Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Since we normally get together with friends for "Preschool" on Tuesdays, today seemed like the perfect day to have a Cinco de Mayo fiesta. So after piano lessons and storytime at the library, we headed home for some south of the border fun. Kid friendly mexican food meant nachos were on the menu. Here are Jared and Connor. The girls wanted to wear their Mexico dresses so Jared decided to get dressed up too. He enjoys any excuse for a costume.

Krystal, Delaney, Cailin, and Clarissa eagerly await the yummy lunch.

Once everyone had their fill of nachos, they colored bags for their pinata candy while I read them some spanish stories. Here's Krystal in her pretty Mexico dress.

Jared made this sun pinata. The girls and I helped with the paper mache, but he did the decorating himself.

Amber up to bat. Krystal giving it a hit. I was so busy taking pictures of the kids that I forgot to put the blindfold on, which was fine with the younger kids until Clarissa came up and whacked the pinata so hard that it fell off the hook. Oh well, they all enjoyed the candy and prizes in the end.

Here are Clarissa and Cailin making their maracas out of toilet paper rolls, tissue paper, beans and rice.

While the boys were running around, we took a picture of the girls with their dresses and maracas.

This is the dress that we bought for Clarissa when she was a baby the first time we went to Mexico. It's been through all three of the girls and this is probably it's last fiesta. Amber wears it well.

We finished our party with Tres Leches cake, it was muy bueno!