Lukas Birthday was last Monday and Abigail's birthday is this upcoming Sunday so we combined them again this year and celebrated them today. I'll probably do a post later on the photos from their actual birthdays but this post is just about the parties.
First of all, this morning the kids and I went to the preschool Valentine's Day Party, which thankfully I didn't have to host. It was a lot of fun for the kids to just play around and it was a lot of fun for me to talk to my friend Melanie, whom I haven't been able to really talk to for awhile. We've just been busy I guess.
Then in the afternoon I hosted Abigail's first ever friend birthday party. Let me just say, there is a world of difference in hosting a party for five little girls in princess dresses than for 6 little boys anticipating a colossal water balloon fight.
The plan was to first decorate princess crowns with some plastic jewels and glitter star stickers. Then we would play "pin the crown on the princess" but not for winners, just for fun. The next step was to make bracelets out of pony beads and letter beads on pipe cleaners - I pulled out the letters for their names ahead of time so I wouldn't have to dig through the pile during the party and have them wait on me. After bracelets we'd move into the other room to open presents, then cupcakes and ice cream, a quick photo shoot with all the pretty princesses and then play time until the moms got there. Sort of as a last minute I blew up 7 balloons (one for each child - my two boys included) for the kids to just play with until all the girls got there. That was a genius idea. They may have been the hit of the party. So here are my before photos.
And here are the during photos.
Over all, it was a huge success.
Then it was time for the family party. Derek's parents came down from Midway and we celebrated with homemade pizza (apparently I am REALLY good at making this pizza so we'll probably add it to our monthly meal menu), then cake and ice cream and presents. It was so fun. The kids were so happy. We got Abigail a life jacket (for swimming in the summer because it's too hard for me to try and keep 4 kids afloat in the pool all by myself), a bike helmet to go with the bike she got for Christmas, and some nail polish. She also received from her grandparents some baby doll clothes that she had requested and a fun princess book with figurines to go along. We got Lukas a life jacket too, a huge tub of jelly beans and some underwear (potty training, you know) and a little red car "like Joshua's" that he had requested. His grandparent's in Washington sent him $10! Abigail's is in the mail so she'll get to open hers on her real birthday. And his Utah grandparents gave him a stuffed animal lion that looked so real he as afraid of it. He wouldn't pull it out of the bag so someone else had to. And then he only very timidly walked up to it to touch it before he ran away. Slowly he warmed up to it but his reaction was priceless. When he finally gained the courage to hold the lion he kissed it on the nose, and then got scared and dropped it and ran away. That was probably the cutest thing I had seen in a long time. He loves his lion and I have a feeling that tomorrow we will have a hard time getting it out of his hands.
And the photos.
First of all, this morning the kids and I went to the preschool Valentine's Day Party, which thankfully I didn't have to host. It was a lot of fun for the kids to just play around and it was a lot of fun for me to talk to my friend Melanie, whom I haven't been able to really talk to for awhile. We've just been busy I guess.
Then in the afternoon I hosted Abigail's first ever friend birthday party. Let me just say, there is a world of difference in hosting a party for five little girls in princess dresses than for 6 little boys anticipating a colossal water balloon fight.
The plan was to first decorate princess crowns with some plastic jewels and glitter star stickers. Then we would play "pin the crown on the princess" but not for winners, just for fun. The next step was to make bracelets out of pony beads and letter beads on pipe cleaners - I pulled out the letters for their names ahead of time so I wouldn't have to dig through the pile during the party and have them wait on me. After bracelets we'd move into the other room to open presents, then cupcakes and ice cream, a quick photo shoot with all the pretty princesses and then play time until the moms got there. Sort of as a last minute I blew up 7 balloons (one for each child - my two boys included) for the kids to just play with until all the girls got there. That was a genius idea. They may have been the hit of the party. So here are my before photos.
And here are the during photos.
Over all, it was a huge success.
Then it was time for the family party. Derek's parents came down from Midway and we celebrated with homemade pizza (apparently I am REALLY good at making this pizza so we'll probably add it to our monthly meal menu), then cake and ice cream and presents. It was so fun. The kids were so happy. We got Abigail a life jacket (for swimming in the summer because it's too hard for me to try and keep 4 kids afloat in the pool all by myself), a bike helmet to go with the bike she got for Christmas, and some nail polish. She also received from her grandparents some baby doll clothes that she had requested and a fun princess book with figurines to go along. We got Lukas a life jacket too, a huge tub of jelly beans and some underwear (potty training, you know) and a little red car "like Joshua's" that he had requested. His grandparent's in Washington sent him $10! Abigail's is in the mail so she'll get to open hers on her real birthday. And his Utah grandparents gave him a stuffed animal lion that looked so real he as afraid of it. He wouldn't pull it out of the bag so someone else had to. And then he only very timidly walked up to it to touch it before he ran away. Slowly he warmed up to it but his reaction was priceless. When he finally gained the courage to hold the lion he kissed it on the nose, and then got scared and dropped it and ran away. That was probably the cutest thing I had seen in a long time. He loves his lion and I have a feeling that tomorrow we will have a hard time getting it out of his hands.
And the photos.
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| I can't believe he isn't totally excited about the underwear!! |
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| He sees the lion for the first time, but isn't sure he wants to take it out of the bag. |
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| Fortunately somebody else did. Here is his reaction. |
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| But he's still not ready to go near it. Derek's brave enough. That's my man. |
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| What are older brothers good for if not to give you a good scare. |
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| I'm glad he warmed up to it. Although the lion was not allowed to sleep on his bed tonight. Lukas said he had to keep him on the floor. |
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| He's rich!! |
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