Kalia's 4th Birthday

Princess Kalia's 4th Birthday Celebration!
We all had a magical day...

It started with opening some gifts.
Kalia fell in love with this nightgown from tutu & grandpa...

... and so did Maya. We had to pry it out of her hands
so Kalia could try it on - poor Maya, she was quite upset.
It's hard to be the sister of the birthday girl.
She was only happy when I put her in a pretty
dress with white ballet tutu underneath.
That would make me happy too.

Opening gifts in new, long, long
shimmery, pink nightgown.
What's not to love?

The princesses arriving and playing in "Kalia's Castle".
The completed castle was totally worth
all the late night work - the princesses loved it!

After the princesses arrived, they had two projects:
One end of the table there was glittery sticker earrings,
rings to chose from and make your own cereal necklace.
Mirror to make sure everything was just right.
On the other end, it was decorate your crown,
sticker jewels and glittery star stickers.

Princess Scarlett & Princess Kalia

The girls line up before our "pin the kiss on the frog" game.
I told the girls that there was a frog here who says he is a prince
and he's looking for a princess to kiss him.
Before I could even grab the stick on kisses - they
were all over at the frog giving him real kisses!

Princess Leila (Princess Tiare's little sister) get to try.
Yes, I did dress up as the queen- well, I already had my crown.

For giving the frog prince their kisses,
they all were given princess ribbon wands.

I took plastic wine glasses and decorated them with "jewels"
and served the girls "princess punch" out of a wine decanter.
This is Maya lovin' the princess punch - at this point,
she had already tried on someone's princess dress and then gone down to just diaper.
The "wine" was from the Juicy Juice Winery, Napa Valley, 2010

The girls feasting on heart shaped sandwiches
and other goodies.

After lunch we played "Snow White's Apple".
Basically hot potato, but they passed the apple really slowly:)
As the music played, they passed the apple from
princess to princess and when the music stopped,
they had to take a bite of the apple and then fall asleep.
The last princesses awake, got to wake up
all the princesses by giving them chocolate "kisses".
Before the game I asked them to tell me
the story of Snow White and they all raised their
hands and took turns telling the tale.

My Birthday Girl
Oh, the dress. Yes, this is Deveraux's dreamy Cinderella dress.
I asked Deveraux's mom to bring extra dresses, since they have quite a few,
just in case someone did not dress.
The girls totally all switched dresses - some multiple times.
Since Deveraux decided to wear something different, Kalia
jumped at the chance to wear this one. And they let us keep
it for a couple of days - yes, she wore it today also.
Happy girl - yes.

The game with sleeping Snow Whites.

Eating melty chocolate kisses after.

As you can imagine, it was full paparazzi.
We couldn't help but have the girls pose -
they were having so much fun.
They LOVED being princesses!

In fact, while we waited to take this group photo,
Shannon asked them all what they were going to wish
with their princesses wands.
All the girls said that they wanted to be princesses,
except Scarlett who said she wanted to be a ballerina
and Devyn who said she wanted all her friends to be happy - too sweet!

Princess Power
Tiare, Scarlett, Devyn, Kalia, Deveraux, Hanna

The cake.
At 5:30am, when I was working on this - I was a
little concerned as it was so hot the frosting was melting off!
But it turned out OK in the end.
I got this set on ebay store and it included all the
princesses.

Let them eat cake!

And drink "wine", I mean "princess punch".

Then it was free play in Kalia's room.
Everyone left with their princess totes.
It was a lot of work, but soooo worth every minute.
Kalia & the girls had a blast!