One Wicked Party

Wicked as in "cool", of course!

After taking Madi to see Wicked last November, she decided that she wanted her 5 year old party to be "Wicked" themed. Sounded good to me!

First off, a Wicked party had to start out with a room for Glinda and Elphaba. So, we transformed Madi's room. First, a closet...

and then their beds.

The kids had fun dressing up like the characters. Here's Elphaba, Glinda, and... a flying monkey?
We also had a table for Elphaba - a place for her to write on the witch hat notepads with the broom pens that said "Defy Gravity".
And a table for Glinda - with lots of pink and glittery stuff to make wands.
I hate that the only picture I got of the cake had junk in the background. But you can get the idea - Glinda, Elphaba, yellow brick road, and the Emerald City.

The birthday girl blowing out her candles

The girls got to decorate their cupcakes with pink and green icing and sprinkles. Madi's had to be exactly half and half. :)

The sprinkles got a bit out of hand after a while!

After cake, Madi got to open her presents. You know, because we needed a few more girly toys around this house.
And then we went for a swim. See that blue water? Yeah, it was supposed to be green. I bought the tub tablets to make the water green in keeping with the Wicked theme. Didn't exactly work out. Oh well, the girls didn't seem to care!
Did I mention this wicked cool party was also a sleepover?! Madi invited 11 girls to her party. I figured quite a few of them (given their age) wouldn't opt to sleep away from home. Apparently Madi has some brave friends though - 10 of the 11 chose to sleep over! The more, the merrier!!
They actually did amazingly well and no phone calls had to be made home in the middle of the night. It was almost 11:30 before the last girl feel asleep, but whatever! You can see the shape they were in at 7:00 the next morning...
I won't post a picture of what shape I was in the next morning after "sleeping" in the room with them. Apparently 30 year olds are too old for sleepovers. Ha! But Madi had a BLAST and was so grateful to all of her friends who made the party so special. Happy Birthday to my sweet girl!