Last Thursday Caroline’s school had a little mini-fiesta. I am not kidding when I say it was better than the last sixteen parties I’ve attended. Granted, the last sixteen parties I’ve attended have basically just involved large bounce houses where kids jump until they regret their massive intake of icing and Juicy Juice.
However, the mini-fiesta was still impressive because they had a Mariachi Band, chalupas, snow cones and two kegs of Miller Lite.
Oh wait, I just got confused with a party I attended my senior year of college. Obviously the Kindergarten fiesta wouldn’t have chalupas because the refried beans are way too messy.
Anyway, the big moment of the party was when King Antonio showed up with his entourage. Caroline even got to get her picture taken with the king.
Disclaimer: Elmo was not harmed in the making of that hat.
After the king talked to them, the kids spent the next hour expending roughly the same amount of energy it would take to provide a major city with electrical power for a year. Or six.
I was assigned to work the Cascarone-making booth. For those of y’all who may be unfamiliar, a cascarone is a hollowed-out egg filled with confetti for the purpose of being smashed on someone’s head.
Yeah, that’s a good idea. Put those suckers in the hands of some five and six-year-olds and see what happens.
It’s been five days and I’m still finding bits of confetti in my hair.
But it’s a small price to pay for all the pandemonium and free chalupas.
I think.
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So I know I can count on your to make me spit out my morning coffee…..not sure what made it spurt out faster….the Elmo comment….or the keg slip up.
Too funny……
I have to say, from all the fun you share about Caroline’s school….do you think they would mind a 40+ year old new student?
Aw man…and here I thought maybe we’d managed to get rid of that pesky little red menace!
That’s so funny. I had never heard of Cascarone until this Easter when my friend gave me a few for my girls. It took FOREVER to get it out of Laels hair and even though I cleaned the floor I still find pieces. However the fun they had with them was sooooo worth it!
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are you sure they didn’t dye big bird red and then pluck him for the hat making?
and all this time i had just been calling them “confetti filled eggs”…i guess that is what happens when you’re texan, but not living in “fiesta” zone.
thanks for enlightening me, big mama!
You make me laugh!! Love your perspective.
The family we stayed with in SA gave us a dozen of those confetti eggs. I’d never seen them before–they’re awesome!
I would, however, recommend getting them out of girls’ hair BEFORE bath time. It’s impossible when they’re wet.
I didn’t know there was a fancy name for confetti eggs! Now I can sound smart… or something…
I’ve never heard of those confetti eggs before, sounds like fun! (for the kids I mean, I’m not sure about all the picking out of the confetti from the hair for days…) I see Caroline is in pigtails agian! Looking adorable!
Please, please, please don’t show those eggs to my kids. The shredded stuff for Easter baskets drive me nuts.
Too funny!
Boy- Texas seems to be a pretty happening place- shoebox parades, fiestas, baseball games. I’m just not sure I could handle 96 degrees so early- we hit 87 this weekend with just a touch of humidity and I had to convalesce.
Too funny!
When do we get to hear your version of the 1st day Shredding??! Is it wrong to hope others’ are in just as much pain as you are? I sure hope not!
If Thomas the Train were a person, he’d look like King Antonio.
I look forward to checking your page daily! I LOVE your sense of humor!! Keep it coming!
We NEVER had that much fun in kindergarten! It makes me want to go back!
As soon as I saw that photo I thought of The Wiz (Seinfeld, of course.)
“I’m the Wiz!”
(No one beats him.)
CRACKIN ME UP.
I notice Caroline is sporting the cute pigtails again! My daughter is 13 and I haven’t been able to get her to do anything fun with her hair since she was about 6. Imagine my delight when her soccer team was playing in the State cup and she and several of her team mates put in pigtails for the big occasion. Of course I didn’t have my camera with me!!
I see her interest in pig tails has yet to wear off. Excellent!
We buy Cascarones at HEB every year. My kids love them! I never knew what they were called until now.
ok…I have been reading your blog for a few months… I am not from the great state of Texas, but a neighbor to the west..way west, California to be exact. so, my question is this… Who in the ^&*#..heck is king antonio and why do you have a fiesta?? I am so not giving you my name in order to protect the innocent..or shall I say ignorant.. anyway..just asking because I am curious. No need for a history lesson, i guess i will just google this king antonio dude..(oops my california is showing with the dude comment!)
What in the world?!?!?!??!?!?! Was it Mardi Gras in Texas?
By the way, how are you feeling today. I just read Boo Mama’s update about THE SHRED… I’m off to buy the DVD today. I’m motivated, but SCARED!
Do they win prizes for those floats yall have to do? If so, how did you do?
I can’t help but hope that any grown man who is forced to dress like that was WELL PAID.
I wouldn’t be so sad though if it was Elmo on his hat. I’ve listened to and sang “la la la, la la la Elmo’s world” WAY too many times to still find him cute anymore. And what kind of sad world do you live in when all you have to sing about is a goldfish and one crayon?
The keg comment was hilarious! Seriously, I am from VA and I have never heard of King Antonio. My husband and I sometimes talk about moving to Austin. It is so tempting with all the parties and the constant supply of great Mexican food!
I couldn’t help but notice that you got Caroline to wear pig tails again. Way to go!
We lead a sheltered life over here in the East……..
never heard of a cascarone. The only thing we know what to do with eggs here is eat them, or throw them at houses…….
we sure know how to have fun….
I am thinking that you are one happy Mama lately….from the pictures you have been posting it looks like Caroline has started enjoying wearing pig tails and hair bows! And they look SO cute!
Marlyn
So funny, I’m with the others that never heard of the King, and all his fun, until you so kindly shared with us. I thought that was a possible swine flu symptom coming out of his hat!
Oh this cracked me up…both Caroline and “The King” look slightly uncomfortable in that picture. Probably for different reasons.
Oh this cracked me up…both Caroline and “The King” look slightly uncomfortable in that picture. Probably for different reasons.
Oops…forgot to say great post! Looking forward to your next one.
What all encompasses the making of a Chalupa? Sounds delicious. We’re having a Cinco De Mayo party on Saturday — but just having a taco bar, enchiladas and tortilla chips. Oh yah – and a pinata.
The Elmo disclaimer is hilarious! Caroline looks so beautiful in her colorful dress and pigtails — very Fiesta-like!
Sound fun!!!
-FringeGirl
Caccarone’s are definitely a South Texas thing! I grew up in Uvalde, and we did NOT have an Easter without Cascarones…or a 4th of July, or a Christmas, New Year’s Eve or Confederate Hero’s Day. Ok. Maybe not. But I LOVED hearing about cascarones from way up here in the Panhandle where I am definitely an immigrant missing my native roots! Ole!
My inlaws were in San Antonio last week and they talked about all the Fiesta activity they got to be a part of down by the Riverwalk. They are originally from Houston but now live in Chicago and it brought back lots of memories for them.
I’ve told my husband we should go for Fiesta sometime. Just glad we don’t have to make a float!!
Too funny! Love it
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