Quince Prep and a Birthday Party

July 19^th – Saturday

                A quick amendment from yesterday it was Judith’s birthday, we have been having a hard time nailing down the ending on her name but I think we have it now. ;-)

                The quince madness has official struck again! Yesterday the place was abuzz with activity for next week’s festivities. It is exciting to be a part of all the hustle and bustle to get stuff ready for this milestone. Really the quince is almost as bad as a wedding. I worked on sewing curtains. Arielle worked on perfecting the perfect hairstyle. The girls and Lilia worked on a display board with Leo’s name and a bunch of pictures of her, it is really cute.  These activities took up most the day.

                In the evening Arielle, Maria and I took the younger set of girls to one of the little neighbor girls birthday party. This involved many outfits for the girls as they had to be dressed just right, even though it was a casual event. Humana was all dolled up in a precious pink dress, we borrowed some nice white shoes from the neighbor for her and she was prancing around showing off her outfit.

                When we got there it was similar to most backyard birthdays. The children ran crazy and played in the bounce house. The adults all sat and made polite conversation or stared off into space. They served pineapple soda and I have to say I’m developing a taste for the different pineapple flavored juices and sodas. They also had some type of nut that was soaked in a chili sauce with onions, they were yummy. Since we are on the topic of food I’m just going to tell about all the food but this is not in chronological order. They served these plates that had three tacos on them and they were all bursting with flavor, so good! Plus a cake, with ice cream and cupcakes for the ninos. There was a lot of good food.

                Bunny trail over back to the birthday party. You might remember me commenting on making a lot of glitter letters and shapes for the quince but I wasn’t sure what it spelt. Well I figured it all out last night, they weren’t for the quince they were for this birthday party! It spelled some form of the word “happy” and then the child’s name. It was the child’s name that had me confused because I didn’t realize it was a name and I just could not work the letters into a saying that you would display at a quince. Not to mention I really didn’t think they matched the rest of the decorations we were making.

                The party was Dora themed. The cake and cupcakes were adorable! Then they had a Dora piñata which was about four feet tall! The piñata brought about the normal excitement that you would expect. But when all was said and done, no child was hurt and everyone got at least one piece of candy. There were also goody bags for the children so there was no lack of sugar!

Once again due to the bad state of the SD card I'm waiting to post the pictures. The casing is cracked and I don't think it will survive many more trips back and forth between the laptop and the camera.