Gooey Goodness

It was recently Roo's birthday. And that means she get's a pinata. But that would also mean, her mother should start working on it WELL before her birthday. But if her mother doesn't, then her mother will improvise.

Yes. This worked fine, but it was made of paper, tape, cake foil, glue stick, ribbon, and held by yarn to hit it. It held up pretty well, but it was no paper mache beauty of my past. I only aced Spanish class because of my awesome pinata skills. Mr. Potato Head and Carmen Miranda never looked so good, as they did as my three feet tall high school pinatas! Hence, on everyone's fifth birthday, they get a pinata. Roo's wasn't one of my finest, but she loved it. And she and her friends had a great time whacking the heck out of it.





Party cupcakes. Each girl had their own initial on it. I borrowed candles from a friend; I haven't seen them here. But of course, I had no matches or anything to light it with. Roo was a great sport a pretending to blow them out. I think she enjoyed "acting."



I made sugar cookie dough and icing for Roo to take into class. Yet realized the note said "nothing with nuts" after I had everything mixed up. My recipe called for Almond extract. And I only had a bottle of almond flavoring with Arabic on it, so I wasn't totally sure if it was just extract, or had anything I should be worried about inside, in regards to nuts. So being the mother of a nut allergy, a child that is, I bagged it at 9 the night before, and came up with these little suckers.




I thought they were pretty cute, considering the lack of prep I had. AND see? Anyone who scoffed at me bringing my cricut, 8 thousand pounds of paper, and 150 rolls of ribbon was wrong! I just might use it all. Okay. Not really. But it was fun to use! And how 'bout the holder? Even I was impressed with myself. (empty box, wrapped, little holes poked in it and the flowers stuck in)




Bought this dress for her birthday at the Macy's sell before we lift. (again, all of my days and days of shopping pulling through for me!) After the annual birthday breakfast in bed, I said, "Would you like to wear a new dress to school today?" She squealed with delight. Really, her reactions for just about everything in life, make up for all of the shoulder shrugs my boys give me. She's just a delight. Usually... (when I showed her the pinata she hugged and hugged it saying "thank you mommy" over and over.)



Roo couldn't have her party on her actual birthday, we had to go to the main camp for Sam's game. Here he is in his uniform, posing in front of our bus. These are what the our buses look like that we ride all over. They're owned by the company, free, and take us just about everywhere. While they are really very nice. They're still a bus. Pretty dirty, stinky, and the kids still have to climb ALL over the place. Roo licked the window on this one. Seriously. Ew.



LATE night family present opening. She squealed with delight time after time. Again, all of my shopping and shipping paid off. She had a wonderful birthday. It was almost like being at home. Almost.
Happy Birthday Roo.