The Fairy Birthday Tea

This past Saturday Evelyn had her third birthday party! She's very into birthdays and after attending several parties this summer, desperately wanted one for her birthday as well. :) We decided to have it a week early to stay as far away from my due date as possible. While she enjoyed it, I think the attention and energy level was a bit overwhelming for her.
We decided to combine lots of her favorite things - dress up, crafts, and tea - into one party so we had a fairy birthday tea. All the girls came dressed in their favorite fairy (or ballerina or princess) costume then we had wings and they all made wands. The wands, while a great idea in theory, where a little crazy. ;) 10 girls between 2-10 with GLITTER, glitter glue, sequins, glue, etc resulted in glitter and sequins ALL over the house. :p Several moppings and vacuumings later it's getting better, but there are still definite signs of a 3 year old party here. ;) Poor Gracie I think got tapped on the head by a fairy with her wand and after several baths, her head is still quite glittery. ;)
Evelyn was SO excited and woke up that morning saying "I'm all ready for the party!!!" Here she is waiting so patiently for all her friends to arrive. :)

The craft table... Thankful so many parents stayed and helped with craft and crowd control. :) 
Someone was getting sleepy...

I briefly thought about trying to get a picture of all the kids with their costumes and wands, but then thought better of such an attempt. ;) After playing a while they all came back to the kitchen for the tea party!

I think singing and cupcakes were Evie's favorite part...
Got them all out in one breath!

Caroline got hers down in one bite!
 
I think present opening (and there were only 5, so it wasn't tons) was where it became truly too overwhelming. She had LOTS of exuberant help. Yes, Evie is in the middle of this picture. ;)
Half way through the opening Evelyn disappeared. When Nathan found her again she said "Daddy, I'm just a little tired". Then Saturday evening she rediscovered her presents and clearly had no recollection of opening them earlier - haha! She said "MOM! Look at this! And this! Where did these come from???" It was pretty funny, poor girl!
After everyone left we had snuggle recovery time on the couch reading all her new books and wearing he new princess dress.

We can't believe that our little girl is almost 3!!!