Hargrave Family: Jack's Fourth Birthday Doctor Party

Sunday, February 28, 2016

Jack's Fourth Birthday Doctor Party

We spent the whole day at Burrough's Park. Jack had a doctor party. He loves the TV show, Doc McStuffins, but since all of DM party stuff is girly, we just went with a general doctor theme. With me working again, I had very little time (and energy) to plan. Jack enjoyed it, though. He played with his best friends on the playground, played in the dirt, ate cake, played games, ran around, and played some more. The older girls rode their bikes and roller skated, climbed trees, and just enjoyed being outside; it was a gorgeous day. We were at the park almost 7 hours, so Jack and I both crashed when we got home.

Eye chart along and few medical gloves blown up with smiley faces. Instant balloons. Ha!

Q-tips made of pretzels and white chocolate. Marshmallow cotton balls.

Jello "shots", tongue depressors, and pretzel thermometers.

Adlie with her jello shot. Don't worry, no vodka in these.

What drink do you serve at a doctor party? Dr. Pepper, or course!

Some of the kids got X-rays.

apparently Arden has scoliosis

The kids played doctor on stuffed animals (like Doc McStuffins does!). They had play stethoscopes, bandages, blood pressure cuffs, syringes, etc etc. Some of the stethoscopes I made out of ribbon, poms, and headbands. They were easy and the kids loved them.

Bear gets daily check-ups so I know he's healthy.

Arden fixing Myleigh's broken arm.

I made band-aids out of tan and white felt, with velcro tabs. They stick well to stuffed animals and are reusable! (not a feature I would want in a regular band-aid, though)

I got a check-up too!

An "Operation" game similar to the traditional board game, but without all the buzzing. The kids used tweezers to operate on the animal (I was trying to draw a bear, but it looks like a mouse.) by pulling candy from different parts of the body. Of course, if you're going to do surgery, you have to scrub-in. Scrub hat, mask, and shoe covers are necessary in order to keep the surgical field sterile.

The cutest surgeon ever!!!!

Arden is trying to pull Air Heads out of the head part.

Myleigh is trying to get Butterfingers out of the hand part. Myleigh took it up a notch by trying the game with surgical gloves. It made it that much harder since the gloves were so big.

Jack ended up knocked the operating table completing over and falling on the patient, so I can't say bear-mouse survived surgery.

I totally slacked on the cake decorating part, which was perfectly fine since they "doctored up" their own cupcakes. I had gobs and gobs of left over sprinkles and sprays and "eyes" and glitter and all kinds of cake decorating stuff. The kids used it all to decorate.

I bet Jack is trying to figure out how to get the squeeze icing directly into his mouth.

They each had a chocolate and vanilla cupcake to decorate. Or like Jack calls it, "Milla."

Emerson, lol! She had a huge glob of icing on her chin and her tongue was going back and forth like a windshield wiper, trying to get it off. Her tongue just wasn't long enough!