Leilani's 7th Birthday Party

Leilani celebrated her 7th birthday with a few friends from school. It was a fun day and it was nice to see Leilani so happy to have her school friends over for a party. It's also nice to get to know some of her friends a little better. You learn all sorts of things by watching how kids interact with each other.

We played musical chairs, the newspaper game, pass the parcel and had a treasure hunt. We also went down stairs and did some paper craft. Everyone made a tissue-paper flower and they all seemed to really enjoy doing that. We then opened presents and ate lots of yummy food. 2 hours goes really quickly and we had to keep things moving along so we didn't run out of time. 

Aunty Elle came up and helped me keep everyone under control, which I was grateful for. Emily joined in and had fun being the little sister and Chiara was super, as always and slept the whole time!!

{Look how little our Lani is!!!}

 {Making tissue-paper flowers}

{Treasure hunt with cryptic clues!}

{All the girls were so happy with their mini pillow pets}

{Emily with her treasure hunt goodies}

{Leilani was soooooo slow opening up her presents - she read every card and looked at each present with great detail!}

{Sophie, Estelle, Amilia, Leilani, Chloe, Poppy & Annabel}

{Party Food}

{Echina Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Cake}

*A word on Ice Cream Cakes: It's best to only have an ice cream cake if you have a big deep freezer! It was pretty hard decorating it quickly (before it melted) and then trying to fit it in the bottom of the fridge/freezer!) If I had a nice deep freezer, it would have been super easy!!!!