I had probably started planning Mara's birthday party a month in advance to make sure it would be enjoyable. I spent weeks figuring out if I wanted a theme and selected fairies. Decent theme I thought, wasn't overly pink and I could dress her up in tutus and wings. So my first project was finding a cute costume. Luckily I found a cute Halloween costume as a Gerber Daisy. I just added wings and a bow in her hair and walaa! Cuteness!
Next was the food. My baby shower was sandwiches and I'm really tired of sandwiches, so I decided to plan out the food. Took me about 4 drafts in Word to finally have it finalized...boy did I overplan on the food. We have probably enough to last us more than a week if we decide to freeze some. You can see the spread behind me and also here:
Then I got a few ideas from various parenting websites for Rice Krispie treats shaped like balloons...
So the list of food was quesadillas, stuffed jalapenos, Russian and French bread cubes for fondu, cocktail dogs, beer cheese fondu pot, tortilla chips, mini corndogs, rice krispie treas, zucchini muffins, sausage cheese muffins, vegetable platter(carrots, celery, locally grown variety cherry tomatoes) for fondue, fruit platter(strawberries, blueberries, Jazz apple slices and grapes), and birthday cake. The birthday cake was special, I sampled probably 4 different birthday cakes from various Asian bakeries to make sure I found the right one.
Mara seemed pretty happy with my choice on cake, and I'm glad that is over with. Now I have too much cake in the fridge. (Chinese style birthday cake is vanilla sponge cake with fruit in the middle and on top , iced with whip cream.)
She seemed to enjoy herself and the small kids that were also there seemed to have fun. So overall, I'm glad it went out stress free and full of fun. The ball pit I had bought for her birthday was a huge hit with all the small kids, everyone kept asking me where I got it so they could get it for their kid.
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