I am so excited about this tree. This tree is the newest addition to our birthday traditions! After the Christmas sale at Hobby Lobby I bought 8 candy ornaments and a load of brightly colored garland. Then the week before the birthday we get the tree out and decorate it. Every morning when the birthday girl wakes up she gets to place on the tree one candy ornament. Then when she places the last ornament on the tree that's the day of the party. This was so much fun to help build the suspense to Emma's big day and also to help a little girl grasp the concept of time.
March 1st came early this year as we celebrated Emma's birthday on Saturday. Ryan said multiple times "you know this is all for four year olds, right?" Duh. But you should have seen or heard how excited Emma was about all this. Plus, I had a blast in the process and kept the cost pretty low since I have been planning this for months.
I totally redecorated the dining room. We had so much fun preparing for this little party. I gave the chandelier a make-over, bought colored bread for sandwiches, and just had so much fun buying the place settings and making the party favors.
Emma had six little friends join us for her party. We watched Alice in Wonderland and then would pause the movie and take a break to play a game or have an activity that related to the scene we just watched. Every girl won a prize for playing the game but the winner of the game got to wear the Queen of hearts crown until the next round of games began.
I want to just pause here for a moment and give a special mention to my friend Cheri who makes the most delicious and charming cakes. Sure only two of the girls ate their cake and we had an insane amount of left overs....but guess what, it was totally worth it. Cakes make me happy in my heart, literally happy, I think I get butterflies when I see a cute cake. If anyone needs a cake for any reason, let me know and you have to use Cheri, she's the best!
For Halloween Emma was Alice and Lydia was the Cheshire cat. I had thought maybe it would be fun to have a Wonderland birthday party. But when I saw these Barbies on ebay I knew that fate was sealed for the party theme and I just HAD to have these Barbies and then everything fell into place from there. Is it wrong to live vicariously through your children?
We played pin the tail on the Cheshire cat in case that random photo of Lydia isn't making sense to you.
The party favors were necklaces for each of the girls, cheshire magnets, slinkys, and a glass bottle that had a little lemonade packet on the inside that had a tag reading "drink me." I'll be honest, some of the favors looked like Emma made them, but at least the bottles turned out nicely.
Emma had six little friends join us for her party. We watched Alice in Wonderland and then would pause the movie and take a break to play a game or have an activity that related to the scene we just watched. Every girl won a prize for playing the game but the winner of the game got to wear the Queen of hearts crown until the next round of games began.
I want to just pause here for a moment and give a special mention to my friend Cheri who makes the most delicious and charming cakes. Sure only two of the girls ate their cake and we had an insane amount of left overs....but guess what, it was totally worth it. Cakes make me happy in my heart, literally happy, I think I get butterflies when I see a cute cake. If anyone needs a cake for any reason, let me know and you have to use Cheri, she's the best!
For Halloween Emma was Alice and Lydia was the Cheshire cat. I had thought maybe it would be fun to have a Wonderland birthday party. But when I saw these Barbies on ebay I knew that fate was sealed for the party theme and I just HAD to have these Barbies and then everything fell into place from there. Is it wrong to live vicariously through your children?
We played pin the tail on the Cheshire cat in case that random photo of Lydia isn't making sense to you.
The party favors were necklaces for each of the girls, cheshire magnets, slinkys, and a glass bottle that had a little lemonade packet on the inside that had a tag reading "drink me." I'll be honest, some of the favors looked like Emma made them, but at least the bottles turned out nicely.
