February 21, 2008
Clifford in Ill-Repute?
Gid has requested Clifford for his fifth birthday party. I've ordered a dog-shaped cake pan that should look sufficiently Cliffordish when red and figured it would be an easy no-brainer to order Clifford plates, napkins, etc online. Apparently not so much. I can get my hands on Clifford mylar balloons, Clifford stickers and a twenty dollar Clifford pinata, but apparently everything else Clifford is unavailable. That's right. Do the search yourself. Oh, the sites look promising but once you click on the item they're all sold out, out of stock or discontinued. Oh well. We'll order a mylar balloon, hope my cake turns out okay, consider taking out a loan for the pinata and go with red and yellow for the balloons, streamers, table cover, plates, napkins, cups and hats. Oh the hats are what Gid really wanted! Maybe if sickness here subsides and energies rise I'll make some cool Clifford stuff before the end of April. For now I need to call a few people to see if they can come over in a couple days for Phin's party. . . Poor neglected third child.
You'd think being #3 yourself you'd want to make it up to poor Phin somehow....'Course YOU turned out pretty great so he will too. At his age folks showing up and him getting to eat cake are pretty exciting ~ no matter if there's a 'party theme' or not.
As to the Clifford pinata ~ I'm not so sure you want your boys beating Clifford til his guts spill out....maybe something like a pinata ball or something would work better anyway. Gideon could help make one himself (with his mom's help).
I'll keep a lookout for Clifford stuff at If It's Paper and a couple of other places, if I can find anything there should be time to mail it.
Posted by: Mom at February 22, 2008 08:14 AMWell, unlike last year when we completely forgot Phin's birthday until the day of, I've been aware it's coming. What with Andy and Gid so sick for the past week and a half I wasn't going to invite a bunch of folks over only to have to call them at the last minute and tell them it's postponed.
And the Clifford pinata is a pull string, not a beater. And it only has a picture of Clifford on it - it's not actually the dog you're pulling apart. I saw a really cool Clifford shaped beat-it pinata but of course it was out of stock.
Posted by: lynnp at February 22, 2008 11:31 AMYeah, um, sorry about that.... we were having a party.
Posted by: K at February 22, 2008 11:59 AMSo what does Phin want for his birthday -- or want do you want Phin to have for his birthday - or what is going to be a surpise for everyone! This is the last 3 hours to get your request in!
--Papa
Karen, I thought Tim had moved on to an Elmo obsession.
Papa, I thought Andy'd talked to you. . . I guess he won't be getting that pony after all.
Posted by: lynnp at February 24, 2008 04:53 PMI might not be looking at exactly what you want but when I put some of the Clifford stuff in my basket on this site http://www.petpartyware.com/clifford.html it looked like it was available. I look forward to when Jack and Ian request certain things. It's so much fun to see their personalities and individual preferences coming out more and more.
Posted by: Gypsy at February 25, 2008 12:50 PMThanks, Gypsy! They didn't have about half the stuff, but they did have the hats and table cover which will make a huge difference.
Posted by: lynnp at February 25, 2008 10:35 PM