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Wow, what a crazy few days!! Glad we have a break, for a bit anyway!
Today was Ella's birthday party - with just her little girly-friends. It was a 'Tea Party' Birthday party! I have to say - I had a BLAST organizing it. Oh, how I love parties, and organizing!!!
So to start off with - the invite:
The invite was kind of like a book:
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Once upon a time there was a little girl named Ella. She had beautiful blue eyes, long blonde curly hair and she loved being fancy. She loved getting dressed up in very fancy clothes, putting on her most fancy jewellery and eating the fanciest foods.
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Once upon a time there was a little girl named Ella. She had beautiful blue eyes, long blonde curly hair and she loved being fancy. She loved getting dressed up in very fancy clothes, putting on her most fancy jewellery and eating the fanciest foods.
One day Ella wanted to have a fancy tea party, so she asked her mom. Do you know what her mother said? YES! She told Ella to invite her very good friends to dress up in their very fanciest clothes, put on their most fancy jewellery, and come over for the fanciest birthday tea party ever!
So Ella made up some beautiful invitations (with a little help from her mom), and made sure to include all the necessary information that she would need for her fancy tea party. For instance - when would it be?
Saturday June 26, 2010 at 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Where would it be?
Ella's house
And Ella made sure to tell her friends that instead of a gift, she would love it if her friends would bring some non-perishable food items so she could donate them to kids who aren't quite as lucky as she was.
(Her mom added that parents were welcome to come to the fancy tea party, and while Ella's friends were enjoying themselves (being all fancy that is), the moms could sip wine, nibble on some goodies and watch a movie)
The very next day at school Ella handed out the invitations to her very special friends. Then she patiently waited for them to RSVP (that's a fancy way of saying "Please let us know if you will come!"), and guess what?
...Well, you tell us! Are you coming?
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The 'girls'
Craft time (decorating their boxes - that were later filled with a real china tea cup to take home, with a home-made tea bag filled with candies inside!)
Just playin'!
After they got to make their crafts (and 'Fancy Nancy workbooks!), we sat and talked about being 'fancy'. Then I read them an email I got FROM Fancy Nancy! Boy were they impressed! And they learned 3 French words! (Everything sounds fancy in French!) It was very exciting. Lastly I read them the Fancy Nancy book we have.Ella, ready for the 'tea party' part!!
The table: jam sandwiches cut into shapes, pinwheel banana/pb&j and cucumber & cream cheese. Iced tea in the tea pot!
Candy sushi
Yummy fruit
The girls all ready!
Callie
Halle
Ella-Bells
Chloe
Ava
And Madi!
Midway through the tea party, Ella puked. Yup - right in the middle of the celebrations, her stomache got the best of her, and everything came up. Oops...! But we recovered really quickly, and she was good-to-go again. (Right after Callie leaned over to Halle and said: "It's ok, I just puked a couple days ago"!!!) ((Too much excitement from the last few days, plus she was very excited and I think drank too much iced tea (first time!) - too fast. Poor thing!)This is 'post' the incident now...singing 'Happy Birthday!'
She made a wish, and blew them out - left one though. Ugh...boyfriends here we come!
After the tea party the girls came downstairs and put on a number of plays and dances, including quite a few clothing changes...
Finally, Ella in the midst of her non-perishable food items all her girlfriends brought! (Plus a couple small gifts that came too) She's one happy (and tired) girl. :)
What a blast. I can't wait to get organizing the next one!!!!!!! :D
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