Daughter #2's 4th Birthday: Max and Ruby Style

For wonderful Daughter #2 - who is special and wonderful and totally has my heart.

Since Daughter #2 is the middle child, she often feels the crunch of being squeezed in between adorable baby brother and bossy older sister. As her mother, I feel her drive to be noticed and accepted for who she is as the middle child. She wavers between trying to catch up to older sister or trying to be baby like her brother. My heart goes out to her often, and so for her birthdays I try to take extra care and help her get the birthday that she wants.

Which means we have a lot of conversations. Daughter #2 is well aware that mommy does birthdays at home and she loves that. I let her choose her theme as well - last year, her theme was quite an interesting one that she came up with all on her own - Yellow. Her Yellow Birthday Party was really fun for me to plan in terms of food, games and decoration and we had a fun time doing it. This year she decided on a Max and Ruby theme, and gave me some specific demands - like cupcakes and lemonade (since Max and Ruby like lemonade).

I ended up with the following menu - which I REALLY liked, because everything was prepared the night before, and the only thing I had to do the day of was chop fruit for the fruit salad and make the vegetable mosaic. I tried to make things kid friendly and also tried to make sure that there were lots of vegetables (since it is a Max and Ruby bunny party) and also enough delicious food for adults to enjoy
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Max and Ruby Birthday Party Menu

Spinach Dip and vegetable mosaic (dip prepared the night before, veggie mosaic done the day of)
Curried Chicken Salad (prepared the night before)
Asparagus, Ham, Havarti, Egg Bake (prepared the night before)
Mac and Cheese (prepared the night before - if you do this be prepared to add an additional 20 minutes of baking time as it will be cold)
Carrot Cupcakes - done mini size, as kids can't eat a whole cupcake anyways
Crispy Chewy Oatmeal Toffee Cookies
Fruit Salad - mangoes, pineapple, blueberries, strawberries
Bagels, crackers, bread
Lemonade

Vegetable Mosaic with Spinach Dip - put this together in less than 20 minutes


Mini Carrot Cupcakes with toppers


The full spread...dig in

Many people have asked me how to make the pink pompom - link to Martha Stewart

And I also found a great resource for beautiful colors of tissue paper at Nashville Wraps

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