Eve and I had a great morning. We dropped off Lex and then stopped at the grocery store for a few items. After the grocery store we decided to walk over to iParty to get some ideas for her birthday party. We spent a very long time there :) She played, I browsed, it was relaxed and fun. She tried on ALL of the party hats, and every time I turned around she had an armful of stuff. I let her pick out one thing (a little stuffed Easter bunny) and she kept saying “Bunny wants…” in an effort to get more stuff. She’s definitely a shopper! I ended up buying candy molds to make flower candy covered pretzels. Eve loves chocolate dipped pretzels. We discovered this at a little holiday party at Michelle’s house. I think Eve ate all of the chocolate dipped pretzels that day! When I saw these cute flower molds I thought they would be perfect for her party. Then we walked to CVS to buy some pretzels and check out the new store, but they didn’t have pretzel rods, so we walked back to the grocery store! On the way back to the car we stopped to watch a front loader scooping up snow and dumping it into a dump truck. This was exciting! For Eve, anyway. We stood in the cold drizzle and watched as he filled up the entire dump truck. Eve was sad that I wouldn’t let her walk around to the back of the building to watch him dump it out. Instead, when he drove away, we got in the car and then drove over to where he parked the dump-truck to fill it up again and watched from inside the car. THEN we followed him behind the building (in the car) to watch him dump it. He waved at Eve when we were standing in the parking lot, and I hoped he realized it was us again in the car, otherwise he might have been paranoid about the red car slowly following him around the parking lot :) Then it was time to pick up Lex again! How’s that for a fun morning!
Now the birthday preview… candy dipped pretzels! They are super easy to make and the kids love them!
Simply melt the candy melts (or chocolate) and pour it in. I chose to paint a little pink in first for the centers of the flowers. Let that dry for a few minutes, then pour on the other color.
Fill the mold and lay the pretzel rods in. I used pink and yellow melting candy for these, but next time I think it will be straight chocolate!
A pretty bouquet of goodies.
Lex approves (he is sick and his mouth hurts, so he approved of the flavor, but not the scratchy pretzel)
Eve approves!