Since Hadley’s birthday falls during 3rd quarter closing and I’m an accountant, I kept things simple and elaborate preparations to a minimum. For cake I purchased three dozen mini cupcakes and one regular sized cupcakes from our local cupcakery, The Gourmet Cupcake Shoppe. An edible arrangement for fruit – those things are pricey but soo yummy! Cheese, sausage and crackers plus some other trail mix-ey nibbles and I couldn’t resist some sixlets.
Where I did take some time were these Cheese Mice Appetizers. I thought this might turn out to be one of those Pinterest “nailed it” moments, but I think they turned out really cute! You can see my pin here.
They’re wedges of Laughing Cow cheese with either almond slices or sliced hot dogs for ears, olive noses, green onion tails and caraway seeds for eyes. The eyes were supposed to be black sesame seeds but I couldn’t find those anywhere and I think the caraway seeds were actually a better look and more tasty to boot. I made fifteen of these and they were all snatched up quickly once we began eating.
For activities we covered our breakfast nook table and one wall in a hallway with freezer paper and put out tins of crayons. I don’t have any pictures without child guests, so you’ll just have to use your imagination. It was fun seeing what the kids drew afterwards.
My other grand plan was to play “blind mice” and stick post-it “cheese” onto mice I had drawn on our French doors with window markers. The kids either a) didn’t want to wear the blindfold, or b) they peeked and landed the cheese on the mouse directly. C’est la vie, it was an interesting distraction for oh, about five minutes.
Hadley seemed to thoroughly enjoy herself and wandered around the party visiting guests. She loved opening presents and every gift was her new favorite.
The crackers are so cute. What a fun birthday theme.
Love those crackers.