Planning a party for a "doctor"

For Halloween, Katelyn has decided she wants to be a doctor. After looking at numerous costumes of princesses and fairies, she surprised Brandon and I by insisting to be a doctor. We even let it go for a couple days and asked her again, thinking she probably changed her mind and wanted to be one of the Disney princesses or something more well... Katy.

Later she came up to me and said "Mommy, for my Halloween birthday, I want a doctor party for my Halloween birthday." I was surprised by the idea, but the wheels in my head quickly started turning and I thought of how much fun this could be. The more I thought about it the more it started to relate to a lot of the Halloween theme, but would allow her to have something a little bit different. I started looking (and buying things) right away. Here is what I have planned so far, and some of the plans I am thinking about.

The first purchase I made was these cute little doctor kits I found in the dollar aisle at Target. I got little treat boxes for the kids that look like little purse/ brief cases almost and make a large red cross on them. They are different colors though. I was hoping to get white or black but they were not available. Then Katy picked out some candy to place in the goodie bags. There is a "Bag O' Blood," which looks like a donation bag, but is like the squeeze tubes I would slurp down when I was little. Plus, the are watermelon flavored. Sticky but yummy. Next, Katy picked out gummy organs. They are in the shapes of a brain, intestines, lungs, and a heart. I am all about novelty candy, but these even grossed me out a bit looking at them. Of course Katelyn tried one of each to make sure she approved and said, "All my innards are yummy mommy!" The last thing I bought are red pens at look like syringes. I think these were more for me then her. She later told me she would have been just as happy with markers. I don't think she understood, I was trying to keep everything with the theme! :)


That is what I have planned for now, but here are some of my other ideas. Let me know what you think.

Goodie bags : add fun band-aids, and maybe anything else I can find fun and small :)

Activities: create a patient sticker pages, create fun dr. name badges, play Operation, and who know what else I will think of...

Food: themed cake (maybe a ambulance, first aid cross, or large band-aid), cake balls or candy calls to look like eyeballs, spare ribs? I am trying to think of things that would either look like a body party or are kind of a body part as gross as that sounds. This is the area I will have to continue to think about and play with.

Invitations: Get a picture of Katy in her costume and say
Katelyn is having a heart stomping Birthday party, so come on over STAT!
Hospital: Brandon & Jodie's House
Visiting date: Either October 23rd or 30th (I haven't decided yet)
Visiting hours: 1100 to 1500 (11:00 am to 3:00 pm)


These are my ideas. Let me know if you have any others or have a preference with the date or time. :) THANKS! I am getting really excited about this, if you can't already tell.

The Katy statement of the day: "My daddy go to work to make the MONNNNEY!"