Party

We celebrated Naomi turning 4, today.   She had preschool this morning and then I picked her and her 4 friends up and brought them home for a party.  Rose and Joshua were a little disgusted with me that they were unable to attend the party but I figured this was the most low-key and easiest way of doing it.  I told them we would have a family celebration after school and that seemed to satisfy them, although Rose was a little put out that we were celebrating today when her birthday is really tomorrow!

I came home straight after teaching to get everything ready.  Let me tell you how not to host a party for a 4 year old.  Firstly, don't forget to get the icing sugar when you go shopping the day before.  Thankfully, I could send our helper out to get some because the other thing you should not do is still be cutting the shape of the cake the morning of the party!  Also, do not leave all the preparation to the morning of.  Before picking Naomi and crew up I had to go to the mall and buy candy floss to finish decorating the cake (well that sounds like I was ready to finish which I was not), and some extra bits of food for lunch.  I collected a very excited gaggle of girls - plus one poor boy who I was dropping home!  Naomi had already opened presents.  They all squeezed into our back seat and when we got home they played dress up while I made some lunch for them.  They loved their new head-dresses.

At the end of lunch my friend, Sarah, came to help out - good job, because I was still icing the cake!  She did some games with them and then we had the cake - the minimalist version: minus eyes, wing outlines and bow!  Naomi wanted the same cake as last year.  She reminded me Uncle Sam had done the bow - I had forgotten they were still here then!  But it had the candy floss so everything was good.

Then they did some more games, played a bit and it was time to go back up to school.

Wendy bought Dairy Queen ice creams for dessert and Naomi opened her family presents.