April - School Birthday Party

Avery's friend from her class had a birthday party at a local kids play place. We seem to miss most of the class birthday parties, so when we were in town for this one, we made a point to go play with her friends for the afternoon.

The party started off with a treasure hunt. They found things like you would find in a treasure chest.



Avery hunting - she is in the light blue shirt on the left side.



Carrying all her jewels.



After the treasure hunt the kids moved down to climb the cheese wall. That's when I looked over and Avery had burst into tears. She was terrified. She would not do it at all.



Here they are waiting to do the obstacle course. She was so worked up over the wall that she didn't want to do this either! I had to ask the instructor to please talk her into it. I knew she wanted to, but she was scared - maybe because it was all of her classmates. (?)



Here she is very gingerly doing the course.



And the balance beam.



After this party, we decided that we needed to get Avery into some type of group sports so she could get over that fear. We have since joined another type of kids club and are now taking swimming and gymnastics (pics to follow). Her self-esteem had gotten so much better and she is really enjoying these types of outings now. However, she still has the fear of the bounce house. :-)