Matisyn's Science Birthday!

Matisyn's Science Birthday!
March 14

Matisyn is 8!  My baby turned 8 years old this weekend, and I can hardly believe it.  It seems like we were just bringing her home from the hospital, watching her learn to take her first steps, and writing about her many adventures getting into trouble on a daily basis!  This blog was very exciting back in those days!  She has grown up so much since then. 

She is our science girl.  She will focus so intently if you are talking about science concepts, or if there is a show on about science.  She loves experiments, and mixtures, and all things scientific.  She is a sponge with science information, and will spout back things she has learned after only hearing them once.  I wish this trick worked with all the subjects!  We talked about a few different party themes, and she pretty easily decided on this one.  We started planning over a month ago, and have had fun putting the party together.  She went shopping with me this time, made me check lists, helped put together the goody bags.  She wanted to be part of everything. 

According to Matisyn and some of the things we have heard, the party was a success!  The kids had a blast, and Matt and I had so much fun doing the experiments with them.  They were all so excited about everything.  When I looked back at the pictures I realized Matisyn was glowing in all of them.  She was just so happy to be celebrating with all of her friends, science style!  There was quite the group because my social butterfly loves all her friends.  She invited 18.  Her friends Hannah and Ashley couldn't come, and we missed them, but that still left a group of 18 counting Matisyn and Emilyn.  We had a full house.  It made things kind of crazy, but also fun with all the energy in the house!

Everything went perfectly until the end when we were running out of time.  Parents started arriving and we were just singing happy birthday, having cupcakes, and making the ice cream creations.  Matt still had an experiment to do too.  There was a little chaos as the party ended, but the kids didn't seem to mind.  Matisyn was bouncing and glowing and happy as can be.  Here was our schedule of events for the party.

Choose safety glasses and take an antibiotic before entering the lab.

Science Station Rotations:

Dry Ice

Magnetism

Mystery Goo

Rocket Launch-Discovering Air pressure

Present Opening

Elephant’s Toothpaste Experiment

Ice cream Creations

The stations went great, and were really fun, but I have to say the rocket launch was probably the highlight.  Overall it was a a very fun time with my eight year old Matisyn and her friends!  Happy Birthday Matisyn!     

 Matt made this cool 8 vinyl sign for Matisyn with all the things about her inside it.  I love the way it turned out!  He also made the invitation for the party at the top, which turned out so cute too.

 The "before" picture of the mystery goo experiment.  Wait until you see the after!  It was cornstarch and water.

 Magnet Experiment Table

 At the end of the party they took home a little goody bag and a petry dish of jello bacteria!

 The dry ice experiment

 My friend Ashly's daughter Emma helped us with the party.  She was in charge of the magnet table, and then getting Lucas to bed.  She was a life saver!

 Matisyn's friend Porter cracked me up with his science lab coat and very excited expressions!

 Emilyn and the mystery goo

 Matt might have called himself Mr. Wizard when referring to his cool dry ice tricks like putting it in a cup and having the lid blow off!

 I was in charge of the mystery goo.  The kids were hilarious with this stuff.  My favorite quote was "I can't wait to get dirty.  My mom would never let me do this at home!"  And we did make quite a mess.  I'm so grateful for the good weather so we could be outside for this party.  It rained and the wind blew like crazy later that night.

 The rocket launch!  I love the kids faces when the rocket blasts off.  They were running all over to catch the bottle, and screaming and cheering!

 I love Emilyn's rocket launch expression!

 The whole gang before we opened presents
Olivia, Emilyn, Avery, Ellie, Kayla, Porter, Matisyn, Alena, Aubrie, Charlotte, Van, David, Jack, Cooper, Reese, Anna, Sierra, and Bryton

I like to take a picture with each friend and Matisyn opening her present from them.  She got some really great presents this year, and felt very spoiled and excited by all of them!  I think the science theme brought out some fun ideas.  She has already enjoyed playing with lots of them.

 

 This was her chair cheer after finishing opening her presents.  She was pretty happy!

 We squeezed in a Happy Birthday song to Matisyn, and the kids quickly made their ice cream creations.  Matisyn still wanted cupcakes, but her big request was ice cream sundaes with all different toppings.  The kids piled their bowls up high!

 Elephant toothpaste Experiment

 The aftermath of the mystery goo!