Kaia's Bday

 So here is the birthday girl.  Such a big girl now.  You know how kids wake up so quickly?  She was sound asleep this morning and the next minute she was standing up in bed.  She says 'You know mommy, I think I am still 3'.  An experimental test supported her hypothesis.  You see, Pray is 4 and he can reach the light.  So she tried to reach the light and couldn't.  Thus proving she was still 3.

 Last night we blew up the balloons for the party.  70 of them, 30 with sweeties in them.  Rather than putting them up or away we left them on the floor for her to find when she woke up.  Super cute... she walked down the hall this morning, opened up the living room door, saw all the balloons, quickly shut the door, and came running back to bed.  I think for a minute she thought there was a Santa for birthdays, she was so excited and had no idea what to think.  She was also definitely over the 'I am still 3' thing!

 We gave her a couple of books and this princess theater set.   It came with 5 cardboard princess with stands, a stage, a few little storybooks, and tons and tons of outfits to put on them.  I know.  Perfect gift.

Party site pre-mess.  Kaia helped color and decorate the letters.  Because Kaia has been really shy at the last few parties, and I wanted her to have an amazing party, we arranged a few early arrivals so it wouldn't be like her house was invaded by 14 kids at once.  Worked like a charm and by the time a few were there she was in party mode!!

 Here is the food... fruit, veggies, pita, hummus, guacamole, smoky dip, quiche, hot dogs, popcorn, chocolate banana bread, peanut butter brownies, and snickerdoodles.  The kitchen is still cooling down.  Yummmmm!!

 Here is Big Theo and Little Theo.  Can you tell that Little Theo gets more than just his name from Big Theo?  Almost all his clothes are Theo-me-downs and it totally shows.

 Lots of games.  Carl did that.  Huge props to Carl because he did an awesome job!!!  Here is the balloon pop.  There are sweeties in each one and the kids have to pop them to get them.  To get a candy even I tried... but popping a balloon is scary!!  I had to leave that to the kid-experts.

 Here is the obstacle course.  In the theme of Dora they have to go 

Under the wobbly chair, 

Backwards through the big tall grass,

Push the truck of teddies to safety in the garden bed, 

And around the back of the house to...

Get back to the wobbly chair :)

Kids will do anything if you ask in an enthusiastic voice!!

Theo wanted to play too but had no idea what to do so he started crawling excitedly around where everyone was pushing trucks of teddies.

And of course the cake.  Dora held 4 relighting sparkler candles in her hand. In the end we had to enlist the help of everyone to blow them out.  Happy Birthday Kaia!!!