The Princess Party

About 3 weeks ago, Corlissa asked me for the millionth time when her birthday would be here. i want to have a party and have cake and get dressed up! Finally without thinking much about it, I said we can have a party. We can have cake and get dressed up. It just won't be for your birthday. I was thinking why not have a play date and invite 3 or 4 friends. It would be a lot of fun. Later that afternoon, I picked her up at preschool and 2 or 3 of the little girls looked at me and said, " Can I come to Cora's party? " " Can I come too? "
She had gone to school and told everyone that she was having a party and they could come!
I couldn't say no to those sweet four year old faces! I said sure, you can come. I decided we would call it a princess party and do a fun craft and have a snack and gift exchange.
I got the invites ready and invited all 16 girls in Cora's class plus our neighbor next door. I know you are wondering, Andie - are you insane? You just invited 17 kids to your house at the same time in November when they can't go outside! Nope, I'm not insane, just completely in love with my little girl. I just wanted to do something nice for her and for the girls in her class. Corlissa always wants to wear her pretty dresses and seldomly has a good place to wear them.

Well, yesterday at 9:30 am, we welcomed 11 little girls, plus another 8 moms, plus one little sister to our castle. Here was the plan: First the girls did either craft or game time. I found this great craft to do at JoAnn's ( yes for all of you who know my displeasure for crafts, I did a craft with them and we enjoyed it, maybe I'm coming around) . It was princess wands. I should have a picture of those. I guess I don't though. The game we did was hullabaloo in the basement. There were so many of them, that it was kind of hard to get them all to play the game. Once all the crafts were done, we were all downstairs, we tried to play duck duck goose, princess version, but they weren't really into that either. For heaven's sake! I was shocked that these girls weren't excited to paly duck duck goose. Some of them were saying. I don't want to chase. I don't like this game. So we moved on to the next thing. Luckily one of the other Mom's jumped in with a fun idea. She crafted a story with them. That was really great.
Next we did story time. I read the book Gigi - God's little princess to them. It's a cute story, that in the end the kids learn that they are all princess in God's eyes. This was really fun and nice to read to them. And best of all, Cora loves the story.
After that we went upstairs for cupcakes and lemonade. I had no complaints aobut that. The cupcakes were yellow cake with strawberry frosting with cute sprinkles on them. Just perfect for a princess party.

Finally we did a little gift exchange. Each girl brought a small gift. Then I called out names and they each got to take a turn to go up and pick out a gift.
I think everyone was pretty happy.

so are you wondering what possessed me? I guess I just wanted to do something special for all the girls and have a fun time with them.
Praise the Lord it went well, and there was no fighting or injury!