Saturday was a magical day for our family. We celebrated our daughter's 5th birthday with a princess tea party. It was phenomenal.We had 14 little princesses and 2 little boys at the party. It was such an awesome party that the buzz is still going on at her school, at Greg's work and in our family. After the whole fiasco with the park, I decided that we should just consider having the party at our home and doing a tea party. Adryana has been fascinated with tea parties for a little while now and I knew she would really love one. Her only hesitation was when she realized that it would be an all girls party. She felt "bad" about not inviting all her friends from school because she thought the boys would be sad. She's really a very sweet girl and she doesn't like to make anyone sad.So with only 3 weeks to plan, everything was a bit crazy and overwhelming but I had so much help and support from our family. My best friend spent 2 days at our house helping me organize, clean, watching the kids so I could do the shopping and even helping me decorate and set up the night before the party. Greg's parents and my parents drove up from Ft. Lauderdale and helped set up and prepare for the party and even cooked some of the food. We are truly blessed with our parents' love and support. Thank you all.
Adryana wanted "The Little Mermaid" as the theme for her party. On Friday night my friend and I decorated our dining room ceiling to make it look like a under the sea scene. We used blue streamers for waves, green streamers hanging down for seaweeds and blue balloons for bubbles. Then later Greg's mom and I set up 2 tables (seating for 12 girls) and 1 toddler table table (with seating for 6). We also had a "cake" table which had pictures of Adryana and also some of her dolls and princess stuff. We used real teacups (little cute green ones with "Little Mermaid" stickers) and everything else on the table were blue and green. See photo.
On the invitations I asked all the girls
to wear their favorite princess costume and they all came dressed as various Disney princesses. Adryana was dressed as "The Little Mermaid". When the girls got here they mingled for a little while until they were all here. As best as perfect timing could go it went well because the "princess" came exactly at the right time. I went outside to meet here and gave her a gift box for Adryana that had her gloves and wand which I had purchased for the party. I came back inside and had all the girls in our foyer and then opened the door and the "princess" walked in. The girls were all in awe and the best part was when she asked for Princess Adryana. Adryana's voice was barely a whisper when she said "I'm right here" and the princess handed her the box. She said thank you but got all shy and didn't want to open the box. afterwards she did it and we headed upstairs for our "make-over session." We used glitter make-up and lip gloss on the girls. While we were doing that some of the girls were making beaded bracelets and I also gave each girl a beaded necklace. When we were finished upstairs I had all the girls in a line on the staircase and then my little brother escorted each girl one at a time to her seat. I asked Greg's Dad to announce each girl by Princess like Princess Adryana and so forth. I told the girls to give a princess wave as they walked by their mothers(only 2 Dads were brave enough to attend) on their way to their seats. It was absolutely fabulous. The girls were so fantastic. After they were all seated the "princess" s
poke to them about tea manners and the girls got a kick out of saying "please pass the sugar." It was so cute! We served chocolate tea (warm chocolate milk) or apple tea (apple juice) to all the girls. They had little teaspoons to use to get 1 or 2 lumps of sugar (white mini-marshmallows in a sugar bowl). We also served mini cookies, grapes, chocolate-covered strawberries and PB&J sandwiches. The girls were adorable, they really got into enjoying the tea party and no they did not break any of the teacups or saucers. It was amazing!!
to wear their favorite princess costume and they all came dressed as various Disney princesses. Adryana was dressed as "The Little Mermaid". When the girls got here they mingled for a little while until they were all here. As best as perfect timing could go it went well because the "princess" came exactly at the right time. I went outside to meet here and gave her a gift box for Adryana that had her gloves and wand which I had purchased for the party. I came back inside and had all the girls in our foyer and then opened the door and the "princess" walked in. The girls were all in awe and the best part was when she asked for Princess Adryana. Adryana's voice was barely a whisper when she said "I'm right here" and the princess handed her the box. She said thank you but got all shy and didn't want to open the box. afterwards she did it and we headed upstairs for our "make-over session." We used glitter make-up and lip gloss on the girls. While we were doing that some of the girls were making beaded bracelets and I also gave each girl a beaded necklace. When we were finished upstairs I had all the girls in a line on the staircase and then my little brother escorted each girl one at a time to her seat. I asked Greg's Dad to announce each girl by Princess like Princess Adryana and so forth. I told the girls to give a princess wave as they walked by their mothers(only 2 Dads were brave enough to attend) on their way to their seats. It was absolutely fabulous. The girls were so fantastic. After they were all seated the "princess" spoke to them about tea manners and the girls got a kick out of saying "please pass the sugar." It was so cute! We served chocolate tea (warm chocolate milk) or apple tea (apple juice) to all the girls. They had little teaspoons to use to get 1 or 2 lumps of sugar (white mini-marshmallows in a sugar bowl). We also served mini cookies, grapes, chocolate-covered strawberries and PB&J sandwiches. The girls were adorable, they really got into enjoying the tea party and no they did not break any of the teacups or saucers. It was amazing!!After the "tea party" we played a few games. We played "pass the wand"(hot potato) and when a girl was "out" I told them that they would be able to take a picture with the princess. That seemed to work except for the first girl who cried. While we were playing that game I asked by best friend to hide one of each girls' slippers and then we played hide and go seek to find the missing slippers. The girls really enjoyed that. Then we started the dancing part, we did freeze dance, limbo and cha-cha-slide. Adryana had so much fun and so did the others. Later we sang happy birthday to you, cut the cake and opened her gifts. It was a fantastic party. We could really tell that she had a lot of fun and so did her friends.
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