I am not a big party-throwing mom, just seems like you have the family party, the other-side-of the family party, the classroom party and the friend party, Ugh!! It gets out of control if you're not careful! But every-other year or so I let them have a kid party. This year Erin took a couple friends and went to see "Princess Frog." It was really, really good! I would highly recommend it to anyone! We ran into some other kids that were there from her school. Everyone had a good ol' time!