Joshua's 4th Birthday Party

Joshua turned 4 on November 29th and we held his party a couple of days later....he wanted a Dr. Seuss party, and we had a blast thinking of ideas together! We decorated our house really fun with pictures we found on the internet, as well as pictures Joshua drew himself of the "Cat in the hat".... I included just 2 of the several pictures he drew of the Cat in the hat himself, and then he also drew a map of how to get from the Cat in the Hat's house to Sally's house :) The kitchen looked really fun with lots of Dr. Seuss pictures, and red streamers taped to the wall to make it look like a circus tent or something. I tried my best to make the cat in the hat's hat as a cake, but messed up taking the cake out of the pan and it all fell to smaller pieces, so I ended up doing his whole head, hat and bow tie and it actually turned out alright. Josh liked it! We got these koolaid drinks that were red and blue and had funky dr. seuss looking shapes to them, and put out goldfish crackers in a fish bowl, red swedish fish scattered here and there, and multi-colored swedish fish in the goodybags. We got snacks that looked kinda funky like they could be from a dr. seuss book. We also lined up all of our Dr. Seuss books on the ledges in the living room as decoration. We even put a picture of the Grinch on the window greedily guarding the presents. The games turned out pretty fun! Insead of "pin the tail on the donkey", we did "Pin the wocket on the pocket" - Josh won because he was the only one who cheated and would not wear the bandana over his eyes, but since he's the birthday boy he was allowed I guess. :) Then we played "hand, hand, foot", which is basically "duck, duck, goose".... it was a hit! We also had the kids do a craft - Thing 1 and Thing 2 puppets! I cut up a fuzzy blue scarf for the hair and we glued it to the top of white socks, then added red felt for the "body" and white felt with "Thing 1" or "Thing 2" written on it. We added googly eyes and drew on a face with a black sharpie, and Voila!! Puppets! Before the kids left we played one last game outside - Sneetch Tag! The kids ran around and if you were tagged you got a star put on your belly (shirt), then you had to hold hands with the person who was it and run and try to catch another person...that person then got a star and joined the chain, etc. We had lots of great friends come and we're very greatful to all of them :) Overall i think Josh had a great birthday party, and later that day he was already planning for his 5th birthday! Yikes give me a year to recover! :)