Henry's Freeze Party!

Henry came up for the idea for his birthday party 100% on his own this year. One day we were driving in the car, and he said, "For my birthday, I want to have a FREEZE party, and everything will have something to do with cold and frozen stuff." At first Ben and I were scoffing at the idea, but as the details came out, and as we brainstormed some extra ideas together, we started to think that it might actually work. Jiggler ice cubes? Frozen dinners? Games centered around snow and "arctic animals" (Henry's phrase)? It worked for me!

Especially when we found the idea for these snowball cake pops. Irresistible!

Paper snowball fight

Cute kids lined up to catch marshmallow snowballs in their mouths

The winter gloves/candy bar/dice game

Freeze dancing - probably the highlight for most of the kids

Cake pop time!

The true creative genius behind the party, the five-year-old himself, HENRY!

Ava approves of the red velvet inside her cake pop.

Ellis is still thinking about it (but he did go for thirds, so eventually he approved).

What's a freeze party without ice cream? I'm starting to realize that pretty much everything about this party revolved around sugar . . .

All lined up in their snowflake and snowman glasses, ready to watch a blue version of the penguin clay-mation movie Ben found on Netflix at the last minute when Ice Age didn't work out (the kids actually LOVED Pingu though).

My two handsome guys demonstrating their penguin crafts the morning after the party.

With 12 kids of all ages for 3 1/2 hours (we combined the party with our regular babysitting night), Ben and I were pretty exhausted by the end of this party, but it was fun to see Henry's wildest dreams come true. He's a pretty special guy.