A Very Mickey Birthday

     Rachel's birthday theme this year was, as usual, decided well in advance, due to our plans to go to Disney World for her actual birthday. I thought it would be fun to ramp up excitement by doing a Minnie/ Mickey party before we left. (When we did Laura's party after we got back from Disney for her second birthday it was really anticlimactic and lame. Live and learn.) It was a little more stressful to do the party beforehand, but nice to get it out of the way, at the same time. :)

Invites
(the insert read: Yoo Hoo!
Guess who's two!
Calling all mouseketeers!
Party at Rachel's Clubhouse!)

Trivia about Mickey and Minnie was hung on Mickey silhouettes around the room.
The living room decorations loosely resembled a circus tent.

So we loosely went with circus food for lunch: hot dogs & popcorn.
I had to make several concessions due to lack of time/ resources,
but still turned out all right.

place settings (cutlery wrapped inside the bow)

For example, I had intended the cookie pops be standing up,
but they refused to cooperate with my box.
I had also intended to make "Minnie's Bows" our of watermelon, but ran out of time.

Uncooperative, but delicious and cute Mickey cookie pops

I had intended for there to be yellow balloons, too,
but didn't realize I didn't have any until the day of.
The kids didn't seem to mind. ;)

The kids just played in the playroom mostly.
Two year olds aren't really into birthday games,
so I didn't bother planning any.

presents

Cake was a concession, too, and did not turn out at all like I had planned. Sorry Rache.

Rachel tried several times to blow out the sparkler candle, resulting in a big, adorable pout.

Since Rachel really loves colouring, I decided these would make good favours

His and Hers Minnie/ Mickey colouring books + crayon rolls I made

Minnie-style crayon rolls

     Overall, I didn't feel like the party was quite up to my usual standards, but went pretty well. Hopefully the trip to Disney World tomorrow makes up for what the party lacked. ;)

Thanks to everyone who came out! And happy pre-birthday, Baby Girl!