The girls feasted on cream cheese and jelly, peanut butter and jelly (of course cut into teacup and teapot shapes) and fruit salad. Of course we had to have edible little teacups. They were cute and a hit with the girls. They had cookie bottoms, a gummy peach ring, which was stretched around the top of an ice cream cone. Then filled with m&m's and a candy necklace.
I was most amazed that all the girls, were sitting at the table, eating and chatting, while the moms were able to eat in the kitchen and chat as well. By the way, for all the local PA peeps, Kings Bagels in the Acme shopping center of Downingtown...they have the BEST bagels here. Comparable to NY, in my opinion. I had them make a big platter of bagels; made up with either egg salad, chicken salad or tuna salad. They were delish. Anyway, I'm getting too excited about these bagels...my point of the story was that it was QUIET. The girls had such good table manners and were just sitting and chatting. After lunch, the girls all got sugar cubes and I set a timer for one minute, and had them see who could stack the highest tower without it falling over. The girls did this a few times, as I sat there envisioning the next days ant problem. Afterwards, they went down to play in the basement while we cleaned up and got ready for cake. Here is when the boys were allowed to come back from Chuck E. Cheese, where they were hiding out. As soon as the front door opened and 6 little boys ran into the house, you would have thought you were seated in Madison Square Garden and Justin Bieber walked onstage. The screaming and yelling and laughing went from a 2 to a 20, on a scale of 1 through 10.
So we sang and had cupcakes, cake, ice cream, cookies....the works. It was sugar central.
Then, present time. Having twins open presents at the same time is kind of a shit show. Between trying to write down (or in this case, have my mom write it down) who gave what and take a picture, and see who was getting what...it was time for a drink at that point. And not a cup of tea. Something much, much stronger.
After the girls friends left, my college friends stayed around with their kids and we had the "After Party". This consisted of 100 water balloons that took my husband 1 hour to fill, but took 1 minute to go through. Thank goodness for the waterslide!
At the end of the day, a few more friends stopped over and we BBQ'd, and then later, it was time for the mommy's party to begin. Strawberry Shortcake Martinis were in order. Check it out: 2 oz Cake Vodka, 2 oz. Amaretto and 2 oz. of Lemonade. Muddle fresh strawberries and serve over ice. It's delish. The 6th round, at 2am probably wasn't the smartest thing, but boy we were having fun. This morning, at 7am; that was a completely different story.
All in all, it was a great weekend. My house is a mess, but my kids are happy....and isn't that why we do all of this craziness?!
UPDATE! The twins party was shown as the party of the day on one of my favorite party sites: Catch My Party! Check it out!!!
http://catchmyparty.com/party-of-the-day/1449
Great job Momma! <3 those strawberry shortcake martinis!
ReplyDeleteHow about kudos to the dads and granddads who kept the boys corralled and had to deal Uppychuck Cheesey's, in order to providethe little ladies with their perfect tea toasting atmosphere?
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