Patrick is four! Nicki said to me, isn’t it weird we’ll never do another four year old party? It is! It’s so strange that our babies are growing up and soon no more little kid things. It’s great on one hand, but I can see the ‘weirdness’ of it. Of time going way faster than I thought it could……Okay, enough of that! Snap out of it! On to the fun of the party and celebrating my baby.
I'm especially proud of my hand made tags!
His DS
Lots of fun Lego sets
And my baby is four...wow.
I love birthday themes. They show what my kids are into at that point in time and it’s fun to look back and see what they liked (when they’re older, not like next year 🙂 ). With Patrick being only three, he didn’t really know how to choose. He would always just tell me that he wanted the same party as his brother. So I thought about it and he loves technology. A lot. He loves the DS, iPhones, iPad…I mean really loves them; but he also loves the Lego people. He will collect them all from the Lego bin, play with them, look at them in the Lego book he got for Christmas…Both seemed fun! So it came down to the cake. Which would be easier to make order…Lego or iPad. I can’t stand the P word buzzing around online, but I heard there were tons of great ideas for Lego parties and cakes on Pinterest, so I checked it out. I still don’t have an account, (trying to boycott that as long as possible…I mean I just don’t see the point of ‘pinning’ ideas virtually. Isn’t that the same as bookmarking sites? Whatever) Anyway, back to my point. I don’t have an account, but I did search and found some great ideas. There were a ton of great Lego cakes out there. Emily did a fabulous job! (Insert commercial: If you are like me and need someone to do all your baking, she’s your woman! sweetcakesandbakes.blogspot.com) I also found the adorable party favor bags. I filled them with color sheets from Lego’s site, Lego man stickers and Lego man crayons I found online. The tags were a little time consuming, but sooo fun that I had to do them. So those were a few of my great theme ideas.
The crayons
When Mac turned four, I taped him opening his present from us. It’s one of my favorite videos to watch. So I made it a point to tape Patrick opening his present at four also, just to see the differences/similarities in them at that age. I have to say that Mac still seemed like the ‘older soul’ of the two. Just for fun, I put them together in a video. First up is Mac. Notice how he takes his time opening it. Then he looks at it and discusses it. Then Patrick’s turn. He tears open and rushes to get it opened right away. So showing of their personalities! 🙂
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You can see all the fun in the birthday photo album.