Quinn's Birthday Picks

For whatever reason I decided that last night was the night I was going to take Quinn to the party store so she could pick out her decerations. I wasn't too sure what to expect from her and really, really, really tried to let HER do the picking without my influence. I think I told her no just a few times when the cost of the item (or how many she wanted) was way more than I felt appropriate for a 3rd birthday party. So, this is what she chose:

Party hats (I tried to get just 1 pack of 8 but it seemed really important to her that EVERYONE wears a party hat so sprung for 2 packs of the cheapest that I could find), green and pink plates, orange napkins, red and pink forks, a pack of squawkers (I guess for when we 'surprise' her) and not pictured is a round, foil balloon that is purple and says 'Princess' on it, an Alligator/Crocodile balloon (don't know why but she chose it so I went with it) and then we got a dozen latex balloons (2 in each color) in these colors (all chosen by her, obviously): green, yellow, purple, pink, red and brown. Should be a colorful party! The most important buy of all though was her purple tiara. She wouldn't leave the store without it and it actually took a little convincing to get her to take it off long enough for the cashier to ring it up. We are in SO much trouble if that is any indication of how she's going to be as a teen!

I thought about making one of those doll cakes but then decided that I just don't want to stress out about a 3 year old's party and since I'll be working the night before her party, I won't have time to do much with it. So, we headed over to Safeway to order a cake. We looked at the ones on display but she found one in their little book that she liked. The bakery was closed so we stopped back by this morning after stroller strides and she still picked that same one. It's actually cupcakes and then they frost them all too look like a cake and put her name on it. That's it! Oh, I guess there are some balloons on it. Simple and colorful!

As far as I know she is still wanting pizza to eat so we'll see if that changes or not by next week. Hey, if I can just order pizza and have it delivered, I'm a happy Mommy! Otherwise, I'll be buying Costco deli stuff Friday night after work:)

One thing that she thought she really needed was an 'Old McDonald' plastic table cloth. I told her I had several plastic table clothes at home and she could pick out the color we use. That seemed to be a good compromise to her so that's good. Although when we got home and were telling Daddy about everything we bought, she told him we got the table cloth and that we didn't get the Alligator/Crocodile balloon because, in her words, That's Silly! Hmmmmm, guess she'll be surprised!