Hau'oli Pakoa

Happy Easter or Hau'oli Pakoa in Hawaiian!!  Just a quick post before I prep for the Easter Bunny here.  It's been a busy weekend and of course I had to go last minute to Long's for egg dye.  I got the last box on the shelf!! I also had to buy eggs, which I don't usually do because we have two hens in our backyard who provide us with fresh eggs daily.

Martha and Abigail

However this was also a birthday weekend!!  Hau'oli la hanau to my youngest daughter Milla who turns 8 on Tuesday!!

  Which brings me to the purpose of this post.  I am linking up with

Mrs. Miner's Kindergarten Monkey Business birthday linky.

She wants to know how everyone celebrates birthdays in their class.

I keep it pretty simple, but the kids love it.

On their desk I place the Birthday Bouquet.

These are fake flowers I received from a student one year.  They are so pretty and look so real

everyone always compliments me on them! I place them on the student's desk with a birthday pencil,

some stickers (whatever I happen to have), and a No Homework coupon that they can use

whenever they want.  We then all sing Happy Birthday to start off the special day.

At home I keep it pretty simple too.  No more huge birthday parties for us.

Here in Hawaii it is customary to have a Baby Luau when your child turns 1.

You invite everyone you know and celebrate all day.  When my second daughter turned 1 we

 had it all ... a jumper, catered food, outdoor tents, music, etc... 

The last baby luau I attended hired a hula troop, a clown,

a professional photographer and even had a fire dancer!!

Now that my girls are older I let them invite two friends and choose an activity they would like to do.

This year both my daughters chose to have a slumber party.

We made pizza and had ice cream sundaes.

Sometimes less is more!!