Backyardigan's Party

Friday night we had Eli's birthday party... kind of spur of the moment due to "hurricane" hanna. Even though the hurricane turned out to be a joke of sorts, they were forecasting it to do some damage, so i didn't want to take that lightly & moved the party from Saturday afternoon at the park (which ended up being beautiful) to Friday night at Mema's (when it was nice & rainy!) Eli was thrilled with his birthday cake - which was the most impressive Pablo (from the Backyardigans) in a star. I loved it so much i had a hard time cutting it! Many thanks to our friend Andrea, from church, for making it. She is so talented! (it kind of makes me want to take a cake decorating class, but really... where would i fit that in??)

Eli's first look at his special cake...To say that he wasn't too sure why we were all singing to him... was an understatement!

Blowing out the candles... Eli not only enjoyed looking at the cake, but he enjoyed EATING it too! He took his sweet time & even after everyone else was up from the table, he was still sitting there working on his!

When it came time to open presents, he was excited & engaged with each one. In fact we had to nudge him along to open a new one, because he would want to sit & hold/inspect the current one. And speaking of presents, we now officially own anything & everything that has a backyardigan on it! Seriously! He got 2 backyardigan balls, 3 DVDs, 2 books, a watch, a stuffed pablo character, a lunchbox, a color wonder tablet & a mini doodle pro! He also recieved some new clothes & sidewalk chalk, tadoodles markers, a fun snappy sounds book, bristle blocks (a real hit with Jackson too!) & some money that we already used yesterday at stride rite to get new tennis shoes (thanks Gma & Papa Evans!)When we got home from the party, Nanny was waiting for us. She wasn't able to make it in time for the party since it was moved to Friday evening, but decided to spend the weekend with us as originally planned anyway. (Hurricane Hanna didn't scare her! Ha!) Eli was thrilled to show her each & every gift he got & then he got to open one more, Nanny's gift!

Thanks to everone who made his day special & for being patient with the changing of the party last minute! We had a great time!