Anna could hardly stand it waiting for her friends to arrive! And when she gets excited, she gets silly.
Once everyone arrived we (my party assistant Caylin and I) gave the girls glitter toes while they watched a bit of Tangled. Anna and I love doing glitter toes from time to time. It's just 3 simple steps. 1) paint your toes, 2) while the polish is still wet sprinkle a fine glitter all over (Martha Stewart glitter is the best) and shake/blow/brush off the excess, 3) finish with a clear top coat.
Then is was time for dinner breakfast! We served cinnamon rolls, sausage, powdered donuts, berries with whipped cream, and chocolate milk. I think everyone was stuffed!
After food it was time for games. We played Wake Sleeping Beauty, Hot Potato (Pillow), and went on a Diamond Hunt using their little flashlights to find hidden jewels. As you can see, Anna really got into the games.
The party was structured just enough to keep everyone entertained, but not so much that the girls couldn't come up with a little fun all their own. They played ring-a-round the rosie and started a happy birthday / cha-cha-cha congo line that wound around the house.
There were presents, which Anna loved. In fact, while I was preparing the invitations she came to me in a panic and said, "Mom, we need to make sure we tell them to bring presents!"
We sang happy birthday and tried to eat cupcakes, but everyone was still too full from breakfast. Instead, we brought out the karaoke machine and the girls sang to Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, and songs from Tangled.
I think they enjoyed it, but it is a little tricky to share 2 microphones among 5 girls. Especially when one of those girls is on a birthday high and thinks she deserves to have her own microphone the whole time and has a small meltdown when the CD comes to one of her favorite songs and she just can't handle it anymore. (That would be Anna). But she made it pretty far into the evening, 6:50pm, before deciding to lose it. We had a little pep talk in the bathroom because she needed to get herself together before parents started arriving in just minutes. It worked, and the girls layed around the couch with their pillows, watching a little more of Tangled while they waited to go.
Everyone was a little tired at the end. I think it was perfect though: we got prettied up, we ate, we played, and then we wound down and sent everyone home in their pajamas, ready for bed and a good night's sleep.
