Evan's 9th Birthday Party - Games

A bit more was put into planning this year's birthday party. We had a "water themed" party which promised to be a wet event! Beforehand we bought water guns for everyone and you allocated the guns to your cousins (and sister), labeling them in advance. We originally planned to have team games, but since Jayden decided to drop by on the last minute we just had games individually.

In the afternoon, while Mei-mei took her nap, we both sat outside to fill up  the water balloons. It was fun filling it with you and we even smashed a few balloons. Hey.. we needed to test them out to make sure that they are working, right? *grin*

While waiting for Abigail and Ian to reach, you played with Annabelle and Jayden. Finally they arrived and everyone changed into your swimsuits all ready to get drenched. Here are your guns all laid out, waiting for you kids to fill them up. We used Mei-mei's bathtub to be the refill station as that would make it possible for more than one person to fill up their gun and to have more time playing. 

Here are your guns all with name tags

Clockwise from top right: Water balloons floating in water so that they don't burst before play, the refill station and the target which you drew the night before

Kiddies posing for mummy before we started the games 

Here's Mei-mei in her swimming costume

And of course, the birthday boy all smiling and happy

We started off with the first game after filling up the guns. Not too powerful guns, so you guys had to stand nearer to the target to hit anything at all. After a while all the ink washed off and the paper crumbled into a heap of rubbish. Abigail was kind enough to help me remove it from the wall and throw away. 

After the shooting game, we stopped for a quick round of water gun fights. This was followed by a round of "Water balloon baseball" where one child throws the balloon to the other who hits at the balloon with the bat.

We finished with the water at nearly 7 and everyone went to have a quick shower. Next was a round with the pinata which took us so so long to make for this party:

Everyone had a go at it.. many times. We started off with 3 hits each child (blindfolded).. but it did not put a dent in the pinata. Next round was not blindfolded and 15 hits each. Nope.. only managed to get the blue paper off. After that was another 15 hits each. Nope.. nothing came off. Not one tear!

As it was getting late for dinner, we took it down, and put it on the floor where even daddy had a go at it. It broke! No.. not the pinata but the toy bat!! Hahaha.. in the end, I had to take a scissors and cut a hole in it and then you kids made a mad scramble to grab the sweets and small toys inside.