And I have a five year old! I can't believe it. Where has the time gone? Yesterday was Jake's 5th birthday party and we celebrated with a science-themed outer space party. On the menu? Cracking open "moon rocks" aka geodes, soda/mento rockets and making tri-color ublick. A lot of my ideas (such as the lab coats and goggles were inspired by this post on an awesome blog called,
http://princessandthefrogblog.blogspot.com/. I absolutely loved the science party they featured and decided to go more in the direction of outer space and rocket ships. Nevertheless, check out their party and then check out mine:
http://princessandthefrogblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/science-party-part-2.html
Here are the highlights from Jake's party...
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| goodie bag |
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| using a hammer and chisel to crack open geodes |
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| madelyn exploding a mento rocket |
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| jumping for joy |
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| stamping planets and looking for astronauts |
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| making "pluto paste" aka slime |
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| looking inside the newly - cracked geodes. all the kids were given labcoats (hanes tshirts) and goggles |
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| my finest culinary creation - man on the moon cake (hand-sculpted fondant astronaut and yellow buttercream cake) |
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goodie bags
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...and grandma & grandpa and everybody who meets you. It was a great birthday party and we're so happy we were a part of it. Your mommy did a great job - we love it all!
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Grandma & Grandpa
You are an amazing young woman and Jake and Madelyn are lucky to have such a special mom. Great blog btw.
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