3rd birthday party

With everything going on with Aria, we knew we really needed to give you a proper birthday party.  Unfortunately I couldn't give you the weeks of planning and homemade decoration this time around, but it still turned out pretty good!  We invited all your old friends and all our new neighbors via text the day before your birthday but almost everyone was able to come!  So we made a late night trip to Walmart to buy all the party gear.  We decided to go with a Monsters University theme since you're really into that right now.

You insisted on having the pinata ride in the front of the cart with you.

Right before bed - showing us how old you are.

This is the view I wake up to every morning - you climbing up my little stepladder.  You 're showing us how old you are now!

Here's Daddy teaching you how to play tee-ball - that set was his present to you and he set it up while we were prepping for the party.

Ayisha spent over an hour filling up a tub full of water balloons that were later destroyed in 5 minutes.

For your party we were very casual - we just set up 3 different water areas and let the kids loose.  There was your normal slide going into the pool, a new little pool, and a slip n slide.

What a great action shot!

Food was pretty casual - just hot dogs and chips.

You ate 2 whole hot dogs.  Snatched them right out of my buns on my plate, actually.

Posing with the backdrop - you more or less figured out the props.

Blowing out your Monsters Inc candles.  Yes, this is a storebought cake, but it was still pretty good!  All you wanted to eat was the frosting anyway.

You were pretty confused about why we were hitting your beloved pinata.

To avoid traumatizing you, Daddy just opened the trapdoor on the pinata after every had a turn to hit.

You got some great presents especially considering that most people didn't know about the party until the day before!  Your favorite was definitely the James train that Alden got you (his mommy knows what's up since Alden's only a few weeks younger than you and loves trains too!)