Footloose and Fancy Three

On Saturday we celebrated Zoe's 3rd birthday with her friends and their families.  When you're making invitations for the party you begin to come to the realization that your child is more popular than you.

At age 3, she had 27 kids on her invite list.  If you add their parents and my family, you've got about 60 people on the list.  Sixty people for a 3 year old's party.  I don't even think there would be 60 people on the list for my birthday!

The theme was music, so we spend a good portion of the afternoon sweating to the oldies.  At this point I would like to thank Richard Simmons for teaching me how throw a killer dance/workout party.  I would also like to thank The Wiggles for making approximately 6,012 songs that played throughout the party non-stop.  If it weren't for these two things, the 16 children that came wouldn't have been half as entertained as they were.

We played a little freeze dancing, musical islands (like musical chairs, but with poster board taped to the floor instead of chairs), more freeze dancing, some Ring Around the Rosey, London Bridges and more freeze dancing.

Then we made some kazoos out of empty toilet paper rolls, construction paper, stickers and wax paper.

We realized we still had 45 minutes of time to fill.  Those 3 year olds need a new activity every 10 minutes.  Just like in the 90's, all that sweating to the oldies really knocks it out of a girl.

We did a parade around the building with our new kazoos.  If you've never seen a kazoo band of 3 year olds, I highly recommend it.  If you've never heard a kazoo band of 3 year olds, I don't recommend it. 

I'm not sure if it was a combination of sweating and deafness, but we decided to take a small break to eat cake.  I have to spend a moment on the cake.  It was absolutely to die for.  Diana at Happy Cake Co. made it for me.  All I told her was it was a music party and we're doing pink, black and white.  This is what she came up with:

I had a really hard time cutting into it.  I can tell you it tasted as awesome as it looked. 

One equation all the sweating and deafness made me forget is sugar + toddlers = hyper!

Fortunately it was around nap time, so we sent all the kiddos home with their kazoos and sugar rushes.

It was a great party with great people.  They all made Zoe feel special and loved.  What more could you ask of your child's friends?