Mom Thinks She Bought ‘Bluey’ Birthday Decorations, Then She Looks Closer [Video]

A mom thought she had snagged some bargain birthday decorations for her daughter’s party until she spotted one small problem.

Children’s birthday parties can be expensive. A poll of 404 women who were either pregnant or with at least one child aged up to 5, conducted by the parenting website What to Expect, found parents spend an average of $314 on their child’s birthday party.

Given that kind of outlay, it is understandable that moms and dads would try to ease the financial burden of their little one’s big day. That’s what Cassandra Colley from Ontario, Canada, was trying to do when it came to organizing her 2-year-daughter Maven’s party.

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Maven is a big fan of the Australian animated series Bluey. She is not alone in that respect either. The Hollywood Reporter says that Americans watched an average of 1.19 billion minutes of Bluey every week this year.

That’s probably why Colley was …