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Surprising because the whole school year we have only been aware of one other birthday party, and now there are two at the same time.
Gotcha. For future reference, if you're ever worried about numbers, you'd be surprised by how many kids don't make it to the party. One always gets sick and can't make it. From my experience, the parties were mixed gender until third grade. That's when boys had boy parties and girls had girl parties. Have fun with that. Because then it's only 8 girls in a class, estimated. Then a girl has a party, invites 5 girls, and leaves out two. Talk about drama and hurt feelings! I'm going through that now with my one daughter. It's terrible. Good luck and don't sweat the party.
If it's possible, you might want to change the date or time so they don't overlap.
Dinosaur boy's birthday is this week. My daughter's birthday is on the 25th. The party is on the 25th. I have booked Anna and Elsa to entertain the children for the party, so I can't really change the time. I mean, maybe it would be possible if I called the company and they are available later, and then notified everyone on the evite to have it an hour later or something. I guess it's possible. But I don't really think I'm going to do that.
Gotcha. For future reference, if you're ever worried about numbers, you'd be surprised by how many kids don't make it to the party. One always gets sick and can't make it. From my experience, the parties were mixed gender until third grade. That's when boys had boy parties and girls had girl parties. Have fun with that. Because then it's only 8 girls in a class, estimated. Then a girl has a party, invites 5 girls, and leaves out two. Talk about drama and hurt feelings! I'm going through that now with my one daughter. It's terrible. Good luck and don't sweat the party.
Yah, well last year only 2 kids from school showed up to her party, so I hope that more show up this year... I mean, we'll still have cousins and stuff either way, but it would be nice if some classmates come.
Dinosaur boy's birthday is this week. My daughter's birthday is on the 25th. The party is on the 25th. I have booked Anna and Elsa to entertain the children for the party, so I can't really change the time. I mean, maybe it would be possible if I called the company and they are available later, and then notified everyone on the evite to have it an hour later or something. I guess it's possible. But I don't really think I'm going to do that.
I wouldn't change the time. It's common for these types of conflicts to happen. The kids who want to be at your daughter's party will be there.
Yah, well last year only 2 kids from school showed up to her party, so I hope that more show up this year... I mean, we'll still have cousins and stuff either way, but it would be nice if some classmates come.
Hmm...maybe you'd want to consider changing the time if you can. But that's a personal choice. I hear you though.
Of course at that age, we avoided the issue because my children could only invite a small number of kids. When they turned 5, they invited 4 children, when they turned 6, they invited 5 children. These were the kids they played with most often. The rule was you could invite the same number of children as your age.
Yah, well last year only 2 kids from school showed up to her party, so I hope that more show up this year... I mean, we'll still have cousins and stuff either way, but it would be nice if some classmates come.
We used to follow party math and that would work pretty well. LOL. the rule was half of who you invite will RSVP yes and then 75% of those will actually come. We would buy for that amount and it always worked out fine bump it up a little if your kid is super popular, down a little if they are super shy.
In this case since there are 2 parties I would estimate using the number of girls in the class as your base to start from.
With a boy and a girl each having a party, my guess is that the class will be split down gender lines and you'll get all or most of the girls, while the other child gets all or most of the boys.
I think it would be crappy to leave out just a few of the kids, but now it seems like it's not much of an issue. Send an invite to dinosaur boy; he obviously won't be able to come anyway. I think that five and six year olds are at the perfect stage to learn to think of others and to start growing out of their (natural) egocentricism.
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bump it up a little if your kid is super popular, down a little if they are super shy. 
