Monday, February 22, 2010

Ellie is 3 (Or Free)

Ellie turned 3 last week on February 15th. Or in her words she is now "free!". To celebrate we had a Curious George themed birthday party with some of her friends and cousins. She has been asking about her George party for a good month so I was happy that it finally arrived!

The invitation:

We got Ellie some balloons and a small Mylar of Curious George but they ended up upgrading to this gigantic Curious George balloon. It's bigger than Ellie! And still up floating around the house over a week later. She loves it!


We played a few games like a banana toss into monkey shaped mouths, pin the banana on the monkeys hand, made a monkey faced craft and the kids all played outside in the beautiful February in Arizona weather. Ellie, Sam and Wyatt had fun putting rocks inside of our rock wall. And Ellie and Katie played catch with a Curious George bouncy ball. And of course the ever popular playhouse and shopping cart. Good thing we gave her a playhouse early for her birthday! (And in case you were wondering.... 8 kids and toys can fit inside that playhouse!)




I attempted making monkey cupcakes:




And Ellie scored a haul from all her wonderful friends. She loves each and every present she received and they have been well loved in the last week. She is still talking about her George birthday party and having fun with all of her friends and cousins. So I think it was a success!


Chloe chilled with Dad during the party:

4 comments:

Christina MC said...

Still cracks me up that with all the monkey decorations the masks scared her. Glad she had a good time!

Brenda said...

What a cute Mom! It looks like she had a great time. Happy B-Day!

Becky said...

Happy belated birthday to Ellie!

And I don't think you just attempted, I think you succeeded at making monkey cupcakes. They're darling.

Emilee said...

CUTE cupcakes!