Mission Possible: Tim's 8th Birthday

A couple of months ago, Tim was reading a Secret Agent book of mine, and he told me that he'd like to have a Secret Agent birthday party this year! I can't tell you how excited I was about that. It just seemed like an original idea that had a lot of possibilities.

Here are the invitations that I made for it. As you can see, the kids needed to crack the code to get the invitation details.So last weekend, we hosted Timothy's 8th birthday party here at the house. He had 7 of his friends from school come. Ethan and I both dressed up in a trench coat and sunglasses, and we welcomed each of the kids into the house through a carefully cracked door, looking for other spies who may have followed them! Ethan downloaded some music for the event, and played the theme songs from Mission Impossible and James Bond, of course.

When the kids first got here, we put them straight to work learning a new kind of code called the pig-pen code. They had to find their coded name, and write a secret message to a fellow agent.Next, we had them put on secret disguises with clothes from our dress-up box. We had some very creative disguises.After a lunch of Ethan's home-made pizza, we split the boys and girls apart and played games involving target practice (with velcro darts), and a game Tim named "Sly Spy."

We then had cake and ice-cream. Tim decided that he'd like to have a bomb for a cake. What made it extra fun was the mini-sparklers that Ethan found to be the bomb's fuse! The kids really enjoyed watching it, and were all a little disappointed when the cake didn't actually explode all over the kitchen!After the kids were done with their cake, I went to get them their goody bags. But oh no! The enemy spy had hidden them somewhere in the house, and left them clues to find them. The clues were very tricky, I thought, but not for these super-spies. In fact, they found them so quickly that mommy spy had to make up some games at the end to kill some time!

All in all, it was a great party. And now my Secret Agent Tim is 8 years old. Impossible!