alicecooper
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Okay guys I could use a few ideas for my DD and DS2's birthdays in a few weeks time.
Basically :
Jason will turn 5 on 24th September and Lydia will turn 9 on 25th September.
Lydia has 2 friends from school, both live within walking distance from our house. Kayleigh is 10 and Lucille is 9.
Kayleigh's family has no car so they find it difficult to get anywhere that is far.
Lucille's family has a car.
She also has 2 other friends. Summer is 8 and Courtney is 10.
Summer's dad lives next door to us, and she visits him every second weekend. Other than that, she lives with her mother, but I don't know where she lives or what transport arrangements are like (though I know her dad drives a car).
I have no idea where Courtney lives, but I know her parents are deceased. Her Aunt lives on our estate and she comes to stay with her every couple of weeks, but it doesn't seem to be specific days that she's here, it's just whenever they feel like it. She's here at the moment, and was here a few days ago. I have no clue what her transport situation is like.
Jason, on the other hand, he has 1 friend on our street, Dominic, who is 5, but his mother doesn't like us particularly, and whenever we invite him to birthdays she always says no (though she doesn't mind if they play together outside on regular days).
Other than that, he doesn't start primary school until 3rd September, and even then for the first couple of weeks he's doing half-days, so I have no clue whether or not he'll make any friends before his birthday.
Both of their birthdays fall on school days (Jason's on a Wednesday and Lydia's on a Thursday).
To make matters more complicated, Lydia and Alex (our 7 year old) have swimming lessons on Wednesdays after school, which I'm reluctant for them to miss, though if push comes to shove they can miss it if they have to.
We can't do cinema because we have Nathan our 13 month old to consider, and he can't sit through a film.
We don't want to do bowling because we did that for Lydia's 7th birthday and we might as well have not bothered, they all got bored half way through the game and just wandered off to the arcades, so it's a waste of money.
None of them want to do soft play or restaurant as they did that last year.
I suggested just having friends round to the house for pizza, but Lydia was like "Well that's bit boring, Courtney and Summer are always in our house when they're round here anyway!"
I'm at a loss! Lydia insists she'd like her friends to share her birthday - or at the very least for us to organise something on the weekend closest to their birthdays.
Likewise though I don't want to make it all about Lydia, and have Jason feeling left out that he's got no friends.
And we need to consider Alex and Nathan too of course.
And not forgetting that in late September the weather is a bit dicey, so organising an outdoor party probably isn't wise, as it'll likely just rain.
Argh I'm just baffled!
Basically :
Jason will turn 5 on 24th September and Lydia will turn 9 on 25th September.
Lydia has 2 friends from school, both live within walking distance from our house. Kayleigh is 10 and Lucille is 9.
Kayleigh's family has no car so they find it difficult to get anywhere that is far.
Lucille's family has a car.
She also has 2 other friends. Summer is 8 and Courtney is 10.
Summer's dad lives next door to us, and she visits him every second weekend. Other than that, she lives with her mother, but I don't know where she lives or what transport arrangements are like (though I know her dad drives a car).
I have no idea where Courtney lives, but I know her parents are deceased. Her Aunt lives on our estate and she comes to stay with her every couple of weeks, but it doesn't seem to be specific days that she's here, it's just whenever they feel like it. She's here at the moment, and was here a few days ago. I have no clue what her transport situation is like.
Jason, on the other hand, he has 1 friend on our street, Dominic, who is 5, but his mother doesn't like us particularly, and whenever we invite him to birthdays she always says no (though she doesn't mind if they play together outside on regular days).
Other than that, he doesn't start primary school until 3rd September, and even then for the first couple of weeks he's doing half-days, so I have no clue whether or not he'll make any friends before his birthday.
Both of their birthdays fall on school days (Jason's on a Wednesday and Lydia's on a Thursday).
To make matters more complicated, Lydia and Alex (our 7 year old) have swimming lessons on Wednesdays after school, which I'm reluctant for them to miss, though if push comes to shove they can miss it if they have to.
We can't do cinema because we have Nathan our 13 month old to consider, and he can't sit through a film.
We don't want to do bowling because we did that for Lydia's 7th birthday and we might as well have not bothered, they all got bored half way through the game and just wandered off to the arcades, so it's a waste of money.
None of them want to do soft play or restaurant as they did that last year.
I suggested just having friends round to the house for pizza, but Lydia was like "Well that's bit boring, Courtney and Summer are always in our house when they're round here anyway!"
I'm at a loss! Lydia insists she'd like her friends to share her birthday - or at the very least for us to organise something on the weekend closest to their birthdays.
Likewise though I don't want to make it all about Lydia, and have Jason feeling left out that he's got no friends.
And we need to consider Alex and Nathan too of course.
And not forgetting that in late September the weather is a bit dicey, so organising an outdoor party probably isn't wise, as it'll likely just rain.
Argh I'm just baffled!
