My son is 5 tomorrow. Previously we've only had family/family friend drop by for cake type parties for his birthdays but this year, because he started school in september, we are having a little tea party on saturday. We are doing it at home and keeping the numbers down as we don't want to get into 'invite the whole class' type parties and he put together a list of people to invite. Two of the boys on the list were friends that he talks about all the time and they rsvp'd immediatly but he also listed two girls that he'd pretty much never mentioned before and they haven't responded. Should I ask their mothers if they are coming or just leave it?
Also, he's now saying that he wants another boy to come and it sounds like he's mentioned it to him. Is it going to look strange if I approach his mother and invite him tomorrow even though it's only two days notice?
He wants a space theme so we were going to skip party games and just turn a beach tent into moon pod with rolls of bacofoil and have free play - am I kidding myself that this will be enough to keep a bunch of 4-5 year olds happy for two hours?
Sorry for so many questions but he's my oldest and this is all new ground for me (I am also finding it pretty difficult to get into conversation with the other school gate mums hence my reticence at following up invites)