Turning Five

Anna turned five years old this week and boy was she excited about it.  She has been instructing me on how to properly run her birthday for quite some time.  She decided she wanted to have a Rapunzel themed birthday and wanted to go to Chuck E. Cheese, since we wouldn't be having a friend party (we don't know many friends yet).  I also had a doctor appointment and first grade orientation for Matthew that day, so it was busy!  Scott took the day off work, so that was nice.  Here's Anna with her Rapunzel tower birthday cake.  We had some structural difficulties with the tower.  The engineer in me really wanted to use full sized glazed donuts but Anna wanted smaller powdered ones.  I think the tower would have been more successful with the bigger donuts, but oh well.  We made it work.

We went to Chuck E. Cheese and then played a few games at home.  We dressed up with Rapunzel hair, made foam tiaras and wands and foam Pascal party blowers.

 We also had a pinata

 I got a frying pan to hit it with, but Grant thought it was too heavy.
John thought hitting the pinata was HILARIOUS!!  He laughed and laughed.

 Matthew collected his pinata candy in the frying pan.

 We lit Anna's cake and it really lit up

We did a little treasure hunt for the lost princess's crown in the satchel (like the movie) and each clue visited something or someone from the movie.  This was supposed to be the festival of lights at the end where they found their treasure (the satchel, goodie bags and Anna's presents).

Anna was very excited and told me it was the best birthday ever!  She thought I had forgot to buy her presents 'cause I had been so sneaky about them.  So she was even more excited that she got some presents.  I felt bad for being too sneaky.  Anyway, it was a fun day and Anna is now five!  So grown up and ready for kindergarten.