Sunday, February 12, 2012

The chaos is over....

Anyone that has small kids knows how chaotic a birthday party is.  Luckily, I was able to convince the kids to combine the chaos into a single birthday party (their birthdays are only 1 week apart).  My oldest son is turning 6 and my youngest 4.  The party was at the local gymnastics center, so the kids could run and jump and play.  It keeps the kids entertained and you don't have to clean up afterwards.

And it was like deja vu -  I ended up having to re-do my cake.  A few years ago I took a cake decorating class at Michael's so that I could make the kids their birthday cakes.  This year it was all about Star Wars, so a Death Star cake was requested.  I don't know what happened to the cake - it was too crumbly and was not structurally sound.  I tried to "glue" it together with frosting, but it just wasn't working.  So I had to abandon it and start another cake...
Not working....

The second cake still wasn't perfect, but I was able to get it to stay together.  The kids still loved it, so I guess that I shouldn't be so critical.
Death Star - rebuilt

My older son had requested no cake and just a bowl of frosting.  I had a few ideas to try to make an R2D2.  This is what I ended up making out of frosting:
These are not the droids you are looking for...

I think in the end we had about 25 kids ranging from 2-10 yrs old and about the same number of adults.  Zach wanted to invite his whole kindergarden class (although they didn't all come) and Jake only requested inviting 2 of his friends.  I wondered how Zach would act since he had a few of his girl friends there. I figured that he would just end up ignoring them all, but he actually played with them a bit. 

Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures at the party - I know, I feel like a bad mom, but I ended up trying to be a host and talk to all the parents at the party.  I have a few I took on my phone, but that is about it.  I did take a lot of pictures of them opening presents at home afterwards. 

Tomorrow is his "real" birthday, so the celebration will continue.  Taking mini muffins to school and then a little family dinner.  Followed the next week by the same for Jake.  

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