Hayes' Birthday Party

Hayes wanted a Scooby-Doo birthday.  Adam and I were both excited about the theme.  As I explained before, birthdays are a big deal at the Schwartz house.  And so are the cakes!

So far, we have always just had birthday parties with family at our house, with the occassional mom-doesn't-feel-like-cleaning-so-we'll-have-it-elsewhere.  Since this was like our umpteenth party at home, we wanted to excite things a bit.  We have a friend who owns a moonbounce company and Craig was so kind to lend us a bounce house with slide.  The kids had no idea.  Adam had it set up before they got off the bus.

My little birthday boy who on any other day would take his sweet time mosy-ing himself home, sprinted the whole way with an ear to ear grin.

They played in the bounce house for several hours while the guests arrived.  All the presents were collected on a table.

It was present time.  The kids hurried in only to find all the presents missing!

It was a mystery! 

For their first clue, they had to throw dog bones into Scooby-Doo's bowl, but in funny ways.  (From 6 ft high, off the back of Uncle Shep, without using your hands, using the forehead pancake method, using your mouth, etc. until they had collected 10 bones)

For the next clue, they had to select who they thought was the oldest person in the room and mummify them.  They chose Grandma, who is ironically the youngest grandparent (sorry Grandma!).

For their final clue, they had to correctly identify objects in a baggie without looking.  The first bag had real crickets in it to help make the rest of the items believable.

Beetle guts = Cold canned corn
Lizard tongues = Pickled ginger
Worms = Spaghetti
Dried Orange Peel = Gator Tail

Hayes put his hand in the first bag, felt the crickets, and refused to do anymore.  The boys both couldn't believe that what they were touching was actually nothing gross.

They successfully solved the missing present mystery!

Happy Birthday, Hayes-ee Bays-ee!