Messy Party

Our friend, Teri, has a great tradition to mark the end of summer. This year was the third annual Messy Party. Yes the gathering lives up to it's name. Each year, she adds one more messy component and makes it that much messier. Kalyn, Xander and I packed a lunch, a few towels and a few changes of clothes and headed out last Friday to the party.

Kalyn is all about this party. It takes her all of about 30 seconds to find something and get it on her shirt. Xander was a bit more cautious. He came up to me, lifting up his hands saying, "Mommy . . . wet." I told him that it was okay. He responded with, "No, Mommy. Not okay." But he did get messy. He did get wet and he did have fun. The party included a sheet to spray paint upon, a pool of spaghetti noodles, a Georgia mud pool, a pool full of water and water guns, bubbles, a station with shaving cream and food coloring, a sand box and an area to paint smaller sheets of fabric and little clay statues.

A shaving cream fight between Britton, Allie, Kalyn and Sam

Picassos at work

Xander, Ivey and Kalyn having fun with the shaving cream. Kalyn's taking full advantage of the chance to get messy.

Spraypainting the big sheet

Spaghetti slinging (we just have to make sure this doesn't happen the next time we serve spaghetti for dinner)

Sitting in the sand (a great combination with a wet little boy)

The great part about the party is that they kids just run from area to area, coming to you only to be hosed off every so often. The kids got completely filthy and had an amazingly wonderful time with their friends!! What a great way to end the summer.