Life was very exciting for Navy on the day I asked her if she wanted to have her very own birthday party. She was SO excited and said, “I CAN’T believe that I get to have my very first birthday party!” I told her she could invite whomever she wanted, but that maybe we should make it a girl party. She was into that whole girl thing, but insisted that RoRo and Grey needed to also be there. So they made it as “guests” of Scout.
The theme: Art
The decorations: simple as Navy “painted” the town rainbow with one stroke of her paintbrush
The guests: Cute little girls with a few stinky boys tucked in
The set up: Art stations over easy-to-clean tile
I was a little worried that the art wouldn’t hold their attention for too long. But about 45 minutes into it, I had to close most of the girls down.
I liked the idea of already having a picture where they painted in the lines, because they were meticulously trying to make theirs little masterpieces.
The painting was a success.
Then it was game time. We played “Pin the paintbrush on Navy” — literally.
Navy didn’t know she was the pin board, and had a pretty funny reaction to it!
So as Navy stood there like a statue, each child had a real paintbrush with some duct tape, that they tried to pin onto Navy. Whomever got closest to getting it in her hand was the winner.
Our next “art” project was decorating cupcakes. Each girl got tweezers, and I told them how important it is to make food look like art so that everyone will want to eat it. And then they each got a cupcake and went to town with tweezing a variety of decorations.
Meticulous.
Meticulous.
Kind of meticulous.
Then it was present time. I have to admit that Navy’s latest problem with getting attention and acting silly or making sour faces had me worried. But she did a good job of getting presents and being really gracious.
Then it was off to one last game until the parents arrived — musical chairs.
This particular round was a battle between RoRo and Navy for the final chair!
Guess who woke up during musical chairs?
And went straight to the cupcake table and acted like a little vacuum.
This boy who ended up shirtless in his high chair — soon after.
It was a really simple and fun party. I know Navy loved it, and has told me different details that were fun ever since. I have to say that I was REALLY proud of her. I remember when I was such a little brat at my “stationary party”, my mom sent me to my room for part of it. But my little Navy was perfect. She was sweet, helpful, inclusive and very appreciative.
Basically, I couldn’t have asked for more from my little Flamenco dancer.
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