This girl is funny...
she laughs a lot,
she cries a lot,
she's learned how to pout really well,
she sings like crazy while she's sitting on the toilet,
she's still SUPER loud,
she LOVES buttered noodles, actually, she loves buttered anything,
she tells the most random stories in great detail,
she can hardly walk around the neighborhood without help,
she can hardly play by herself for two minutes without begging me or Ryan to play with her,
and she can't sit on the couch or near anyone without needing to snuggle up right next to them... she must always be snuggling!!!
I'm so excited because I think she will be a plethora of information when she gets home from kindergarten every day, if she can stay awake long enough to tell me about her day!
Several months ago, we went through a Jake and the Never Land Pirates kick at our house. All the kids like Jake, but Hudson was enamored with the cartoon. I thought out loud, "oh, this would be a super fun third birthday party idea for Hudson in January."Well, Kendall must have heard my thoughts and decided she wanted a Jake party. So, that's what we did.
The invitation... which I ended up just emailing to her friends rather than mailing them to their houses in case they were out-of-town...
Buried treasure before the kids arrived...
Buccaneer Boot Camp. We trained the kids on this obstacle course to become real pirates. They had to hop through "Leap Pad Pond," crawl through the "Puny Pirate Crawl," "Walk the Plank" without getting attacked by "Tic Tock Croc,"fight their way through "Tree Snake Forest," and then finally climb up and slide down "Slip and Slide Mountain."
"Leap Pad Pond" is in the background...
"Puny Pirate Crawl"...
"Walk the Plank" with Tic Tock Crock...
"Tree Snake Forest"...
Jumping off the plank with her girlfriends Gillian, Lisey, Olivia and Brooklyn...
Olivia, Kendall, Gillian, and Lisey...
My two big girl helpers Ella and Kambree...
And away they go...
"Slip and Slide Mountain"...
Running through the sprinklers...
Henry almost go eaten by Tic Tock Croc. Look at him jump!...
After the obstacle course, the kids got their treasure maps and away they went on a treasure hunt around our yard...
My super fancy, high-class, homemade treasure map...
Looks like Hudson knows where he's going, or is he following James?...
Looks like James needs some help from Sugar...
At every red "X" on their map they found treasure... The "Swaying Grass Sisters" had goodie bags, The "Pixie Dust Tree" had pixie dust (Mike and Ikes in pixie dust bags), "Raging River Pass" had a pirate ship craft kit, "Mini Mount Everest" had mini telescopes, and the "Swinging Sword Tree" had pirate swords. Once they got their swords, they had to cut through the streamers to get to the last stop on their map, which was on our back porch for lunch at the "Coconut Cafe"...
Most of the yellow streamers (pixie dust) hanging from the trees blew away by the time the party started...
Edmund, Brooklyn, and Lisey running up Mini Mount Everest to the Swinging Sword Tree...
Using their swords to "cut" through the streamers to get to Coconut Cafe...
Digging for buried treasure in the sand...
Hudson dug up a pirate eye patch...
Sword fighting...
Henry and Edmund used their swords on the Tree Snakes...
What would I have done without Sugar and Jim's help! Sugar had all the food ready to go when the kids arrived. Jim, of course, took all of these pictures!...
The Birthday Girl headed straight for the Pirate Booty...
James, and the rest of the kids, were more interested in the pirate flag stuck in their food than they were about the food...
For dessert, Kendall wanted ice cream sandwiches like the ones she lived off of in Pinetop. So, that's what we had... ice cream sandwiches and popsicles...
We had just enough time left over to open gifts...
The girls were all crowded around Kendall while she opened gifts, the boys probably could have cared less...
All afternoon, Kendall kept saying, "I love all my gifts" over and over again. She really was happy with everything...
No comments:
Post a Comment