Inside Out with Johanna

This year Johanna had to wait a few weeks for her birthday party. We held it the weekend after Thanksgiving. Magaly was hosting for her 4 children with Nov/Dec birthdays and we added Johanna in the celebration. She approached me about themes for the party and Johanna said she wanted a "Sadness" party. Magaly was thrilled because Sophia had asked for an Inside Out party. It's a Disney Pixar movie, about the emotions in the head of a 12 year old girl. The movie has 5 emotions as main characters: Sadness (Johanna), Disgust (Sophia), Anger (Martin), Victor (Fear) and Joy (Claudia). It was a perfect fit. 5 birthdays and 5 characters. Hanna had expressed interest in the character when we had gotten a book from the library and discovered that Sadness was her favorite color blue.

Magaly is a master party thrower and puts a lot of effort into building the theme into every aspect of the party. The movie has many parts that are about memories (visualized as round colored spheres that match the characters main color) and Magaly incorporated them as well.  Johanna loved it. We made and brought a string of pennant with all of the characters on it and added it to her people sized posters and crepe paper streamers. She made a dessert for each of her kids to look like their character and all I had to do was bring a "Sadness" cake for Johanna.  Johanna helped me mix and bake the cake and then I did the decoration.

The party was a lot of fun, the food was delicious, the pinata was a hit, she was excited to receive a Sadness doll that says phrases from the Movie and beamed as we all sang "Happy Birthday".  She is trying to memorize them all. Most importantly Johanna had a fantastic time.