It's all about that Monkey! Ethen is in love with Curious George. Around Halloween, he discovered the cute, fury monkey and 5 months later he still can't get enough. He will sit and watch it all day long. So it was no surprise when he said he wanted a Curious George birthday party. His last two birthdays where quite elaborate and a lot of work to put together. But I love spending time making my own decorations and games. It keeps me busy and allows me to have a creative outlet. But this year I decided to go simple. No big ta-due and kept it a family celebration.
I expected to find a lot of ideas on this theme, but it was not as popular as I thought it would have been. This theme was used mostly for first birthdays. Not quite the age group I was going for.
I loved the red and yellow color scheme and just went off that.
I printed off coloring pages for the kids to color and hung those up. Made a plain yellow, red, and brown birthday banner. We had a ton of red balloons that we later played a game with a popped them. The one pintrest decor idea that I really liked was the man with the yellow hat, using plates and cups.
Ethen is such a picky eater. I was not sure what we would have for his birthday dinner. But he has just started liking pizza recently. And we all love pizza . He also wanted cupcakes and ice cream too. I made these awesome monkey cupcakes that were so incredible easy to do. They look so cute. Chocolate chips and Nilla Wafers.
I have been looking for an excuse to try my hand at cake pops. They look really good and quite simple to achieve. Or so I thought. I had everything I needed, except for the stupid sticks. My pops became cake squares instead. The whole process is a little more time consuming than I like. And it really becomes quite messy and frustrating without the use of sticks. My kids loved them despite the novice look. They did taste good, but man it's too much sugar even for me and I have a sweet tooth.
Here is the whole ensemble.
It ended up just being the kids and I. Scott had to work a late shift at the hospital, but we did have a neighbor girl invite herself in to take part in our games, opening presents, and finishing off most of the desserts.
Ethen picked out his birthday present from Scott and I a few days prior. A Nerf gun with 10 Styrofoam bullets. Everyday was battle to not give into his fits about having the gun NOW. He promised he would wait. I got so tired of trying to explain he couldn't have the gun until his birthday.
And waiting all day before opening the package from nana and papa was hard too.
Curious George book, pillow and PJ's.
The pj's are way too cool. He wears them every night.
Some good friends gave Ethen a Geotrax train set that there boys had grown out of. Every time Ethen goes to their house to play this is what he loves to play with. He loves it. We have been playing with this for hours.
Happy birthday Ethen, your're finally four. Your growing up so fast and keeping me on my toes.
I love you way too much!
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