Connor's 3rd Birthday Party

   On Saturday we celebrated Connor's 3rd birthday! We had to celebrate it a couple weeks early because unfortunately Aaron's going to miss his real birthday. I can't believe my baby is almost three {tear}! He has grown so quickly! So many people tell me he already looks like a four year old. 

 Showing us how old he {almost} is.

    Most of our good friends have moved back to the states, so we had a very small party. And by very small, I mean he only had his best friend Holden come, and our friends Kelsey, Morgan, and Levi. He's little, so he didn't mind that there weren't a lot of people here. 

    For the theme I chose dinosaurs. All his parties have had a theme, and this year he is really into dinosaurs, so it was easy to choose. I ordered him some dinosaurs, but they didn't all come in on time so my friend Kelsey let me use her little boys. For favors, I bought dinosaurs in a tube and made dinosaur tails for the boys to wear. I followed this tutorial from Running with Scissors. It was really easy to follow, but I am happy I only had to make two. If more kids were invited to the party I probably would have just ordered some from Etsy.

I made these party hats for them to wear out of construction paper and wool balls.

Top left: Dinosaur feet leading to our house. Bottom left: Party favors. Right: Terrarium I made for the kids table.

    I'm not going to lie. I wasn't as prepared for this party as I have been for the last two. Probably because I knew it was going to be small. I had all intentions to make labels for the dino food I served, but never did.

Carnivore food: T. Rex burgers

Herbivore food: Veggie plate with cucumbers, carrots, red peppers, and celery with ranch dip.

Dinosaur bones: Pretzel sticks with hummus

Dinosaur scales: Potato chips

Dinosaur claws: Bugles

Dinosaur eggs: Grapes and beans {not together}

Dinosaur bowties: Cold pasta salad

Dinosaur cupcakes

Dirt cups: Pudding with crushed up oreos and dinos on top

   I didn't plan any games, but the boys had fun running around with their tails on, playing outside while riding their scooters, and hatching dinosaur eggs {frozen eggs with plastic dinosaurs inside}.

    After the boys played outside for a little while, we came inside to open presents. Connor loved all his gifts and wanted to play with everything!

Aunt Kelsey, Uncle Matt, and Holden got Connor a superhero cape and hat. It hasn't come in the mail yet, but trust me there will be many pictures of him wearing it when it does!

We got Connor wooden Animalz dinosaurs, clothes, and a Noah's Ark book.

Aunt Morgan got him a shark slip n slide.

My parents ordered Connor a blue bicycle. He asks them for one every time he talks to them, so now he has one!

Uncle Levi picked out his own gift for Connor: an automatic Nerf gun. {Thanks Levi, payback is coming one of these days!}

   The boys couldn't wait to play with the gun.

Dodging bullets.

He looks fierce.

Aaron teaching Connor how to ride his bicycle.

    It started to get warm outside and our lunch finally settled, so we came inside for cake and sang Happy Birthday to Connor. He loves singing that song, but he loved having it sung to him even more. He just looked around at each person as we sang to him.

    After eating a couple cupcakes, Connor really wanted to play with his slip n slide. We went ahead and let him and Holden play while we added warm water from inside to it. They had a blast!

Thank you Holden, Kelsey, Morgan, and Levi for celebrating Connor's birthday with us. Y'all made it so special!

XOXO,

Jenn