Pucca's Party

It was a fun party...the girls were adorable and very well behaved. Perfect little ladies! Pucca had a wonderful time- and that's all that really matters!





Here's a run down of the TEA PARTY



DECORATIONS:


We filled the house with balloons...something about free floating balloons that just shouts party time!






The buffet was set up with the cake, drinks and party favors. The silver pieces came courtesy of gma Kelly...she let us borrow them for this special occasion.








The table was set with light purple flowers, an antique tea pot, my mint green Tiara, a white lacey tablecloth that I found at a local thrift store yesterday, a runner made from a remnant piece of fabric I had laying around and pink satin napkin rings made with a little hot glue, ribbon and a left over cardboard tube from a paper towel roll.




Party favors: Made from salvaged tins cans (straight from the recycling...washed of course!) I covered them with coordinating scrapbook paper. The girls could use them as a pencil holder or for markers. We filled them with a pair of pink dainty gloves, princess stickers, a candy bracelet and sugar cookie on a stick.

Funny story about those cookies...they were supposed to be crowns. But when I baked them- they puffed way out and didn't really resemble crowns anymore. So I improvised and made them into pink tulips! They were fun...I'll definitely make them again!


GAMES




Our first party game was tossing pennies into a tea cup. Each girl was given 5 pennies and who ever made the most won!










Another game we did was sugar cube stacking. Each girl was given 10 sugar cubes and we tried to see who could build the tallest tower in 10 seconds. We played this a few times.





John had to leave (security alarm went off at work- he had to go check it out.) Which left me alone...so I didn't get any pictures of the next activity. We made tissue paper flowers!

Cake Time:


Sparkler candles and sugar rimmed tea cups were Pucca's favorites...not sure if you can see in the photo, but we laced the tops of the tea cups with hot pink sugar- as if they needed more! But it looked cute!








Happy Birthday, Pucca! We love you!

Tea for 10

Challenge: A marvelously cute 'tea party' birthday bash for Pucca and her 9 friends for under $100 (our typical bday party allowance).

Even though we budget $100- we rarely use it all. But we have it in there just incase the kids decide to have their bday somewhere else...which requires rental fees and such. Its getting kind of nuts how much parties can cost!

Did I succeed? Did I take 'cuteness' to the max? Guess- we'll have to wait and see! :) Promise to post pix!

One purple One blue

First of all let me say- twins are amazing...especially mine (motherly bias and all) but just having a set of twins is an absolute joy. BUT they bring a whole different set of issues and considerations when child rearing. Today was one of those days.

One child received a purple ribbon (first place) and one child received a blue ribbon (second place). NOW I know that they are two separate children who act in separate ways- so results, reactions and effects will indubitably be different. But in alot of unspoken, trivial ways they are classified as one. Referred to and thought of as one; twins. I do it- I admit it. But so do teachers, friends, family etc. However I also respect and appreciate their differences - which by the way vastly out number their similarities.

This combined with the fact they are as close as two siblings can get...a closeness that can sometimes breed extreme competitiveness...caused a bit of drama at the bus stop.

Ribbons were handed out last thing as kids were loading buses. One felt defeated- the other felt elated. I could tell the purple ribbon winner empathized with her sister, but it didn't help. Feelings were hurt.

The facts were and are this:
Both girls did SUPER! They prepared well and worked hard. Our blue-ribbon winner drew a bit of bad luck in the sense she had a harsh judge. One who scored their project 20+ points below what the other two judges did. The explanation on the judging form was: "More information was needed to express the validity of non-orbital bodies and criteria for naming the aforementioned as such within scholarly branches of astrophysical consideration." WHAT!? Poor thing- she didn't even know what he was asking. Did he know they were just 5TH GRADERS?! Idiot.

The mom in me wanted to track him down and smack him- how dare he! But instead we soothed our sweetie with praise, explained that obviously that judge was spastic and made chocolate covered strawberries (they always make things better!)

Science Fair

Last night was the super awesome District science fair! The girls did great...but results don't come in until tomorrow! The super bright neon green shirts were given to all the adolescent presenters. All the elementary schools and homeschooled 5th graders were there...Pucca even found a friend she goes to school with. There were some seriously fabulous displays and experiments! Thank goodness they aren't competing against eachother...

The presenters are judged according to preset criteria and then scored by three separate judges. Which means they had to present three separate times! Both girls started out a little nervous, but quickly calmed down and rocked it out! We are very pleased!