Colorful Birthday Wishes

Since last summer, when Cailin participated in the Summer Musical's production of 'Joesph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat" Delaney has been wanting to have a "Joesph" birthday party. Every month, she reminded me...."remember Mom, I want to have a 'Joesph....color party'." Her birthday month finally came and her desires became a colorful wish come true.The birthday guests. What a wonderful and colorful crew.

The party began by painting their own t'shirts, any way they wanted. Using paint brushes, bottle caps and canning rings they all came up with clever designs.

Delaney wanted a rainbow of colors on her shirt.
One party friend painted this shirt. The weather outside was cold and rainy...I think there was even a bit of snowy slush coming down at one time, but, inside we were very happy.

Showing off the myriad of colors.

After painting, the kids played a round of musical chairs. Of course, the music was from Andrew Lloyd Weber's 'Joesph...technicolor Dream Coat".

We learned from Cailin party last year, that the best way to play musical chairs is keep everyone in and only take out a chair after each stop in the music.

Piling on each other is just to much fun!

After a completely kid friendly, yet non- nutritious meal of hot dogs, chips and soda pop, it was time for cake. Because life has been a bit stressful lately, a dear friend volunteered to make Delaney's birthday cake for me. It turned out wonderfully. Thanks so very much L.

(As it turned out, the day became even more busy than I had anticipated. The day before the party, the ped's office called and told me that they had an appointment for Brianne's pulminologist for the next day. I told them I couldn't take it and they said, it was very hard to get into this office and it would be a long wait for the next available appointment.....okay, we're going to take it, I guess." We also had the book club group meeting. Whew, what a day, I sure couldn't have done a bit of it without great friends helping me. Thanks to everyone! )

It's present time!! She came away quite a few more LPS--littlest pet shop, toys to add to her ever growing collection. Other wonderful gifts were a soccor ball, barbie car, & gumballs.

Part of her plan was to put on a show for everyone at her party. She and her friend J. have practiced often in the past few months to refresh their memory of the songs they learned last summer. They performed wonderfully. It's amazing how well they can remember that list of color words-- "It was red, and yellow, and green and brown, and scarlet and black, and ocher and peach, and ruby and olive, and violet and faun, and lilac and gold, and chocolate, and mauve, and cream and crimson, and silver, and rose and azure, and lemon, and russet, and gray, and purple, and white, pink and orange, and BLUE!" (from the song)

C. with her birthday buddy. They both share
the same birthday!

Having fun playing LPS. Happy Birthday dear Delaney!