Caleb's 3rd Birthday Party

The party plan went into action at around 1:30. This picture is Caleb as he's walking out the door to go to Mrs. Amy's (who he currently has a crush on).

We (me and Marsha, a very loving friend who brought her mini van over to help transport party supplies) got to the party room around 2:30 (it took so long because I misplaced the key to the party room....I was going crazy!) We had only 30 minutes to get everything ready before guests arrived. Needless to say, we were sweating to some Thomas music and getting down to business. Thanks Marsha..

3:00pm

The room looked AWESOME once we got everything up. There were balloons EVERYWHERE! Caleb arrived at the party alittle later than everyone else did so when he walked into the room everyone shouted, "surprise!" and then started singing Happy Birthday. I couldn't believe how wonderful it had all come together. I looked behind me as everyone was singing and all I could think about was how special the moment was and how lucky Caleb was to have so many people there to celebrate him. Of course, Caleb didn't see it that way at first. Actually, he was a bit overwhelmed and fell to the floor to hide. Little Synclair (his little girlfriend) came over to help him up. It didn't take long for Caleb to warm up to all the fun.

Our first activity was a train hunt. There were 40 trains laying out and about the room and the kids were given brown paper bags to collect as many trains as they could...kinda like an easter egg hunt.

Caleb only found three trains, but he was happy with that. His little friend, Alex found 12 trains and won the prize.

Our next activity was pin the number one (because Thomas is train #1) on Thomas. The kids liked this game, but it was a bit too easy to peek through the eye mask so most of the kids kinda cheated on this game....no prize was given out because EVERYONE won. And then it was time for PIZZA!

And then presents...

He loves the music cards, hence why he's reading this one....

Riley had some fun too, until he passed out asleep and Marsha took him upstairs to her apartment.

All the kids LOVED the bounce house! I was a bit worried about taking it only because I wondered if it would withstand all the abuse from so many kids at once. The directions suggest a limit of three kids at one time, but it took all the abuse very well. So if anyone is looking to buy a bounce house, Little Tykes is an awesome purchase for only $200.00.

And then it was Pinata time! Liz was brave enough to hold out the pinata for the kids to swing at. The only incident that we had was John smacked himself in the leg with the stick. We actually had to pull the strings for it to open.

Caleb got two pieces of candy and was completely content!

This year, Caleb sang "Happy Birthday" along with everyone else and blew out the candles with no prompting. It's amazing to see how much they learn in a year.

Once the candles were blown out, Caleb picked up the train that was on the cake and trudged it through the tracks (which were just icing). It was too cute!

The icing on the cake was SO GOOD, but it left your mouth alittle "thomas blue"...(thanks Amy for taking such a great picture of me)

5:30pm

The best part of the party was the bounce house. We literally had to deflate the house in order to get the kids to leave. And I just want to say, that I did barely any clean up because all my ladies did such a wonderful job of doing it for me. Thank you so much for all your help!

Later that night, the boys had all the new toys spread out all over the floor playing until it was time for bed. It was an awesome day.