A Very Meowy Birthday

If you read my last post, you know that we had a party for Punkin's kitty yesterday. If you didn't read my last post, you unloyal slacker well, I had a party for Punkin's kitty yesterday. It went well, even if it didn't turn out quite like I had hoped.

So let me elaborate a bit. Punkin wanted to have a party for "his cat" Theo. Of course, I was in. School was out Friday so we decided to have it then. I invited nine kids from his MDO class. I had one RSVP, at 9pm the day before the party. Luckily, the little girl who was invited was to be with a sitter that day and the sitter also brought her little girl. So Punkin had two girls for the day. I'll just go ahead and say "Cool!" for him.

We went to his favorite store, The Dollar Tree, and he picked out a table cloth, plates, napkins, and cutlery. All matching, of course. I'm not raising a neandertal here, folks! We even got a coordinating balloon to tie to the mailbox! I already had a cat cake pan so I made the cake. Wanna see?

Here it is before it was decoratedI have only made a few cakes since taking those decorating classes (which I royally sucked at) so I wasn't sure how well it was going to turn out. But really? It was just stars so I figured even a dufus (dufus here!) could do it. I was just really happy that the cake came out of the pan whole, without sticking at all. At that point I already felt successful.

Here is the finished productI was very pleased with how it turned out. The eyes were a little iffy at first, but in the end I think they came out alright. But the purple, while my favorite color and while totally matching the forks exactly, was a bit yucky. You know how they say red food color used in large quantities will have a funny taste? So. Does. Purple.

(We ate a little of the purple, but later that afternoon I scraped off the purple and put on the extra yellow which I had saved - what person would throw away perfectly good icing that they could sit on the couch and eat with a spoon possibly use for something later?)

Anyway, Friday morning came and it was party time. His friends came and they had a ball. The little girl M is kind of like Punkin, usually the Alpha in the pack, so I was a bit worried as to how it would go, but they did great. Had a great time. The mom and I sat and chatted and had as good of a time as did the kids. Hell, they ended up staying from about 9:30 until after 1pm.

As usual I forgot about the camera, but did get a pic of them blowing out the candles. We did a candle for each kid and let them blow them out, since Theo might get fur on the cake if he tried. All in all, a successful party and the ones who didn't make it? Totally their loss. Punkin didn't ask where any of them were, just enjoyed M and A and was happy with what he had. I really need to work on being that same way as I wanted to go out and rip all of the parents who stood up my Punkin a new asshole.

Of course I was up to 3am the night before and was wiped out when they left. Punkin and I sat down on the couch and I offfered to nap with him. Of course he said he wasn't tired, but was sleeping with in five minutes. I tried, but just couldn't doze off.

Seis brought his Best Buddy and his Great Buddy (here after know as BB and GB) over to play that afternoon and they had dinner and leftover cake with us that evening. By the end of the dayPunkin was totally wiped out and must have been sleeping before I even had his door closed. I must admit that I was also sleeping shortly after that.

I'm beginning to buy into this whole keeping your house clean thing because it sure is hard staying up until 3am then getting up at 6am to get ready for guests to arrive. And doing that twice in the same week? Verrrrrrry hard. Of course I've always bought into the cleaning regularly plan, I just fail miserably at it's execution.

I guess that I just still am - as always - a work in progress!