When I asked Owen what he wanted for his birthday he said, "Candy." And his favorite thing to do right now is play board games. So we celebrated with a Candy Land birthday party.
Here are some pictures of the kids building the Candy Land castle, fishing at Snowflake Lake, eating the licorice forest, moving to music at Lollipop Woods, tossing beanbags at the Gingerbread Tree, and gathering peanuts for Gramma Nut's kitchen.
We also went for a hike in the Gumdrop Mountains (our staircase) while balancing large gumdrops on a spoon. We never got to the finger painting in the Chocolate Swamp. (I ran out of time to make the pudding.) But I can do that later with just Owen.
Anyways, I think the kids had a good time. Owen loved his Candy Land cake, especially the bubble gum castle. Thanks to all who came to celebrate with us. It was fun to spend the day with family. I love you, Owen. Everything about you is my favorite. Happy 3rd birthday!
But the next day he was feeling better, Owen put on his new superhero dress-up (a favorite birthday present) and started jumping off the stairs. He was feeling quite powerful. And, I kept all the Candy Land props in the dramatic play corner of our play room so we can party on.
4 comments:
Happy Birthday, Owen, and congratulations, April!! I am so stinkin' excited for you guys to have a baby girl! (And Angie and Erin are excited for you, too!) Oh, man--so so cool!
Little Owen man,
Happy Birthday from Auntie Em. So sorry you got sick but glad you got better quickly little guy. Wow you are three now!
Those activities sound just so fun, there's nothing more fun then your dramatic play stations. That cake is amazing as usual. Its really fun to see the fam all together enjoying the fun.
To quote a famous little boy on a big wheel "that was totally AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!" (or something to the effect). The games are awesome, the treats are awesome, the kids are awesome, the props are awesome, the cake is AWESOME, the birthday boy is AWESOME, and you, the back-up helping Dad, Merritt is AWESOME and you, my dear April make AWESOME sound like a pale little anemic adjective that doesn't come close to describing your creativity, willingness to take the stress and work of planning on, and then hosting way too many loving fam members after the party when you surely wanted to collapse. thank you for the everything it took to pull this wonderful day off (and I'm so glad to hear Owen is already better)! Love to all . . .
p.s. yes I know you are not Merritt, I decided to insert him in there as I know it's a tremendous help to have a supportive Dad on board for a big event like this, but being too lazy to check it I didn't delete the "and you" clause, believe me I know you are you!
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