M'Lady's Party

My little Lexie is turning 3 in December. She has been wispering in our ears for months now, "today is my birthday". Three seems to be the magical year a child discovers the celebration of birthdays. Particularly their OWN! I wanted this to be a special birthday year for Lexie and decided to throw her a party, but a month early so we didn't interfere with the holidays.

I started one night by making her party invitation. April came over and we made a spiral and cut it out with several little birthday icons to make a mobile.

When I was a little girl about four years of age, I remember my mom throwing me a party and decorating the living room with crepe paper all about the cieling. I thought that was the neatest thing in the whole world and asked for it every year after. I did this same thing for Lexie.


Of course we kept to our family tradition of filling the living room floor with balloons!

The morning of the party, I made the cake Lexie had picked out at the store. Can you guess what she picked? PINK PINK PINK!



She kept a close eye on my preparations and helped clean up behind me.






A little girl turning three gets to have 3 little friends at her birthday party. Maybe when we she is 30 and we are out of residency, we'll throw her a bigger party, but three little friends seemed perfect, and it was!

I hid some notes in some of the balloons. We played a game where we pretended to be a balloon, holding hands in a tight circle, then we blew and blew and blew as we grew and grew and grew until we POPPED! Afterwards we went on a hunt for the ballons with notes in them and had a humorous, good time trying to pop them. Each note had an action that we did, like twirling, touching toes, dancing, or jumping.

We decorated sun visors with craft foam stickers and markers and made bracelets with beads.

Derek made the girls peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in the shape of hearts for lunch. We finished off our party with a scavenger hunt where they filled their little bags with a neclace, slinkie, some candy and fruit snacks, tiara, and bracelet. And of course, she opened presents!






For the rest of the day Lexie talked about "her birthday!" I think she had a wonderful time. I know I did!