Sadie INSISTED on a "Pin the tail on Ariel" at her party. Since a poster size Ariel is not to be found, I was not sure what to do. But at 11:00 the night before, Dave and I figure out a solution. We printed a bunch of coloring pages (which I made Davis and Claire color the next morning right before the party) and taped the pictures all over the door. Ariel was in the center and we pinned the tail on her picture. Good enough for me!
Musical Chairs
This was the highlight of the party. For Davis' Webelos badge, he needed to make puppets and write a puppet show. HE came up with the idea to do it for Sadie's party. So Sadie gets all excited for a puppet show. Two days before, Davis loses his nerve and says, "I'll make puppets, but I'm not doing the puppet show." Try telling that to Miss Stubborn herself, Sadie Mae. Or try telling that to your Mother who sees that you only have 4 months left to earn your Arrow of Light and LOTS of things left to do and is starting to panic. So I convinced Davis to write the script and make the puppets (the morning of the party, I might add.). I thought there was going to be arguments or complaining. But during my piano lessons, he worked away and made paper bag puppets. (Can you see the Ariel one he is holding? :) Then he performed a (remarkably well written) play it to the great delight of all the little girls. What is is about a puppet show that is so fascinating? Even after Sadie opened all her presents, all the girls just wanted to play with the puppets.
Instead of cake and ice-cream we did cupcakes and Blue Jello cups with Swedish fish inside to look like fish in the sea. BY THE WAY, if you make jello cups the night before and put the Swedish fish in to set in the middle, by the time your party rolls around the next day, the candy fish have started to dissolve, so they taste like gluey, slimy gross things with a little frozen center and 5 year old girls will be grossed out and not eat the rest of the Jello because of the yucky Swedish Fish. Or so I've heard.
Fish Pond on the trampoline for their goody bags.
Everyone loves a good party favor!
The day after Sadie's party, we went to Utah for a Wedding reception, with fruit pizza and wedding cake. The next day, Sunday, was Sadie's birthday, which we spent going to two baby blessings and the accompanying goodies. That afternoon, we celebrated Sadie's birthday at Dave's parents' house since we were already down and there were cousins to share in the fun.
Opening presents
Sadie and her Birthday Cake
The very next day, it is now Charlotte's 1st Birthday. Which is a cause of great celebration. But I am beat after the weekend and I had a less than stellar attitude about making ANOTHER cake mix and colored frosting. I realize I don't even have another white cake mix in the house...or powdered sugar for any frosting. And in the meantime, I'm trying to decide how to change up Sadie's leftover party decorations so they're not EXACTLY the same, while I think, "The baby won't notice anyway, right?" But after a semi-crazy day, we pull it together and have a fun Family Night with Charlotte for her big day.
Caterpillar Cake....with Snowcones since our baby can't have any dairy. I thought it would be cruel to eat ice-cream in front of her, so we all shared our Snowies with her. HEAVEN!
We gave Charlotte a push/riding toy which she LOVES to push and walk with..until she hits a wall/table/couch and it stops her progress. Then she howls until someone turns her around and off she goes again. We also gave her a baby swing for the swingset. I need to take a video of her in it; she laughs infectiously. She LOVES, LOVES, LOVES the swing.
What a sweet little Mama's girl this baby is. She has been different from all my other kids in SO many ways. She wakes up at 6:15 every morning, she is allergic to dairy and eggs for the time being, she is a little shrimp; barely in the 10th percentile for her weight and 25th percentile for height. She still isn't walking, but she's close. She just cut 8 teeth in 3 weeks; and her molars all came in before her front teeth! But oh, what a ray of sunshine she is in our home. The kids love her, and I love to watch them with her. And she definitely loves me more than the others ever did at this age. She has not crossed over to "Daddy's girls" just yet and while this means that she howls whenever I enter/leave a room without picking her up, I love that she still loves me.
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