We transformed the playroom into a royal dressing room for Alice's birthday party. I covered the love seat with a pink blanket and brought down *all* (and that's a lot!) of Alice's dress up stuff and baby dolls. She helped me arrange everything - hence all the shoes lined up neatly on the left!
We asked each girl to come in their favorite dress-up or party dress. The morning of the party, Alice decided to wear her matching party dress with Kit, her new American Girl doll.
Of course Alice's birthday cake was a princess Cinderella cake. It's hard to see all the details but she LOVED it. She studied the cake book at the bakery and thought about her choices for weeks! 
One of our activities for the party was dancing to the "Bella Dancerella: Disney Princess" DVD. Some of the girls really got into it - but some others ended up sitting on the couch and watching!
We also played "Pass the Crown" a la "Hot Potato." The children loved getting to control when the music started and stopped. We also did a couple of rounds of musical "thrones."
Alice's favorite part of her party was the pinata. You would think it was filled with diamonds! She was obsessed with it and talked about it when the girls first got there. I cut out the bottom and put strings on the flap - but only one had a knot that would pull the bottom of the pinata open. As it turned out, this little girl above was the last one to take a turn (unfortunately Grady didn't get a turn!) and pulled the string to open it up.Alice said that this day was the best day of her life! It certainly was a special day.
