her gifts.
Below is Kaitlyn with Terrance, (he moved here this year from Aruba). He is her crush. She told me she is going to marry him. They are so funny, they will have arguments and go to their corners and then after about 5
mins they come back together and talk about it and work them out. It is so funny. Kaitlyn refuses to tell Terrance that she loves him. She just wants him to be her best friend for ever! Almost every day they play after school on the
Wii or out back on the Trampoline. They have one great thing in common. They both speak English and Kaitlyn loves that after school she can talk to Terrance in English.
The next picture is Kaitlyn with Nina- Kaitlyn and Nina have been friends all year. There friendship has been a little rocky. At the
beginning of the year Nina only wanted to play with Kaitlyn and the were best of friends but then somewhere along the way Nina realized that some day Kaitlyn may move back to the States and that would mean she would move away from her. Nina was mad at Kaitlyn and she stopped playing with Kaitlyn and was really moody and even started talking bad about her to other kids. It was really hard for Kaitlyn she didn't understand what was going on.
Luckily Terrance moved in at this time and she was able to make friends with him and then I was able to talk with Nina's mom and get things figured out. Kaitlyn and Nina are still good friends just not as close they play 1 or 2 times a week but not everyday like it used to be.
This is
Fabianne, She was to shy to have a direct picture taken with Kaitlyn so this is the best we could do. I really like
Fabianne. She comes over ever few weeks to ask if she can jump with Kaitlyn on the Trampoline and they have a nice time jumping or playing out side.
Next is Max who is so sweet. He is so much like Kaitlyn, He loves to just be outside playing.
A lot of times when he is next door at
Cathalijne's house playing he will talk her into
coming over to play with Kaitlyn.
This is
Cathelijne. I think I have said enough.
Next is Inez, Who is another one of
Kaitlyn's dear friends. Inez and Kaitlyn will Also play each week. Inez loves running and playing. I think she ran herself tired at the birthday party. Even when Nina was being a little crazy, Inez was always a true friend to Kaitlyn. It was Inez mom that help me figure things out because Inez would go home and tell her mom how she didn't like what Nina was saying and then Inez mom would let me know what was happening and then I was able to take care of it all. I really like that little girl.
And of course Brianna, they are the best of sisters- Brianna gave Kaitlyn our family gift to open up. More picture of the fun we had with it and what it was.
Pizza is now finally done and we can all eat dinner. Yea. Except
Cathelijne sat at the top of the table and informed everyone she was the Queen and that they couldn't eat unless she ate and that they couldn't do anything unless she said it was o.k. (I decided Next year we are inviting Jet's group of friends to the birthday party).
After they were done eating everyone went out and got on the trampoline. Everyone was anxiously waiting to get on. I had no idea they wanted to go jump so badly. If I knew we could
entertain them this way I wouldn't have put so much time into the
scavenger hunt.
After we got everyone home, which was a task in itself because
Cathelijne didn't want to go home she wanted to go to
Fabianne's house. I told her that was fine but she had to ask her father first since he was next door and she threw a major fit about it and how she just wanted to go to
Fabianne's house and call him from there. I didn't let her do it and I made her go ask her father. Her dad said no and that it was to late and the she threw another Fit but that was his problem now and not mine! I was off to take the other kids home :-)
So After everyone was home, Brian wanted to open the gift he got for Kaitlyn. Which was of course a microscope. Him and the girls played with it. They collected water samples from the canal and pieces of grass to look at and all sorts of things. They had fun.
