Thursday, April 3, 2014

Nerf Birthday Party

Ally’s friend River turned 7 and his party was a nerf theme – actually it was a capture the flag playing with neighborhood friends birthday party. The party was at our local Community Center – they rented the gym.

I wasn’t sure how Ally would be with it. She had never actually shot a gun ever of any kind. The closest thing so far had been a “pig popper” toy that you squeeze the pig’s tummy and a soft ball shoots out. So a full out nerf gun war with lots of people…

But she loved it! As soon as we got there Max asked her to play tag. Then when the nerf guns came out, one of the dads showed her how to do it. Eventually Olive arrived, and the two of them were buddy buddy having fun with it.

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It took a bit for them to get the hang of it – and Ally was shot a couple of times, and had to lie down until a team mate tagged her.

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Ally had a blast – each kid got safety goggles and their own gun to use. That is River’s Dad dead on the right.

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Hanh and her daughter Kai had fun trying to shoot her son and Kai’s brother, Liem.

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Lucia (Olive’s mom), Summer (below running) and I even got in on the action.

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The cake and cupcakes were bulls-eye themed.

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Which went really with the target practice and theme of the party.

I was a bit skeptical of the theme – I am not in to guns at all and frankly am still a bit ambivalent about the whole experience and Ally’s exposure to guns. But it was a very fun party – no one got hurt, all the kids had a terrific time and that is what really matters. They played 8 games of Capture the Flag and River’s team (with Ally and Olive and Liem) won 6 out of 8 games. It could not have gone better. New things are good – and exposure to different is good to. I was so glad to be invited and spend time with our friends and we really enjoyed ourselves.

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