CR 8th Birthday

CR was my baby for the longest time and it's hard to see him getting older! He's such an awesome boy. At the end of the school year they had an AR store. CR had 245 points! So he bought this eagle clock. He accumulated so many points this term by reading all of the Harry Potter Books. They read the first one as a class and he got interested that he could not stop. He is such a fast reader. I know he reads faster than I do!

After reading all of the books, he decided he wanted to have a Harry Potter Birthday Party. We were late in starting the preparations and so last Thursday we finally drove around and passed out the invitations. K worked on these, and they were a letter from Howarts. Friday was the last day of school and I spent my time researching what we would do and finalizing all of the plans.

So that is what I have been up to since last week. This was a big family project. KC was Professor Dumbledore, I was McGonnigal, the girls were Prefects, and G was a house elf. We sewed 12 HP cloaks and hats, made 12 wands, made a cake, found all kinds of fun candy, decorated, made signs, made a sorting hat, came up with fun games, divided galleons, prepared potions, etc. etc.

The party was last night and we had 12 eighth year old boys!! I had never had a boy party and it was loud and crazy. The kids came in and they had to give us a password to get in. I was at Gringotts and gave them their money to buy their cloaks, hats, and wands. C was selling the clothes and S the wands. K was escorting the kids. KC was popping poppers when the wand chose the kid then he would make a popping sound. Then the kids got sorted into houses. We had a walkie talkie in the hat and KC was in the pantry talking. Then they made a slug slime in potions class. Afterwards they went to Care of Magical Creatures Class where they played Hoo's Headwig.

Then it was time for cake with butter beer to drink. Then they played Levitation with balloons. Once they got tired of that CR opened presents. Then it was time for the treasure hunt to find the Sorcerer's Stone. At the end they got to go to Honeydukes to get candy and to Zonkos to get joke toys.

All in all. It was a great party. I could not have done it without the help of the girls and KC.