Savannah's Rapunzel Party

I realize this is way late and old news but I just wanted to share some of it on the blog.  Kind of a catch up if you will.  So Savannah turned 5 this year.  That is unbelievable.  She is getting so big too fast.  I am still trying to get used to the fact that she is in preschool and next year she will be going to kindergarten.  Crazy.  Anyway, since she is turning an odd number she got to have a party.  She is really into Rapunzel so that is the theme she chose.  In this first picture you can see the sun banner and lanterns that I made to better decorate the place.  She is also into pandas and had a hard time picking a theme, so the other wall has some store-bought pictures of pandas along with one picture from each of her years.  I also made like a 15ish-foot yellow braid that went from the window outside, up the stairs, over our front door and hung down the inside.   

I wanted to make some kind of treat but I didn't really want too much left over either.  I found that a lady made a tower out of donuts.  I loved the idea.  So I got one white glazed donut with colored sprinkles for each girl invited to the party.  Dale made me a stand and I slid the donuts on.  Then, on the top, I put one muffin and a waffle cone dipped in purple candy coating.  The rest is just green frosting that I piped on.  I got some new cake decorating tips for Christmas so I practiced with them to make vines, leaves, and grass.  I think it turned out well and the only things left were the muffin, cone, and one donut.  I also made blue jello for water and an orange slice as a boat.  I also made a sail to complete the boats.  The girls loved them.

We also played pin the frying pan on Flynn Rider.  I put the intial on the pan so we could tell who got it where. 

We also made Pascals out of party blowers and sticky green craft foam.  The girls had fun creating a face and sticking the head on the blowers and then blowing each other with them.

Colette got particularly good at it.  She tried to get Pascal's tongue on the camera as Dale was taking the picture.

Then we played music chairs to the songs from the soundtrack of the movie "Tangled."  When you got out, you got to head to the table to start decorating the lanterns.  Once the girls knew that's what they were doing next, there was no fight for the chairs.  Everyone wanted to go decorate.  We also put glow sticks in the corners and made the room dark so the girls could dance to the "Tangled" theme music with glowing lanterns.

Then Savannah opened her presents. She got lots of fun stuff.  This backpack I made for her.  She uses it for preschool and loves it.

Lastly, we painted on the tower walls.  Since the weather was cool we just taped the sheet on the floor.  The fitted sheet had recently gone bye bye so I thought the top sheet would work well and if I wanted to use it again, I would just have to wash it.  The girls loved the painting and after it was dry we hung it on the wall of the girls' room.

So that was the party.  It was a lot of fun.  The above girl is Emma, one of Savannah's good friends from preschool.  Now if any of my other girls want a Rapunzel-themed party, I will be set to go.  I altered some of these ideas, but I got inspirations from super mom website and also a web site she links to.

The lost Wedding Ring

A couple days ago, I set my wedding ring on the kitchen counter so it wouldn't get dirty while I made dinner. Leila accidentally knocked it off the counter, and I asked her to put it back up there. I didn't think much of it, and turned back to what I was doing. After dinner, I went to put it back on, but it was gone. I asked Leila where she put it, and she insisted that she put it back on the counter. Savannah and Dale started helping me look for it. We looked and looked and looked. But in vain.

During the search, Savannah found a pink sparkly ring that she had previously lost. She said if we couldn't find my ring, I could have hers. Leila insisted that we first make sure that it fit my ring finger, which it did.

Eventually, we gave up the search, and I resigned myself to that fact that we couldn't find it, but hoped it would eventually turn up somewhere. The kids did not fully understand why I was so distraught by the loss of my ring, after all, they lose rings all the time. Dale explained to them that my wedding ring was a very special one. Savannah then said that her ring was also very special to her (she had gotten it on a daddy-daughter date), but she wanted me to have it. So I wore it in place of my wedding ring.

Later, we went upstairs to read bedtime stories. While I read a story to the older girls, Colette played on the floor nearby. She got real excited all of a sudden and came running to me saying, "Mommy, find your ring!" I thought she had some random small toy or something in her hand, but when she opened up her tiny fist, there was my wedding ring. I asked her where she found it and she said, "Found it Leila's bed." I gave her a great big hug, then hugged my other girls as well.

A short time later, as I tucked Savannah in bed, she told me again that her pink shiny ring was extra special to her, but that she wanted me to keep it, despite the fact that I had found mine. She admitted that it was really hard for her to give up her ring, but insisted I keep it. So I've been wearing it along with my wedding ring.

Colette and her babies

Colette loves her babies!  And she takes good care of them too.  She holds them, hugs them when they are sad, puts them on time out when they are bad, and put them to bed when they are tired.  Here she not only tucked in the baby but she tucked in herself and read the baby a story.  She also goes around and tells everyone to be quiet if there are being to loud during babies nap time.