3 Going On 4. . .

On Friday I spent a rather enjoyable day with Mr 3 snuggled up in bed planning his birthday party for next month.

I LOVE the kids birthdays and I LOVE having birthday parties for them. I've always let them have as much say as possible in who they would like, the theme they would like and of course the all important birthday cake!!

This year my little country bumpkin has decided he wants a cow boy themed dress up party.
I think I'm more excited about this theme than he is.

So we snuggled on down with the iPad and looked at hundreds of pictures of cakes, invitations, games and funky decorations. Mr 3 seems to have higher hopes for my creative ability than I do-but hey what's a birthday party without a good challenge.

After Miss5's party last year, where we ended up with 7 extra uninvited kids, hardly any rsvps (but lots of kids) and a very worn out mummy, who changed the menu only days before the party I've decided to keep things a little more simple this time. Although I must admit in November I was 8 weeks pregnant and right in the middle of my severe morning sickness/all day nausea and planning and cooking for 50 people wasn't really on my to do list. The food and prep for this party will be a lot simpler but I hope just as fantastic as all our other parties.

Also for Mr3's birthday I'm only allowing him to invite a few people from his class. For my daughters 4th and 5th birthdays we invited the whole class, which was wonderful as she had an amazing group of kids who were ALL friends and all the parents got along really well.
This year they both have, let's say, interesting classes. Including a fantastic crack addict looking mum in Mr3's class and a bully that constantly picks on, and has twice bitten my daughter!
In some ways I feel very unfair, allowing my daughter to have the entire class while Mr3 only has 5 friends from school. I try to always be as fair as possible with both my kids allowing them the same privileges at the same ages.
I even talked to my husband about it, but we just agreed that Miss5 was extremely blessed to have an amazing group of kids and unfortunately Mr3 just doesn't have that same dynamic in his class this year. And I don't want to open up my house to a group of people I don't feel comfortable with.

Mr3 being our easy going, laid back little boy has absolutely no idea that he's got a smaller invite list than his sister has had, he seems perfectly happy with the 3 little boys and 2 girls he has chosen for his party. Plus the usual family and friends. It should be a nice sized party and hopefully take a pile of stress away from me.

And for now? It's back to Pinterest to keep browsing thhere cowboy/farm themed party and cake ideas! Gosh I love Pinterest. . .