For Claudia's 5th birthday, we threw her a big party with 19 of her closest friends. Last summer at my parents' house she saw a picture in a magazine of a Candyland cake. She asked if I could make that for her, so the theme was set. I had 9 months to think about it and spent about 4 weeks seriously planning and shopping for it. Gina flew in a few days before the party and stayed a week. She helped a lot with the planning and decorating. We put together a candy-related playlist that was pretty fun - Good ship lollipop, I want candy, Brown Sugar, Sugar, Sugar, the Candyman, Sugartown were some of the songs.
Here's the cake. I had Safeway bake it, ice it and airbrush the green. Gina, Claudia and I decorated it. It was pretty fun, probably took us an hour and half from start to finish, which also included me working on my letter piping skills. Though it appears I could practice more on that.
We got lots and lots of compliments on the cake. And it was pretty tasty too! Chocolate with banana filling and white with strawberry filling.We stayed up late the night before making m&m bean bags for a bean bag toss game that we never ended up playing. But they made for good paper weights for the path and the kids played with them during the party, and the kids got to take one home with them. I found some miniature gumball machines, swirly suckers and thought I would throw in a toothbrush so the parents weren't completely mad at me for all the sugar!
Here's a shot of the path:
We played a game on the path. I was pretty amazed how patient the kids were. I didn't really think it thru, so the kids pretty much moved as a clump. But they seemed to have fun.
Juliet was being supervised by Peter's mom & dad. She sat here and colored for more than an hour. I think she liked sitting with the "big kid's" at the table. She's so serious!
And here's the whole fam damily, exhausted after a fun day. Now I need to start planning for Juliet's big 5th, in 4 more years!
