Friend’s birthday party
Saturday afternoon we went to a birthday party of a little girl turning four.
I have never really spent much time in the “girly” aisle’s at Target before and it took me a while to figure out what the heck to get her. I was a little overwhelmed with the creepy eyed dolls, both the people and the animal dolls. I had no idea that “My Little Pony” now came tiny, without the cool hair to brush, and had their own fashion boutique and outfits. I had heard about Polly Pockets online, in parenting forums, but was rather taken aback when my first glance at them was a package of disembodied heads, a bunch of torsos, and legs. It looked like “serial killing for girls” at first glance. I figured out later that it is the new thing…they come apart like that so that you just put them together like that to make new outfit combinations instead of having to dress them. Not all of the Pollys look like they have been hacked up into fashionable little pieces.
I ended up getting Zora a little Polly Pocket Stackable playset. They only had two there…a bathroom and a bbq on the deck set. I ended up getting the bathroom. I was slightly weirded out at getting her a bathroom, but really, it was better than the bbq. I hope to get her a little kitchen and maybe some other rooms too. I am in desperate need of something small that she can play with in the ST waiting rooms. I can’t exactly take those giant Little People playsets or the big wooden dollhouse with me, but she seems to like playsets. I looked for a while in the boys stuff to see if there was a cool hot wheels car playset, but they didn’t really have anything and I seriously don’t need another train set in this house so the take-along-Thomas set was out. I was hoping for those cool animal playsets (you know, with real looking animals, not creepy big eyes with blue eyeshadow and wardrobe “pets”) I have seen at Toys R Us, but Target didn’t have anything like that and I didn’t have time to make it to the other place before closing because I had just spent an hour and a half trying to figure out what to get the girls. lol.
Anyway, the party itself was much smaller and less chaotic than her big brother’s parties. We watched her open presents and then ate cake and ice cream. It was nice.
I snapped pictures of her opening the gifts, but the thing that makes this interesting is Zane in the background. Zach, who was next to him, said that he was making up stories and acting them out in the castle. This is something that we almost never see him doing, so it was pretty exciting. (later he had the castle opened up and had knights on horses tromping through)
