Christmas For Valentines Day

I mentioned that I would finally be posting stuff from Christmas at around Valentine's Day and look at this, I am true to my word.

I have 2 very girly girls who like all things pink and what could be more pink than ballet. Combine that with one of the most fabulous productions of The Nutcracker I have ever seen, the San Francisco Ballet's production of The Nutcracker. I saw it on PBS last year and ordered it right then. It was back-ordered and didn't get to me until last March. I was beyond excited to show it to the girls at Christmas. I also thought it would be fun to have the little girls in our neighborhood come over and watch it with us. It was sort of Lauren's Christmas gift to her friends. "Breakfast and Ballet."

Attached to the invitation was some of the music from the Nutcracker so they could listen to it before they came. (Every mom said that their little one had listened to it almost non-stop in anticipation.) The girls were so excited to be coming to a "grown-up" party just for them. I had the girls come dressed in pj's, and I served mini-food. Mini-muffins, mini-doughnuts, mini-scones, etc. and of course chocolate milk. The girls sat at small tables, with small chairs. I hung about 5 dozen sparkly snowflakes from our ceiling, covered the trees with little snowflakes and decorated the tables with snowflake stuff. I used the tulle left over from Noah's beekeeper costume and made all the little girls a hair bow with a little sparkly bead and snowflake. All of this ties into the Waltz of the Snowflakes at the start of the 2nd act of the Nutcracker which is where we started watching it that morning. After we ate, we decorated pictures of a ballerina with stickers, fabric, ribbon etc. It was a HUGE success! I am sooooo good at entertaining 5 year olds! There is a reason I don't entertain grown-ups. I cannot wait to do it again.

After the girls left, Noah and his friend Kamran came down to eat the leftovers, (I should say hoover the the leftovers...boys.) I had them watch some of the 2nd act as they were eating. You could tell that they didn't want to like it. But in the end, I caught them trying to do some of the ballet moves and jumps. So cute.