Whew.
I'm tired. :-) I was up late prepping for today's play date.
10pm ish. Starting the mini cupcakes. One down, 3,271 to go. (Give or take.)
11pm ish start cutting brownies. Decide they need to cool longer. Go write a blog post... 12:30pm finish cutting brownies.
But now play date has been survived enjoyed AND the house is clean again. (The dishwasher hums as I type.)
We invited the whole class and out of 14 kids we had 10, plus moms, plus Toby, plus three other siblings.
It was a party!
I made lunch and planned for two craft moments. Rain threatened but held off long enough that the kids played and ate oustide for the first hour or so.
The menu: strawberries, cherry tomatoes and red pepper slices (wanted to be heavy on the red foods), cucumber sandwiches, heart shaped pb&js, heart shaped brownies, mini strawberry cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, and red and white candy. I wish I'd taken a picture of the entire spread but... I didn't.
See? The middle plate is candy in mini cupcake holders:
(red and white jellybeans and gummi bears)
Happy eaters:
Then they played in the back yard:
And then we made bird feeder hearts. I had cut out hearts from cardboard and the kids coated the hearts with peanut butter and then dipped them in bird seed. Then we looped a ribbon through and hung them in our tree.
See. How cute is my tree now?
Then it rained and everyone came inside.
No worries. The next plan was to make Valentine's for their teachers. I set out paper and markers and stickers and and and... on the dining room table and had white paper covering the coffee table so kids could set up there too.
But so much for the coffee table set up. Everyone crowded together.
It was tight cozy.
Toby colored awhile in his high chair and then I set him on my bed with his milk and turned on a show. He was tired and starting to max out and I just wanted to give him chill time. It totally worked. After that alone/down time he's been great all afternoon.
Blue was happy to have his friends over. (One girl very excitedly said, "Blue lives in a BLUE house!")
Today was the kids party. Tomorrow night we're having my (very belated) Balderdash Birthday night. (It's a tradition to have people over to play Beyond Balderdash and eat ice cream cake for my bday. AFTER the kids are in bed of course.)
Just a buncha partiers around here.
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