Rainbow Party For My Madison Claire

So this year when asked what kind of cake do you want for your birthday, Madison replies with "A rainbow cake". She loves the Rainbow song from an episode of The Cat In The Hat, "Red, orange, yellow, then green followed by blue, indigo and violet, that's a rainbow song for you." She sings it all the time. Here is a clip. http://youtu.be/4Fs81MDwCzk

We made rainbow colored old school paper chains.

  

I made a homemade rainbow pinata out of three paper sacks and tissue paper. It was super strong and the kids couldn't even break it, but they had fun trying. I would suggest layering 2 sacks instead of three.

I made a seven layer rainbow cake too. Very pretty! My cake stand was made from a cute blue plate and bowl I found at Wal-Mart. Cost $3.00. Glued together with some construction adhesive.

I wrote the words to "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" on my kitchen chalkboard.


We hung paper chains and a rainbow colored balloon arrangement over the table. Of course there were balloons of all colors everywhere! I hung poster boards on the wall in the family room bordered with rainbow streamers so the kids could color wall murals. There was also swimming, the slip-in-slide and water balloons for the kids to cool off. Overall it turned out to be a wonderful day and Madison had a fabulous birthday.

Happy Fourth Of July

Instead of celebrating the fourth at our place, this year on the fourth we celebrated at a friends house. It was actually nice to just sit back and enjoy the food and the fireworks instead of having to play hostess. I made a fun shirt using a bleach pen, and very groovy rice krispie treats!!

Pardon the small blood stain, my daughter skinned her knee that night.

It's the little moments like these that remind me of why I love my child so!!

I doubled my recipe. Just a tip, very messy dying the red and blue so wear gloves!