Bizarre Foods

 For Isaac's 5th birthday, he decided on "Bizarre Foods" theme after the show Bizarre Foods on the Travel Channel. I decided about 4 weeks prior to his birthday that I should have everything planned out and ready to be executed just in case I wouldn't be there. It was a good thing that I was prepared since I was in the hospital during his party and didn't return home with William until 9pm that night. Between my MIL, Jeanne, Jim's co-worker, Carrie, and our friends, The Rabes, everything went off with out a hitch and all 12 kids had a great time.

The kids were presented with a tasting plate that contained foods such as seaweed, Mexican candy, guavas, kiwis, smoked octopus, feta cheese and rice crackers. Carrie acted as a food anthropologist and taught the kids about different foods from different cultures. The kids thought this was awesome and enjoyed trying all the food. For lunch they had hot dogs cut like squids on green ramen noodles with a coagulated blood drink make out of red kool-aid, red adn black food coloring and mashed up red jello.

They had fun with the eyeball pinata and pin the food on the plate. Pin the food on the plate was such a hit, that the kids didn't want to stop playing it.

I surprised Jim and got him a birthday cake to share for his birthday with the adults that attended. For Isaac, we opted out of cake and gave the kids dirt cups with earthworms and rice krispy treat sushi; both of which were a huge success. Topping the day off, the kids went home with goody bags full of gummy organs, tattoos and pencils.

Isaac got a lot of great gifts from everyone including a Costco size box of seaweed. Jim and I laugh that only our kids would be excited to get seaweed for their birthday.

 Here are some fun pictures that we took of the kids after coming home with William.

Elizabeth got a hold of a fresh tube a Desitin and knew she was in trouble when I took this picture.