Saturday was the big day! It was birthday party day! I stayed up preparing and baking as I normally do for our children's parties (Chuck E Cheese here we come)! Mayleigh had a special lavender and purple crown cake, and a #1 cake. That morning we had our last week of soccer games, and returned home a little later than hoped. So, that meant we hit the floor running finishing up most of the details. At 2pm, guest started arriving to the castle and coming down the red carpet! Everyone snacked a bit and then it was time for some Royal Games. Each child decorated their own crown, and they loved doing this. They decorated for about 20 minutes. Then we played our own version of "Pin the tail on the donkey", which was "Put Mayleigh in her Castle". A friend had made Mayleigh's castle out of poster board, paint, and paper, and it was AWESOME!!! I printed little pictures of mayleigh and placed a crown on her head! We used these for each child to tape to the castle blind folded. It was lots of fun! We also played Pass the Frog and Build the Castle (which was boxes wrapped in silver wrapping, but they enjoyed destroying the castle the best)!!!!! We sang, ate cake (those who got chocolate cake enjoyed a BIG piece), and opened presents. You can see that Mayleigh enjoyed her lavender and purple crown!!!! After the party, Mayleigh went down for a long nap! She had fun, but she wasn't too sure what to think of all that fun!
