See, it's understandable that the schools want you to hand out invitations (and also Valentines) to everyone if you hand them out at school; no one wants to hurt feelings. However, they won't give parents a list of phone numbers so you can call the kids you want to come either. If you have an older child, they can get the list themselves but a younger child can't handle that.
We have discovered that my son's Yu-Gi-Oh cards that the evil kid kept trying to get ahold of are missing.
We are about to deal with this. Next year, we'll just invite his Cub Scout den and hand out invitations at the meeting. If Satan Jr. is in the den, we'll get a list of phone numbers at the meeting.
His mom thinks we're going to let our boy come visit hers. Uh, no.