All In A Mom’s Day

I love planning birthday parties. My 6 year old loves it too. We choose a theme and then work on it for months coming up with ideas and buying things for the party. She is a very good decision maker. She makes a decision and then sticks with it. I’m learning that life isn’t always that perfect. My 2 year old daughter loves Dora. She wants Dora everything – the other day she told me when she grows up she wants a Dora bra – I wonder what she will say when I bring them up on our first bra shopping trip!! Anyway, planning parties for twins is a little bit trickier when you’re doing a theme. My 2 year old son likes Diego. I thought it was perfect – we would have a Dora and Diego fiesta. Then my son started changing his mind and saying he wanted all these other character – all of which he likes. I figured since he wasn’t really set on one thing and he likes all of the characters about the same we would stick with Dora and Diego. Maybe not! Now all of a sudden he keeps saying he wants a Lightning McQueen party. Unlike before, now it is consistently Lightning McQueen. I figured that’s okay, I can work with this. Instead of a Fiesta we will have Dora’s Adventure to Radiator Springs. I like to go all out for their parties because it’s fun and I like to spread the cost out so I buy things as I see them. That may not work out in this case. Today my 2 year old daughter was in my closet and saw a Cinderella game that we’re giving as a gift to one of her friends. I told her that Mary is having a Cinderella party. That was a mistake – then she told me, I want a Cinderella party. I said, “What about Dora, don’t you want Dora?” No, she tells me, I want Cinderella. I already bought the Dora piñata and when I told her that she easily switched back to Dora but I can tell this just isn’t going to be as easy as it is with their older sister.

Do you like planning birthday parties? Do you have any great ideas? So far the party themes we have had are: Teddy Bear, Sesame Street, Blue’s Clues, Care Bears, My Little Pony, Mermaidia, Winnie the Pooh and The Wiggles. I had a lot of fun planning each one. A great place to get ideas for your birthday parties is http://www.birthdaypartyideas.com/. I’m thinking about devoting a part of my web site to party ideas too. Let me know what you think or if you have any ideas you would like to contribute.

Have a great day!