Mia's party - A belated post

So this post is nearly 2 months late.  There are a few problems.  First, we have been livin it up summa style.  This means kids late to bed and no time at night to do anything but veg for an hour til I myself fall asleep.  Second, I took the party pictures on my real camera.  You know, the fancy, expensive one... not my phone.  And the task of transferring those pictures to the computer, well that there is a task.  Especially since I swear I couldn't find the camera charger that I looked really, really hard for.  I finally mentioned this to Matt weeks later who then found it in about 30 seconds plugged into the wall right next to the computer. 

So, with all those excuses said,  I did actually throw Mia a party for her fourth birthday.  We did a very low key birthday party last year, which I absolutely loved.  I was really pushing for another  low key party, but Mia insisted on having exactly what her brother had.  Same location, same big bouncy house.  I couldn't really tell her that I was still too tired from his party to do it again, and too bad his birthday always comes first.  And she was very insistent that she wanted to invite all the girls AND the boys from preschool.  This was so a particular boy would come to her party.  Oh, just a boy she talks about every single day but refuses to speak to.  Instead she makes me go ask him things after school.  And she always reports whether or not he talked to her that day.  And I am fine with her being too shy to talk to boys til she's 21.   

Mia and her boy crush



The party theme was little mermaid, with some Lightning McQueen stuff for the boys, per Mia's insistence.   In addition to the bouncy house, we had coloring...

Painted treasure boxes

 

Had lots of food

 

 

And of course what's a party without the piñata.