Sammy's Birthday Sleepover

Friday night we had a sleepover for Sammy's birthday at which the number of girls in attendance equalled the US deficit. Well, ok, not really--but the screaming did sound like we had trillions of girls here instead of just 9. We had a pinata and Sam and Jordan's very adorable Unitarian friend came to me to so earnestly share with me that an injustice had been perpetrated--not everyone got to hit the pinata!!!. To which I just had to reply, well, that's part of the pinata experience. Go get some candy! I think Sammy had a good time, so that was the main thing. I think Jordan and the guests did, too, so that was good, too. And they pretty much left Claudia alone so Claudia was a happy camper. They all seem to be very nice friends. There was some mild trouble with one because she's pretty hyper but she's a nice kid. They stayed up until 3 or 4 or 5, depending on which girl you asked.

Here's some of the food. Sammy picked out kabobs--fruit and chicken nugget--and lime sherbet punch. Not pictured: The requisite cheese pizza and potato chips.


The lame-looking cake that was only ordered several hours before the party, which I feel *bad* about and that I had to sort of bully the cake person into picking out the cake and writing on it for me. Guess what? No you *don't* need 24 hours notice on a cake! So annoying. But hey! Disappointing results, anyway!


Here's Sammy getting ready to blow out the candles. Isn't she adorable?!?!!


This is Sammy attempting to open gifts. She started out on the couch with just Jordan, who was writing everything down for her so she could do thankyou notes) and then it devolved into this. And then Sammy tried to move off the couch and away from everyone and they followed her.


Here are the treat "bags". They decorated flower pots and made shrinky dinks.