Just a quick report on Nimue's birthday party over the weekend -- she had seven friends over for a couple of hours of afternoon backyard fun. We started them out making origami cats and decorating goody bags with ribbon, fabric glue and fabric markers until everyone had arrived. This was followed by several old-fashioned party games from my youth: Hot Potato, and egg and spoon relay race, and Pin the Eyes on the Kitty (no, not on the real cat...). 
Kids still enjoy these, hokey as they may seem. For that matter, it seemed that Chad enjoyed helping -- the picture shows him operating the hot potato music (from a Serbian trumpet festival) but he also was highly involved in the rest of the activities. After the games, the kids got to whack the pinata, which for all that it was homemade, worked remarkably well. Everyone got one turn blindfolded, and one turn without the blindfold, and the whole thing finally came down on Nim's third turn, raining saltwater taffy everywhere as the first-grade piranhas moved in to gobble it.
The "Three-Layer Chocolate Cake with Raspberry Filling and Strawberry Frosting" that Nimue requested followed, and the kids then finished up by helping Nim open her presents and play with them.
Note to self: Next time one wings strawberry buttercream without a recipe, use slightly more butter than strawberry puree rather than a straight 1:1 ratio (frosting still very gooey when the "Can't bear to add any more sugar" point was reached).
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