Our bright bundle of joy is 3 years old. It’s hard to believe she is growing so fast. We celebrated her birthday at home. The original plan was to have a small party and dinner at my house. But due to the winter storm that brought icy weather, we just had a small dinner together with my cousin’s family. DD had fun with Audrey and Alexis.
Our little sweetheart. 🙂 ‘Love you so much.
Hello there! It’s December once again. That means Christmas shopping and holiday vacationing. I love both and I look forward to doing them. But first, it’s my darling daughter’s birthday celebration next weekend and she is turning 3. Oh dear! She’s growing fast, really. Now she knows what she wants for her birthday. She want’s a unicorn cake with a unicorn candle. I can order a cake with a unicorn design on it but I don’t think I can find a unicorn candle. Hahaha!
When I was surfing for birthday cakes online a couple of weeks ago, I saw a cake with a unicorn design. I contacted the person how advertised her cakes and asked her about the ordering process. She sent me a sheet with cake flavors, filling flavors, frosting, and …..Since this is my very first time ordering a birthday cake from a person, I just didn’t want it to be so complicated. I guess 10 inches diameter and two-layered cake for $40 is expensive yet I still went ahead and order it. My dear husband and I talked about having a small dinner at home celebrating our DD’s 3rd birthday with her grandparents and a few friends of ours. I hope Patty Cakes’ cake is good. There’s a forecast of a winter storm coming on DD’s birthday weekend and it’ll be very, very cold and icy. Well, if no one will show up, we will still have our special dinner anyway.
Here’s the cake!
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I think darling daughter had a great time at the Halloween Party at a friend’s house last Friday. This is her very first Halloween Party she attended with me. My cousin and her kids came with us, too. It’s a costume party so we were in our cutest Halloween costumes. First costume DD picked to wear for the occasion was the outfit of Jewel in Lalaloopsy. But she saw a bumble bee costume at Walmart so I bought that. She wore that costume at the Boo! In Ballard Halloween Event in downtown Wylie. I thought I would incorporate our costumes together. But I couldn’t find a lady bug costume that fits me. So I decided to find one that will give us a theme. I found this Dainty Pirate costume for kids size 10-12. It fits me very well. Then I found the Pirate Princess costume for DD at a garage sale size 3T-4T. Perfect!
Dainty Pirate and the Pirate Princess
The party was a potluck style so everyone brought a dish to share. I broiled whole chicken. Others brought some brisket, garden salad, fried fish, veggies stir-fry, and variation of dessert. Since there will be kids at the party, I volunteered to be assigned with the Halloween games for kids. The Halloween games I got online include: Guess What’s In The Bag, The Mummy Game, Guess How Many, and Freeze Dance. The kids had a great time.
Yummy food at the party.
The Mummy Game
Guess What’s In the Bag
Oh we had a so much fun! The children got really excited when my friend started the disco. Everyone danced.
Disco time!!!
We left the party two hours before darling daughter’s bedtime so we still had lots of time doing our bedtime routine without rushing.
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Darling daughter’s Halloween party and arts & crafts last Saturday was a success. She was very excited about this activity that she couldn’t stop talking about it the night before. She remembered the previous Pre-K themed party at the recreation center and it’s amazing how much information retains in her memory. What she liked most at that party was dancing the Hula Dance and playing games (of course).
Last Saturday’s Pre-K themed party was called “Bats and Broomsticks” in celebration for the upcoming Halloween. The kids enthusiastically created Halloween crafts, cupcake decorating, and they also painted pumpkins. When cupcake decorating was finished, it was followed by story time which was good because the kids got to eat their decorated cupcakes while they listened to the stories about “The Big Pumpkin” and “It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”.
DD has to get a taste of the cupcake frosting while coloring.
A game of finding a star.
Guess What’s In The Bag Game – see the curiosity and wonder on their faces?
Just about to start painting a pumpkin.
Look at her finished product. Really looks Halloween-ney. 🙂
“Here’s my spider cupcake, mommy. Yum!”
After each activity at the party, the coordinators let them play a game to get a little exercise. What’s the most exciting was the kids got to wear their favorite costumes for Halloween. There’s a space provided in the party room that was decorated for Fall and Halloween where participants can have their portraits taken. We didn’t get to have our pictures taken there because DD was having fun at the party and I didn’t want to disturb her.
I am glad that there’s the recreation center in town offered activities like this to young children Pre-K (ages 2-5). Well, actually it is a part of the recreation center’s program for the public. To me, the $9 registration fee per child is not bad at all.
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