Jake's 10th Birthday Party
Jake hasn't had a nice Birthday Party in a couple years so this year we let him choose a theme. He picked a CSI type crime scene solving thing. This was the point that Kathy and I realized what he wanted, how big a pain in the tail it was going to be, and started kicking ourselves for reminding him it was his birthday in the first place. He is so scatter brained, he may have forgotten. We will never know.
So anyway, this is what we came up with. We did a little bit of the game of Clue. Kathy came up with a bunch of rhyming clues and we stashed them all around the house and yard and let the kids find them and figure them out.
It took many, many hours to set up and about 25 minutes for the little monsters to complete it and then start asking "what are we going to do now?"
The table, set up nice. Don't worry, it gets wiped out shortly after the start of the party.
We had personal cakes to the candles wouldn't work too well so we went with the numbers.
The cake theme was Bombs. Kathy baked them in the morning and then Jake and the girls did all the decorating. It's supposed to be wicks (The Sparkers) but they look a bit breastish to me.
This is the start of it. I went in flashing my badge, saying we've had a crime and I need help discovering "who dunit". I Deputized them with some badges I got from the Sheriff's Department (Along with the CSI Crime Scene Tape), and told them the first clue was in the living room.
They just got their marching orders. I said that the next clue was out front of the house.
They were running around like chickens with their head cut off. A kid named Alex finally found it tacked to the tree in the middle of the lawn.
I wanted to make sure nobody ate the thumb tacks or anything. These kids were hyped up on speed, or something.
It said that the next clue was in a car. I made sure to lock the Saturn and the Van and left the Prius right there in front of them. That's OK. They tried to rip the doors off the other two cars and leave the Prius alone until I told the it was the the Hybrid.
They next clue was in the Garage. The place of the murder. Now they had to find the murder weapon and Who-Dun-It. The body was actually Jen laying down with me making the chalk outline. We were going to use Kris but she had this huge brace on her foot and it wood have given it away.
Jake's friend Alex (on the left) found this clue, also.
Detective's, hard at work.
The murder weapon (a toy pistol) was in the chest that Jake is kneeling on. The clue was that the weapon was under the clock (on the wall). They looked behind the clock, behind the chest, all over the place. It took them a while to figure out it was in the chest.
This is just after they found the clue in the BBQ. The problem is that they all used the same hand they were holding the lid of the BBQ to grab the note. What happens then, the lid falls on their arms. One of them ended up bleeding. We still haven't heard from any lawyers so I guess we are in the clear.
This clue sent them into the living room to find the last clue.
Our group of Inspector Cluseou's. They found a card with a finger print on it and had to figure out who's it was. Jake was the murderer.
Crime fighting is hard, hungry work.
Kris and Jen love to get their picture taken.
A little "Wind Down Wii" time.
The bombs with their fuses lit.
What would a birthday be without a toy that breaks things around the house but say's it can be used indoors.
The Birthday Boy.