A Proper Tea Party

We had a tea party birthday for Anna today.  Her real birthday is August 8th, but I thought it might be better to try and have the friend party before the baby comes.  We had the party on a Friday when Scott was at work (so he got off easy on this one) but my mom was in town to help me, so that was nice.

First we decorated princess crowns.  Here are some of the girls working on it.  We also beaded some teapot necklaces.  I was impressed that the little girls could focus on the crafts for so long.  It was definitely a different dynamic than a similarly aged group of boys.

And speaking of boys, Matthew found an alternate use for the connecting spring: mustache!  Matthew was the only boy at this shindig, except Grant, who slept through most of it.

We played pin the cherry on the cupcake, which they seemed to like.  We also played a sort of game of musical cupcakes where the girls jumped from cupcake to cupcake every time we said "Fancy" while reading Fancy Nancy.  We made it a non-elimination event since most of our crowd was pretty young.

Then we had our tea.  It was made up of fruit, cheese and crackers, ritz sandwiches with ham and swiss inside, PB&J and turkey and cheddar sandwiches cut into shapes, cream cheese and jam spirals on tortillas and punch for our "tea."  The kids seemed to like the food...although we had lots of leftovers.  

Here we are at the table getting ready to eat!

Anna was very excited to pretend pour the tea for everyone.  My mom and I did the real pouring which there was a lot of since the tea cups were so small.  It was fun though.

Everyone eating some lunch.

And Anna getting ready to blow out some candles.  We had tiny cupcakes in place of a cake.

Blowing out the candles.

And along with the cupcakes we decorated some cookies.  The cookie decorating was big hit with everyone!  The kids were all so sweet and quiet during most of the party, but after cupcakes and cookies things got a bit more rowdy!  Everyone had fun hitting balloons around for the last few minutes.  All in all I think it was a successful party!

After the party was all over we let Grant have a cupcake.  He really went to town on it!

Happy (early) Birthday to our little Anna!