Happy 3rd Birthday Carson!

Happy 3rd birthday Carson!!!! For a month Carson has talked about having his birthday party. I would catch him singing happy birthday to his self and would ask everyday when his toy story party would happen. Finally the day had come!!! He was so excited. We had a extended family party for him on Saturday. I made a cake the night before that looked like Andy's bed with Woody, Buzz and Jessie laying on a pillow. I used a rice krispy treat as the pillow and covered it with frosting. I wanted to have a head board and foot board and tried making them out of gingerbread. I drew a template and traced and cut them out on the dough. When I took them out of the oven it was one big blob! I was so mad!! So I had to improvise and cut the head board and foot board out of thick paper. It work out just fine. When Carson woke up Saturday morning I showed him his cake that was in the fridge. He freaked out! I have never heard him stumble over his words so bad before. He had so much going through his head that what he was trying to say couldn't come out fast enough. He opened the fridge to look at his cake all morning till his party. It's a good thing I had the party start at 11:00 in the morning! It was hard trying to come up with things for a party they made nothing for, so I had to get creative. I had the kids make galaxies to go with Buzz. I had the kids put half water and half oil in a water bottle with some food coloring and small star confetti. When the shook them up, the oil wouldn't mix with the water. They loved it! Another game we played was pin the star (badge) on woody's shirt. Of course I had to make this up myself. I printed off a picture of Woody from a website that had coloring pages. I took the image over to yes printing and had them blow it up 200% Then I colored it and had the kids "pin" the badge on Woody. And what would a toy story party be with out a Woody pinata!? I found this guy at zurchers. It was the LAST one! I was so happy to find it. I bought it about two weeks before Carson's birthday and it was so hard to keep him from dragging it around the house lol After the party I handed out goodie bags filled with toy story fruit snacks, army men and slinky dogs! What a fun party! I still can't believe Carson is three!

Carson got a Toy Story scooter from Nana and Nano! He was so excited, as you can tell by the smile on his face!