Gretchen's Hello Kitty Party

Gretchen had a Hello Kitty friend birthday party on 9/13. Yes, I'm behind in posting pictures, I know, but here they are.

When the kids got there, we painted their faces to have a yellow nose and whiskers and put a headband with kitty ears and a bow on it. We took everyone's pictures as well. Then they colored Hello Kitty pictures until all the other kids arrived and were painted. No boys were invited to this party because Gretchen didn't think they would like Hello Kitty.

The first game we played was pass the ball of yarn, because we all know how much kitties like yarn. It took the girls one practice round to get it, but after that they had a blast. We played it twice and gave out 2 prizes.

After the yarn, we played pin the bow on Hello Kitty. Yes, I made the poster, but luckily Hello Kitty is a very simple cartoon character, so it didn't have to be that elaborate.

We moved on to the back yard and hit a pinata that was hanging off the railing of the porch. Aaron and Shelby had fun holding the pinata and moving it around to make it harder to hit. Aaron also spent time spraying and killing a boat load of hornets or wasps. The girls weren't able to break open the pinata so we tossed it up to Aaron and he broke it open and dumped the candy all over the grass, and Gretchen's head. The girls gathered it up and put it in their thank-you bags.

We went inside after that and opened presents and ate cake and ice cream. There was still a little time left, so we had the girls play Hullabaloo, which is a game where they follow the directions to jump, walk, wiggle or whatever to various shapes that you place on the floor.

It was a great party and Gretchen had a blast. That's what counts, right?