Saturday was Gretchen's birthday party at Bounce U… a local bounce house party place. Gretchen and I had originally decided she would have a princess tea party birthday with just the girls, but then Gretchen met this boy, and that led to changing the entire party theme. You see, she couldn't not invite her best little boy-friend. He would be sad if he couldn't come to her girls only party. I tried to explain that he wouldn't want to come to her princess party, and she insisted on inviting him and all of the boys in her class as well. She just could not hurt his feelings. So, we decided to change the theme of her party to a Super-Royal Bounce Party.
We knew that she would be wearing her Princess Sofia dress that she wore on Halloween. In fact, I have kept it in my closet since Halloween, so she wouldn't play in it and mess it up before her birthday. But, I had to come up with a way to get the boys involved. So, we settled on a super-hero princess party.
I don't have a picture of her invitation. I know that I should, but we've all been so sick over the last several days that I just don't have it in me. Bounce U provided us with invitations, and then I printed off paper invites that explained her party.
The wording went something like this:
"You're Invited to Gretchen's Super-Royal Bounce Party. Please wear your favorite princes for super hero costume. Please leave swords, jewels, and tiara's at home. Don't forget to wear your royal slippers (socks). A royal feast of pizza and cupcakes will be served."
The invites also had a Sofia and Clover picture and a Spiderman picture. Gretchen chose spider man because he is her friends favorite.
Those invites were stapled to the Bounce U invites and I sent them to school with her to pass out to everyone in her class.
Gretchen before her party. I'm not sure why she poses like this every time I try to get a picture. I'm sure she thinks she's super cute and precious, and it is, but it's a bit silly too.
We finally convinced her to just stand still.
Gretchen and a few of her friends playing foos-ball before the party.
The kids had to watch a safety video.
Then it was on to the bounce rooms.
These girls are our neighbors and I love their sweet friendship.
We have a gazillion dress up clothes, but none of them are in pristine condition because the girls play in them so often, so I decided that Megan would wear a spiderman shirt. I found this one on clearance at Old Navy for $3.00 in the little boys section.
My mom came up for the party and cuddled with Adalyn.
The ginormous slide was everyone's favorite!
The boy that inspired the super hero theme. Seriously y'all, she talks about him every single day. They sit at the same table, the play together at recess. They're best friends who have already planned to get married.
Megan climbed to the top of the slide and then she just cried and cried and refused to slide down. DJ finally had to climb up and get her to slide down with him!
Miss Addy
Meggie wanted to play on this inflatable, but she was too tiny to run and jump up on the incline. She stood there and cried until DJ climbed in and threw her up several times.
All of the kids in the party room for their royal feast!
Gretchen also likes to "pose" with food in her mouth. I went over to take her picture, and she seriously posed by taking a bite and pausing.
We had chocolate or vanilla cupcakes with purple and red icing and then purple or red sprinkles. We went with purple and red for Sofia and Spiderman.
We found the candle set at the Dollar Tree- it was perfect!
Time to sing Happy Birthday!
She loved the frosting!
Meggie eating her cupcake.
Time to open her presents!
Poor thing had been sick the day before her party, and even though she wasn't running a temperature, exhaustion was setting in.
After her party was over, Gretchen handed out her party favors. Bounce U offers a party package where favors are included, but they're little bags of candy and small trinkets, and they honestly drive me insane, so we decided to bring our own party favors.
The girls received a Princess Sofia coloring book and sticker book that I found at Target's Dollar Section.
The boys took home a small spiderman toy and sheets of Spiderman stickers that I found at the Dollar Tree.
Her party was so much fun! I usually go all out by making the invitations, making or ordering her outfit, making her hair bow, theme & color-coordinating everything, but this year, I had the least stressful time planning her party! And she said it was the "best birthday ever!" so that makes it totally worthwhile.
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