We celebrated Kaelia's birthday on Saturday by inviting three of her closest buddies from school along with Arianna and her friend, Maya, from Saudi Arabia. It was a lovely day!
Kaelia decided fairly early in the party planning process that she wanted to have a Frozen-themed birthday party just like last year. This time around, she was more involved in the planning, though. We came up with some games and food ideas together; we even made Elsa's ice powers (glittery blue silly putty) as prizes for the winners of the games! For food, we decided on troll rocks (meatballs), Olaf noses dipped in snow (carrots and ranch dressing), fixer upper fruit, and melted cheese sandwiches to melt a frozen heart (cut with heart-shaped cookie cutters).
Kaelia, Taelyn, and Arianna were also eager to prepare for the party over the weekend. Each morning, they woke up before the adults and got to work right away on creating decorations. Then they taped their pictures throughout the house a few hours before the party started. Here are a couple of their decorations.
Before the party started, Justin and I gave Kaelia her first gift: her own perfume (because she always takes mine) and Anna's coronation gown from Frozen. Kaelia loved them both and wore them both to the party.
At the party, Kaelia was a great little hostess and a good sport. She greeted everyone at the door and immediately brought them over to where the fun was currently happening. When Kaelia won a game, she graciously gave up her prize for one of her guests.
After games, Kaelia and her friends decorated their own cupcakes. We tried to put some candles in one of the cupcakes to sing happy birthday to Kaelia, but they started to fall over halfway through the song! She didn't mind at all and then enjoyed her own decorated cupcake afterward.
Next, Kaelia opened up her presents. She got a bracelet-making kit from her best friend in her class (Maren), a Frozen tennis set from her boyfriend (Jayden), a big-eyed stuffed animal from the other boy she loves (Eli), a Littlest Petshop monkey from Maya, a My Little Pony human from Ari, and a My Little Pony human and pony from Taelyn. Taelyn was especially excited to give her presents to Kaelia because they are some items that we couldn't find in Qatar, and Taelyn did a little research among her friends to find out where we could find them. She couldn't wait for Kaelia to open the gift and talked about it for weeks with me. The next door neighbors also stopped by the party,
and Keira and Ewan gave her a little purse filled with rings and necklace that says "5."
Kaelia loved all of her presents and kept talking about how nice her friends were to get her such great presents. Her best quote was, "My friends did even think about themselves. They just thought about me!" as she reflected on how hard it can be to buy someone a birthday present and not just focus on what she would want for herself at the toy store.
Kaelia had such a special day, and we are so thankful that she got to spend it with such great buddies!
Kaelia decided fairly early in the party planning process that she wanted to have a Frozen-themed birthday party just like last year. This time around, she was more involved in the planning, though. We came up with some games and food ideas together; we even made Elsa's ice powers (glittery blue silly putty) as prizes for the winners of the games! For food, we decided on troll rocks (meatballs), Olaf noses dipped in snow (carrots and ranch dressing), fixer upper fruit, and melted cheese sandwiches to melt a frozen heart (cut with heart-shaped cookie cutters).
Kaelia, Taelyn, and Arianna were also eager to prepare for the party over the weekend. Each morning, they woke up before the adults and got to work right away on creating decorations. Then they taped their pictures throughout the house a few hours before the party started. Here are a couple of their decorations.
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At the party, Kaelia was a great little hostess and a good sport. She greeted everyone at the door and immediately brought them over to where the fun was currently happening. When Kaelia won a game, she graciously gave up her prize for one of her guests.
After games, Kaelia and her friends decorated their own cupcakes. We tried to put some candles in one of the cupcakes to sing happy birthday to Kaelia, but they started to fall over halfway through the song! She didn't mind at all and then enjoyed her own decorated cupcake afterward.
Next, Kaelia opened up her presents. She got a bracelet-making kit from her best friend in her class (Maren), a Frozen tennis set from her boyfriend (Jayden), a big-eyed stuffed animal from the other boy she loves (Eli), a Littlest Petshop monkey from Maya, a My Little Pony human from Ari, and a My Little Pony human and pony from Taelyn. Taelyn was especially excited to give her presents to Kaelia because they are some items that we couldn't find in Qatar, and Taelyn did a little research among her friends to find out where we could find them. She couldn't wait for Kaelia to open the gift and talked about it for weeks with me. The next door neighbors also stopped by the party,
and Keira and Ewan gave her a little purse filled with rings and necklace that says "5."
Kaelia loved all of her presents and kept talking about how nice her friends were to get her such great presents. Her best quote was, "My friends did even think about themselves. They just thought about me!" as she reflected on how hard it can be to buy someone a birthday present and not just focus on what she would want for herself at the toy store.
Kaelia had such a special day, and we are so thankful that she got to spend it with such great buddies!
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