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Jun. 26th, 2007 08:37 pmI spent some time shopping for Maria's 1/2 B-day party tonight. She came along and helped.
I've managed to avoid the Disney princess thing so far...but I don't think I'm going to make it on the cake. I offered to make her a "princess" cake, you know the doll with the skirt as the cake thingy? She thought it was nice, but told me what she really wants is a "flat cake with lots of roses and stuff on it and in the middle a prince and princess dancing together." I must admit to feeling a wee bit uncomfortable with that. Why is MY princess dreaming of PRINCES at six and a half? Recently she has been somewhat obsessed with having some boy dolls "to be the princes". I broke down and let her get a Ken doll some time ago to go with her Disney princess barbie-type dolls. I really didn't like it. Please tell me this is innocent. Convince me it is okay for her to have a prince and princess dancing on her cake. If I say no I'll have to explain why and give her a complex about mysterious "grown up" stuff she isn't ready for and shouldn't even be thinking about yet. ARG!
Anyhoo...we are going to decorate in pink, purple, and yellow. Lot of froo froo. We will have tea party style thing, using my real china. The girls will start out decorating princess crowns and foam picture frames with jewels and glitter glue. We'll take a pic of them all together as soon as everyone is here and then Brad is going to print out a pic for each of the girls and we'll put them in the frames before they leave. During the crafts, we'll have a makeup and nail polish table set up too. Then we'll have our tea party and then open gifts. That should easily eat up the two hours I set for the party. The goodie bags will then contain the crown they each made, the frame with picture, and a small blingy princesss pad of paper and pencil Maria thought was cool. Is that enough for favors? Is it okay to include the crafts as favors? Do I need to put in some candy or something? I was hoping to avoid candy.
I hope this goes okay. This is our first strictly "kid" party. I'm not feeling very confident about it.
I've managed to avoid the Disney princess thing so far...but I don't think I'm going to make it on the cake. I offered to make her a "princess" cake, you know the doll with the skirt as the cake thingy? She thought it was nice, but told me what she really wants is a "flat cake with lots of roses and stuff on it and in the middle a prince and princess dancing together." I must admit to feeling a wee bit uncomfortable with that. Why is MY princess dreaming of PRINCES at six and a half? Recently she has been somewhat obsessed with having some boy dolls "to be the princes". I broke down and let her get a Ken doll some time ago to go with her Disney princess barbie-type dolls. I really didn't like it. Please tell me this is innocent. Convince me it is okay for her to have a prince and princess dancing on her cake. If I say no I'll have to explain why and give her a complex about mysterious "grown up" stuff she isn't ready for and shouldn't even be thinking about yet. ARG!
Anyhoo...we are going to decorate in pink, purple, and yellow. Lot of froo froo. We will have tea party style thing, using my real china. The girls will start out decorating princess crowns and foam picture frames with jewels and glitter glue. We'll take a pic of them all together as soon as everyone is here and then Brad is going to print out a pic for each of the girls and we'll put them in the frames before they leave. During the crafts, we'll have a makeup and nail polish table set up too. Then we'll have our tea party and then open gifts. That should easily eat up the two hours I set for the party. The goodie bags will then contain the crown they each made, the frame with picture, and a small blingy princesss pad of paper and pencil Maria thought was cool. Is that enough for favors? Is it okay to include the crafts as favors? Do I need to put in some candy or something? I was hoping to avoid candy.
I hope this goes okay. This is our first strictly "kid" party. I'm not feeling very confident about it.
