Our little Claire turned 2! To celebrate, we threw a "Bubbles and Brunch" party for her with some of her friends. Plus, we celebrated while my family was in town, so the cousins were able to join in on the fun as well!
We began with some games:
(1) Find the fuzzy bubbles. (An easter egg hunt equivalent, but with little fuzzy balls - always a hit)
(2) Pass the bubble beach ball around in the circle to music. Yeah, I may have forgotten to prepare this game, so we followed whatever instructions happened to come out of my mouth next.
(3) Bubble madness with the bubble machine. Enormous bubbles were also supposed to exist, but I completely forgot about it and the huge wand sat inside in its package the whole party. Oops.
Claire at one point froze (as seen in bottom right photo) and stood like that in front of the bubbles for several minutes, despite the bubble chaos around her.
The good photos above (the top three) are courtesy of Elina Ylitalo.
It turns out the theme of bubbles/dots/circles is as easy as it gets. You can find dots on just about anything. I forgot to take a photo of the set up, but for food we had pancakes with sprinkles, eggs (they were supposed to be hard-boiled for the round effect, but I was met with resistance on that one), donut holes, blueberries, sprinkled animal cookies, bubbly orange juice, and chocolate milk with straws (for blowing bubbles). And of course, my signature (can't mess-'em-up) cupcakes with sprinkles, mini ice cream cones and cream puffs for dessert.
I am not sure what Claire is wishing for, but it looks like she is pretty confident that it's going to happen.
Photo of Claire on the left, courtesy of Elina Ylitalo.
It seems the kids all had a good time.
And Claire certainly loved all of her great gifts.
Happy Birthday, Claire!
3 comments:
Did Jason ever get to do the helium voice-over before the balloons went flat? We didn't have him do that while we were all there. :(
You better believe he did - he sang a Little Mermaid song. He even tried to get the kids to breath it in, too, but I guess their voices are already too high because we couldn't tell a difference. :)
It takes some talent to suck that stuff in. I remember my first time I was so afraid that if my lungs didn't get any air with one breath, I would die. I still took the chance, though, and finally got it right.
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