Birthday Season

One party down, two to go before the fall is through. I'm still recovering from my weekend of stomach flu, birthday bash, 40th anniversary weekend for my parents, and a wedding.

Elbow chose Hello Kitty as her theme so I was able to purchase quite a bit of the stuff from Birthday Express. I'm pretty sure she chose this theme because she saw the lip gloss cell phone favors in the catalog. (Next in line is her older sister, turning seven, who wants an Ancient Egypt event - not quite so simple.)

We made the cake from a regular rectangular cake pan and cut out the shape of Hello Kitty's face and ears. I used black frosting from a canister for her whiskers and eyes. The bow is cut out from an Air Nerds candy. Her yellow nose is a dab of gel food coloring.

Elbow chose two games to go with her theme: Kitty, Kitty Cat -- a made up variation of Duck, Duck, Goose and Kitty in the Corner. She learned the latter from seeing a stage production of Christmas on Plum Creek. Laura, Mary, and Ma Ingalls played it while trying to pass the time when Pa was stuck in the blizzard. All the children picked a tree on our property (we were outside and the corner concept didn't quite fit). One child would stand in the middle of the yard and yell, "Kitty wants a corner. Kitty wants a corner..." several times. When she was ready, she would then yell "Go!" and all the children would have to scramble to find a different tree. The one who didn't get to a tree in time was the next one to be it. This simple game actually occupied the whole gang for a good fifteen minutes!

Despite my not being able to participate fully, we had a great day. Ancient Egypt, here we come...