RJ and Logan Host a Dr. Suess Playdate

I have always loved Dr. Suess.  In fact, many of the Dr. Suess books gracing the kids' bookshelves are mine, and I plan on keeping them when they outgrow them.  So when we were hosting our friends Ashlan and Natalie for a drop-off play date, AND we were having a mini celebration for Natalie's first birthday, AND the Lorax movie had just come out, AND it was just Dr. Suess' birthday, it was clear we were having a Dr. Suess themed play date.

We started out by reading "The Lorax", which is one of my absolute favorite Dr. Suess books, then we made our own truffula trees out of yarn, pipe cleaners, and play-doh.  Natalie basically enjoyed playing with a pile of yarn while the bigger kids wound yarn around cardboard squares to make their puff balls (and Logan did a little of each, winding and messing with the yarn).

We also made Lorax Masks with felt, yarn, and glue, but I didn't get a picture of that.  When all the crafts were finished, they had black bean and cheese waffles and fruit for lunch followed by Truffula tree cupcakes.

Here is a better look at the Truffula Tree cupcakes.  They were strawberry cupcakes with lemon buttercream frosting and mint meringue cookies perched on top of vanilla pirouette cookies.  And while the mix of flavors might seem a bit much to mix together, it was a very complimentary palette of flavors.  My only regret was that I should've made the meringue cookies yellow instead of green.  I fixed that in the second batch (which the kids are eating in the picture - the playdate was postponed a week due to the girls having a stomach virus, so we had a week of Lorax cupcakes before I made them again for the playdate).

In any case, the playdate was a lot of fun and I now know that I can totally handle (and have fun with) a morning full of 4 kids at ages 1, 2, 3.9, and 4.75 years!

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