Little Monster Birthday Party

I decided to have his birthday party the weekend before his birthday since Gavin's Aunt J and Emma would be in town.  We started the weekend of celebration off with a trip to Cheehaw on Friday where the adults had more fun than the kids, but oh well.

I was not nearly as psychotic on Saturday as I had been expecting and warning Clay about.  I guess all the prayers that he and I had said were answered :-).  I had lots of lists and that helped keep me sane also.  The weather was perfect, not too hot and definitely not cold.  There were also no rain showers which was a blessing because we had the party at the park.

The party theme was "little monsters" which was made much easier by lots of nice people on Etsy supplying me with little monster clip art, ideas, and Gavin's shirt.  Since no one actually sold little monster party supplies.
Clay created the invite for me using the clip art I bought from BabyStarDesign.  I am so blessed to have a creative husband.

I was also blessed by finding this party planning blog http://makinmudpies.blogspot.com/2010/03/little-monster-birthday-party.html that just so happened to have the same party idea and gave lots of good suggestions.  Although without my creative, handy husband and my cake decorating extraordinaire sister in law, I still wouldn't have been able to pull it off.

Here are some pictures of the fruit monsters Clay made for me, isn't he so talented!!

And here is the terribly delicious cakes that Lesia made:

Anyway back to the birthday boy.  He was so good, I was afraid with all of the people that we invited, that he would be overwhelmed.  I mean he really likes people and doesn't shy away from attention but he had never been around this many people all there to stare at him.  But he handled it just like any other person who has to deal with adoring fans daily.  And he dug right into the cake although he didn't make the mess we were hoping for, he just ate it like he would anything else.  He also didn't have the huge sugar crash/meltdown that I had expected, which was really nice since we had dinner plans with friends later that night.  I am sure the babysitter appreciated it also!

He got tons of presents that we decided not to open at the party, but the one from Clay's parents couldn't be wrapped for obvious reasons so he went straight for it as soon as he saw it.

All I know is he is going to be a legend/terror to the neighborhood children and parent's as soon as his legs are long enough to push the pedals.  In fact the prop even spins when you pedal!!  I can already hear the angry calls from parent's whose children have been mowed down on the street :-).

I have tons of pictures but didn't post them all, instead there is a link to the Picasa web album with all of them if you are interested.  A huge thank you to all of you that were there, it was a wonderful time and we are so thankful to have shared it with you!