Miss M's 5th Birthday Party!

Yesterday was Miss M's birthday party. We had planned on having a jumpy house, putting up our disc swing in the tree out front (that used to be haning in the tree but because of some grouchy neighbor had to be taken down...we are going to keep it up as long as we don't get anymore letters and even then it's up for discussion. Considering there are about 5 other swings hanging up around the neighborhood.), 'pin' the crown on Maddie (a picture of her with pink crowns that we cut out), and a tiara pinata. We had invited 16 friends, but because of a conflict with another party from the class we ended up with about 12 friends ( I'd say that's a good turn out for a 5 year old birthday party). There was a little boy from her class that was having his party at the same time, so most of the boys went there and the girls came to M's party. We had a lot of fun and the bounce house was a HIT!

I have been making cakes lately for friends and friends of friends. I am hoping to make a little side business out of it. I made Miss M's cake for her party and it was a pink castle cake with pink sparkley turrets. It was chocolate cake on the bottom layer, vanilla cake in the middle layer, and marble cake for the top two layers. It was frosted with pink cream cheese frosting and was topped off with pink sugar turrets, pink windows, and a drawbridge. It was a big hit and tasted GREAT! We had pink lemonade, Cheeto's puffs, pretzals, and Freeto's for snack food.

For the party favors I went to the Target dollar section. I LOVE the Target dollar section! I got green pails for the boys and pink and white flower baskets with green ribbon handles for the girls. Then I found Sponge Bob and Dora Domino's and card games, braceletts (for the girls), silly bands (for the boys), flower head bands (for the girls), car cups (for the boys), smarties (Miss M's favorite candy), and playdough for each child. We also used them for the pinata. Once it was broken open, they collected the candy in their bucket. It was so cute, the girls were all wearing their flower headbands as they were wacking away at the tiara pinata. Very lady-like.

I had to remember this one little fact. On Friday (the day before the party) Miss M announced to me that she was going to be wearing a beautiful dress. But then she proceeded to let me know that no one else would be allowed to wear a dress. To which I was completely at a loss for words. Princess in the making...what can I say? I realize that this is probably somehthing that I should have not let her say, but since she didn't really mean it and there were other little girls there with dresses on and she didn't say a word about it, I figured she was all talk.
Also, I have to add that her beautiful dress was a camo dress with purple sparkle bands and butterfly with pink sparkley leggins. When in the world did my little girl consider a beautiful dress to be camo???? I must say though that she did look beautiful and not redneckish at all.

Hope you have as happy of a day as she had!