Eggrolls and Chopsticks: It's A Party If You Say It is.

Little Miss Rosie Posie is still a little under the weather. She was going to have a birthday party today with a handful of our friends. We were going to meet at a local park but since she isn't feeling great I decided to rethink that idea and scale it back.

Hollis and family joined us for a very small party but that didn't dampen Rosie's spirit at all, I told her it was a party so she loved it. We played all sorts of old fashioned party games, pass the parcel, Please Mother May I, Musical chairs, pop the balloon etc., and each child got to win little prizes. I put all the prizes in a basket and if they won they got to choose. We kept it really fair with a little parental intervention, if you will, so they all won something. We made goody bags had balloons and of course cake. We love the cupcakes from here and have decided that the days of enormous birthday cakes are over, it is Misha's for us from now on. I have never seen kids eat cake, they usually snarf the icing and are done but with these tiny cupcakes they eat it all.

The girls all played in their usual style before lunch and then afterwards we started the fun and games. I remember at some point Hollis saying it was time to go but thankfully 2 hours later they were still here and the girls were still playing their little hearts out. As Hollis loaded her car we had a good laugh when we noticed that Lily and Rosie were buckled in as well. Hollis is family along with her girls and Mother. We cannot celebrate any occasion without them and Rosie refers to her as her Hollis Bollis. The other day she asked if Hollis could come to her party without her girls so that she could spend sometime with her alone. Hollis and I got a good laugh over that.

It takes a lot of puff to blow out 5 candles. We always have one for luck on our cakes.