Author: Mellu

Planning kids parties – Littlest Pet Shop

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They are still over 1 1/2 months away, but I am already starting to plan birthday parties for my soon to be one year old and soon to be three year old.  I LOVE planning parties.  I often spend way too much time planning them (that’s why I am starting so early).  I just love getting into the theme and finding cute games or cute crafts to do at the party.  I think my last one… a Littlest pet shop party for Elise’s 6 birthday was my favorite (at home) so far!  I think it turned out so cute.  Here is a little snippet from it: 
We started out with a bit of lunch:  for the kids I made either PB and J or cheese sandwiches cut out into animal shapes, the adults got subway sandwiches, then there was “my” infamous fruit salad, fishy crackers, animal crackers, carrots … I think that was it.

Then, we moved on to the craft:  Littlest pet shop masks.  In the weeks before, I had spent (again way too much) time finding pictures of petshop characters online, printing them out, then cutting shapes of the individual colors, tracing and cutting them out of that foam paper stuff, putting all the pieces into ziplock bags along with a picture of what the petshop character should look like when it is done… then the kids glued the pieces onto the mask and we punched holes on the sides and put an elastic string to make it a mask.  They turned out SUPER cute and I think the kids all liked them!  They were all different and I think I made at least 15 or 16 of them.
 After the craft, we did a pull-the-string pinata (which was a dud… so we ended up just ripping it open and dumping it out.)

 

And cake!

Lastly, we set up a little pet shop for Elise.  She was the pet shop owner and each kid was given some play money and they all waited in line to buy a pet from the pet shop.  (their party favor)… it was so cute.  I drew a cage onto some clearish-white favor bags, so they could put their pets in their cages to take them home. 


It was so cute and fun.  I will blog soon about my plans for the next couple of parties!  🙂

What NOT to say to someone who has 4 girls

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A little over one year ago we found out we were having our 4th girl.  Although we had hoped to experience the adventures of raising a boy, we were grateful that God gave us another healthy, sweet little girl to add to our princess posse.  Whether you are raising girls or boys, they both have their challenges, and they are all blessings from the Lord!



With that said, I am going to start by writing up my version of a list that Dave wrote about all the dumb comments people say to him or I when they hear we have 4 girls.  Seriously, we hear these things pretty much every time one of us is out with all of them (or even just 3 of them).  I am sure most people mean well, but it is hard to hear some of these over and over (especially number 10!) as Dave said, “a hearty congratulations is plenty”

  1. Wow!  Hope you have a lot of bathrooms in your house!
  2. Does your husband have a shotgun?
  3. Does your husband have a baseball bat ready?
  4. You’re gonna have fun when they are all teenagers! or
  5. Are you going to move out when they all become teenagers?
  6. Puberty will be an exciting time at your place!  (I hear an even more negative version of this)
  7. Wow.. you will have a lot of weddings to pay for!
  8. You sure have your hands full!  (not always in a positive sounding voice)
  9. Better get some male dogs for your husband!
  10. “Poor Dave” or “Your poor husband”  (I am bothered by this one the most!)
  11. Good time to purchase that Mary Kay mini-van (Dave heard this one)
  12. Bet you have a lot of pink at your house. (this one isn’t so bad… 🙂  )








Here goes….

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Alrighty friends…. I decided to join the blogging world after years of resisting.  I have really enjoyed reading all my friends blogs and I feel like I need to be more than a blog stalker and also become a blog contributor.  I am surely NOT a writer, so don’t judge… LOL.  I just want to add snippets of my life and my kids and probably post craft ideas or yummy recipes (when I get a chance)… this is purely for fun!   So… here goes …