Birthday Tea

So, on Friday after school, we picked up all the boys from Tom's class and brought them back to ours.  It wasn't my idea for sure, but Tom wanted everyone home to watch a movie and they are pretty good boys so we couldn't come up with a good enough excuse not too.  We did limit the boys to his year though, some of the boys in his class (which is different to his year) are a nightmare.

The Year 4 boys

They were high spirited but good on the way home, they put the keyboard on as soon as they got in and they were all dancing away to the various tunes they found.  All very well natured, they took turns and were generally being quite silly but in a good way.

I had made a huge bowl of popcorn and a jug of juice and luckily had just enough plastic bowls and beakers for them all, they made themselves at home and dug in.

We had bought Zootropolis for them to watch - we have seen it before, but it is great - set in a world populated by all types of animals, where a rabbit wants to join the police, but normally you need to be a 'big' animal: bull etc to be a cop, so he has to prove himself.  Of course he does, though adventures etc.  There are some great scenes with sloths who run the bank v e r y  s l o w l y who I think are the best characters.  Anyway, whilst the phone was on the boys were completely quiet - there were 7 of them in the lounge and you could hear a pin drop.  In fact there was so little work involved that I ended up catching up on my sewing!!!!!

The cake!

I cooked sausages and burgers for tea - didn't bother with veggies - kept it really easy.  They ate up and then disappeared upstairs to play hide and seek.  All high volume, but they didn't go in rooms they were told not to and nothing got broken or damaged even, not bad with 7 of them going great guns.

They came back down for the cake (West Bromwich Albion badge: chocolate and cherry flavour) and then went back to play hide and seek pirate zoo thingy.  This involved them all dressing up (or down), arranging all the soft toys, getting out swords / light up things and generally being loud.  All good fun.

It was 7.30 by the time we managed to get them bundled into the car and on the way home.  It went so well that I might even do it again next year and I never thought I would say that...