The Tangled Birthday Party

The theme for this year's birthday party was "Tangled"...

Kayli and I had lots of fun making the special cakes. Kayli loved the part where we got to use food coloring to magically transform the frosting into the colors we wanted...

Our friends Paula, Nickolaus, Kaitlynn, and David sent Kayli a birthday package that contained this plush chameleon named Pascal, who is Rapunzel's best friend while she grows up in the tower...

I let Kayli pick out some things to buy at the Disney store as her birthday presents from me. One item she said she "just couldn't live without" was this long blonde Rapunzel braid that we had to use multiple hair claws to keep anchored on her head!

we also found this fun "birthday skirt" at C*laires, for Kayli to wear...

we had a fun jewelry craft out on the table, for the girls to complete as they arrived...

they had great fun choosing the letters for the words they wanted to spell out on their bracelets, like "fun"  "wow" "cool" or some other hilarious "made up word!"

we played "pin/tape the bow on Rapunzel"...

that was a hit!

there were lots of great presents to open...

One of the birthday bags even had an old nacho cheese dorito in the bottom that Kayli "teased" everyone by pretending to eat it, just to get a laugh from the crowd! Oh, my little comedian...makes me think about your Aunt Suzanne swallowing a live goldfish on a dare! I think she did get a free t-shirt out of the whole thing, right Suzanne?
So, back to the party, we moved on to the birthday song and blowing out the candles...

more silliness and lots of yum, yum, yumming, while everyone ate the strawberry cake with vanilla frosting, and a scoop of rainbow sherbert on the side...

finally it was time for everyone to head into the theatre, er, I mean living room, for a grand showing of the movie Tangled, while enjoying freshly popped kettle corn!
You might notice Kayli doing her impression of Rapunzel getting ready to "bean" Flynn Rider over the head with a frying pan...

there was one tiny little boy at the party today, just kickin' back, and taking in all the commotion, and generally being a really good sport! He even got to snuggle with the birthday girl, and that birthday girl was in pure heaven with that sweet baby in her lap!

when the last little girl had been handed her goodie bag and was heading out the door with her parent, suddenly Kayli's shy little 3 year old friend, Lily, just sprang to life! She had been quite shy with all the party girls, but now she and Kayli were running around the house wearing fairy wings and playing up a storm! Neither of the girls wanted this day to end!
Thank-you to Lily's mom, Linsey, for helping me pull off yet another successful wild and crazy birthday party!