The Late Night

Joe had been wanting to invite some friends over to play night games in our yard. I told him last weekend that I thought Friday would be great for that. Then the weather turned and I realized that Friday was going to be cold, and maybe a little wet. So I told Joe we had to have a change of plans. Now instead of inviting anyone he wanted to come play outside, he needed to narrow it down to no more than 4 friends, who could come over for a late night, where we would play indoor games.

Joe thought that sounded great too, I told him to only invite three or four kids, because any more than that would make it hard to find games to play, and I didn't want things to get too crazy. Joe knew right away who he wanted to have come and started inviting them. I got busy looking for games that 6 boys (Josh of course was going to be in on the late night too.) would have fun playing. I really considered just having a movie, but Joe wanted games.

Friday night arrived and the late night began. We started off with just having the boys play with Lego's. I put out a few goodies (mini candy bars and popcorn) and the night was starting off nice. When the Lego building started to slow down, I brought out the first game. Being October we decided to have a mummy race. I divided the boys into two teams. One boy was the mummy and the other two boys on the team had to wrap them in toilet paper. The first team to run out of toilet paper wins. The boys loved this. At the end of the game the two mummy's ripped themselves out of the toilet paper. I asked the boys if they would pick it up and put it in the trash. They picked it up all right, and then the toilet paper fight began. Before too long there was toilet paper everywhere, and the boys were having a great time.

When the toilet paper throwing starting getting too crazy we put it all in the trash. Then we went for a calmer game and started playing Apples to Apples. We ended the night with a good old fashioned game of charades. Which somehow ended in a big wrestling match.

I am still not quite sure how that happened.

It was a great late night, and all of the boys had lots of fun. I am sure we will have a few more of these, but for some of them I think we will watch a movie...........Although I have a feeling that could end in a wrestling match too.