It was her year for a friend birthday party and she wanted to have a “Game Show” themed party.
We played "Wheel of Fortune" and "Friend Feud" with some puzzles/questions I made up.
I thought it would be fun & clever to have one of the “Friend Feud” questions be:
"Name something great about Katelyn.”
I thought it would be a good way to "CELEBRATE" the birthday girl.
FOR THIS QUESTION, I had all 12 answers worth 100 points each (instead of how I did it on the other questions and how they do it in the real game where ALL the answers only total 100). This way, the girls could REALLY earn a lot of points for this *BRILLIANT* question.
The 12 "Katelyn" answers on the board [that were covered] were: Friendly, Happy, Athletic, Crafty, Honest, Brave, Great singer, Caring, Helpful, Gives compliments, FUN, & Smart).
Well, this *special* idea of mine?.....it kind of bombed...
because the first person guessed, “funny.” STRIKE ONE.
Katelyn: "WHAT?!? I'm not funny? I always make everyone laugh." (As everyone, literally, laughed!)
The next person guessed, “sweet.” STRIKE TWO.
Katelyn: “WHAT?!?”
Oh no.....she's [thinking she's] NOT funny, and she's NOT sweet!
The next person said, “Awesome.” STRIKE THREE.
Katelyn: (practically speechless, with mouth gaping open)
So, the other team gets a chance to "steal." And they say, “pretty.”
I was dying because I knew THAT answer wasn't on the board, either, but I didn’t want to give ANOTHER strike.....because what Katelyn wasn't understanding was, that even though all the previous answers given about her were TRUE, and it's what her friends thought of her....it just wasn’t one of the TOP TWELVE ANSWERS ON THE BOARD.
"Pretty" got a STRIKE, also.
When Katelyn saw it wasn’t on the board, she hid her face in the couch and started to cry.
Come on - everyone break out into song now, "It's MY party, I can cry if I want to, cry if I want to.....YOU would cry, too, if it happened to you!"
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But, in an attempt to make things better, I let the "stealing" team call out another one of their answers they had brainstormed up together - and it was [finally] ON THE BOARD! (Makes friends easily)
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