This is the last installment in the Trent's fourth birthday posts. Enjoy the birthday cake ritual pictures.
The food spread for Trent's party was exactly the same as what I did for Hunter's party. A veggie tray, a fruit tray, a fruit punch and some pretzels. Don't forget the pizza! Last time we bought pizza, but this time I decided to make it to cut down on the budget for the party. Unfortunately, I completely spaced out and forgot I was having someone to the party that is allergic to milk and all the dips I made had milk of some sort in them. I also had someone allergic to food dye. Just look at the pictures of the cake. LOOK AT THEM! Lesson learned. Next kids party I throw I will make sure that there are options for gluten, food dye, dairy, etc. allergic kids. I like to try and make sure that everyone can enjoy the food and no one feels left out. Luckily, the Mom of the child who has the milk allergy was kind enough to realize that people who have food allergy-free kids tend to forget about the fact that others do have allergy's. Thank you so much Princess!! You totally saved the day for me. With the exception of making sure that there are options for folks with allergy's, the food at future party's will be pretty much identical to what is listed above.
I also tried to make sure there were some fun animal rescuing party games. Unfortunately, while I was assembling the pizzas Garrick was handing me rum and coke's. I finished the first one rather quickly because I was thirsty and then I asked him for another one. By the time I got around to getting the kids together for the party games, I was thoroughly sloshed. I apologize to everyone that was there. I felt pretty badly about that. :/
The first game we did was pin the boot on Boots. One of the poster's that I got on freecycle was the Boot's game, all I had to do was cut out some boots from red construction paper. See the party decoration post to see the poster. The next game we did was very easy to assemble. I got a bunch of little plastic toy animals, put them in a cement mixing tub and covered them in sand. The kids job was to rescue the animals from the sand. They got to keep the animals that they rescued. The last game was to feed Tuga the turtle. I did have to make this poster. I had Garrick draw Tuga and my Mother-in-law was thankfully on hand to paint it for me. I don't know what I would have done if I had to do the job. I know I would have gotten angry and frustrated and spent way too much time working on the poster and not on other stuff. Thanks again Mary. After Mary finished painting and it was dry, I attached it to some cardboard, cut a hole in it and taped it to a laundry basket. The kids threw some balls into the hole to feed Tuga.
So that's it. I have to say it was a very successful party. I think I'm getting pretty good at putting together a kids party on a budget. I had almost everything written out this time like I did for Hunter's party, but I didn't have to rely too much on the written plan like I did last time. I think next year we might do a pool party for Trent's fifth. He's already talking about it!
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