Slumber party

Karalee had a slumber party on Friday night. She has been super excited all week. We ordered pizza for them, and kept things easy with paper plates and cups.

Kara got about 20 bottles of nail polish in the raffle basket she won. So they had their pick of colors. They mostly did a good job with giving each other manis and pedis. I did have one little girl with red nail polish all over her fingers. I removed it all and did her nails myself since she was a little upset about it. She ended up happy.

They played lots of air hockey.

They also did each others' hair.

fabulous little sleeper-overers.

I think they had the most fun doing facials. Kara had 2 masks, a clear one that peeled away, and a green clay mask. So each girl got to choose which one she wanted.

The clear mask smelled pretty good, and peeled off rather easily.

But they really got a kick out of the clay masks.They ran around pretending to be zombies.

Kiersten's bff got to sleep over as well. Aren't they too cute???

I had to wash off the clay. It didn't peel off.

No one put a mask on Evie, and she felt badly. So I decided to put some on her. She was very happy to be included.

Look at all that fresh, dewy skin! They went on and on about how soft and clean their faces were. It was pretty great.

All snuggled up and ready for movie time! They ate tons of popcorn and candy. So it should be no surprise that they were up late. Ben went down at 1:30, and a few of them were asleep. Kiersten woke me up around 4, so I went down to check on them, and only Evie and one other girl were sleeping. The rest had either not fallen asleep yet, or already been woken. So I turned off all the lights and tv, and they fell asleep soon after. I let them sleep in til 8:30ish. I was planning to wake them after 9, but one girl was awake and bored. She kept asking when they'd wake up, so I decided we should go get them up. We had breakfast and a dance party until the parents came to get the girls. It was a fun time. I may have happened to see a journal entry of Kara's that she left on her desk describing it as the best night of her whole entire life.

Kara got the idea for these party favors in her slumber party book. She put all the goodies on a paper plate, and then stapled another plate on top. We glued on hello kitty pics to go with her theme. I had her leave the top unstapled, and tied it with a ribbon to keep everything in, but so the girls could easily get them open.

They also made lipgloss with Kara's kit she had. It turned out really sticky, but they loved doing it, and didn't seem to mind wearing the sticky, heavily scented lipglosses they created.

Summer has started!

The school bus was pretty late arriving on the last day of school. But that just gave us moms lots of extra time to prepare our cans of silly string!

It's pretty fun to spray the kids, I have to admit. But before long the cans seemed to end up in the kids' hands.

Kara must have gotten sprayed in the back of the head at close range. I had a heck of a time getting some of it to come out. It was really tangled in there.

Evie sure got a kick out of the whole ordeal.

I think they were a little excited for school to be out. They only had a half day, so they were home a bit after lunch.

 

After they all got off the bus and sort of cleaned up the silly string, we headed over to the park for a big play date.

I can not even explain how hard I was laughing when I saw this picture. Their faces just say it all.

I got this shot just as she launched the water balloon at Karalee.

And Kara after just having been hit... she wasn't too happy about it.

They had a fun afternoon playing with so many friends and eating snacks.

After the park we played at the pool for a bit, and then the girls had their first swim team practice.

Evie is waiting to do swim team next year. Ben came and picked her up so she didn't have to wait through both girls' practices.

Kara swimming in the far lane. She got tired pretty quickly.

Kiersten wanted to stay and play with her buddies during Kara's practice time.

A day with my baby

Yesterday Evie asked if I could take her to the zoo today. I agreed, since we had nothing planned, and she changed her mind to the magic house. By the end of the day, she had settled on going to Six Flags instead. That was fine with me, since it's easier to take just one girl. So after the big girls were off to school on the bus, I made pancakes with strawberries and whipped cream. She told me that she is soooo happy she got to have breakfast without her sisters there. Then we cleaned up and got the stroller loaded up so we could hit the road.

It was nice to get there early. We had a prime parking spot and for the first hour we were there, she was one of about 6 kids in the Bugs Bunny area. Around 11:30, tons of teenagers arrived by the busloads, but most of them stayed away from the kiddie area. A few did wander over, and try to get on the kid rides, but they were pretty quickly steered elsewhere by the employees running the rides.

She got really excited and said, "mommy! They're running the ride just for me!" I'm glad she rode this early on, because the girl running it left, and no one ever came back to run it again. Kids were waiting and waiting, and then giving up to ride the other things.

She got to dance with Bugs and Sylvester. We don't usually run into many characters on weekdays, so it was a pleasant surprise for her.

When Sylvester gave her a hug, she shouted, "No hugs from you, cat!" and ran back to me. She had the funniest little disturbed look on her face. She told me, "I did not want to hug that guy, he's a creep". I couldn't stop laughing, and most of the parents waiting in line were cracking up too. She didn't appreciate that, so I thought it was a good time to eat some lunch.

 

 

She didn't have a problem with Scooby Doo. After she hugged him, she was asking me if we could invite him over for dinner. I told her he only eats dog food, though. I thought I was kicking some butt on the Scooby Doo ride, shooting the monsters, but when the ride was over, I noticed that she had 4000 more points than me! I have taken Kiersten on that ride before, and she ended up with 0, so I was surprised.



She really wanted to ride in the carriage on the carousel, but we were pretty far back in line, so she had to ride a horse. She said, "it was fun but kind of un-awesome".

So we got in line again at the front, and she ran straight to the carriage. I was the King, and she was the Queen. Right as I was about to take this picture she said, "isn't this romantic?" She loved riding in the carriage, but to be honest, I found it to be slightly un-awesome. hehe.

She started asking for a nap, so I figured it was time to go. So we came home and had a nice little nap together. What a perfect day. As soon as her sisters are home from school she is planning a stuffed animal wedding in her bedroom. So hopefully they'll be up for that.