For my daughter’s 6th birthday party, we decided to host 10 girls at our house to a pretend slumber party. In the past we have rented a space to host the party, which has always been very expensive. I can’t believe my type-A personality didn’t realize having a winter baby would make outdoor (free space) birthday parties impossible!! Our apartment is a nice size, but certainly doesn’t have an extra room like a rumpus room that a house might have. We knew that having the party here would be intense, so we decided to embrace that.
Neil made a huge blanket fort that took up most of our living room. It had two “rooms” and Lindsay decorated the back part. It looked a little like Jeannie’s bottle from I dream of Jeannie. Neil also set up a video camera to our tv, so the kids could dance to the music and see themselves on tv. Our friend Courtenay came and helped us make cootie catchers and paint fingernails. We played Light As a Feather, Stiff As a Board, which was new to all of the kids. In case you didn’t play that as a kid, here’s how it works. One kid lays on her back and keeps her body stiff. All the other kids kneel around her. They place two fingers from each hand under the stiff kid. Then they all lift their hands up at the same time (we chanted Light As a Feather, Stiff As a Board in a spooky voice) and lift the kid in the air. You wouldn’t think it would work, but it does. And nobody got dropped. They even picked me up.
I think the girls had a great time and loved the cake. I made that crazy cake using marshmallow fondant. The girl on the left is Lindsay and the others vaguely look like some of her friends. The cake was a chocolate buttermilk cake that I got from Epicurious and have made in the past.
Neil and I were pretty much exhausted for the rest of the weekend, but Lindsay and all her friends had a blast.
