All about Josh - AKA Mosh

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Josh's Third Birthday

Last year I started a competition to see if anyone could guess the theme of this year's party...
some of the answers I got were:
Wiggles, Smurfs, Mr Squiggle and Pony.
This comment from Pop was funny... "you would look great in a cowboy suit" If you look at the photos you will see that Josh and Sam had matching outfits with a cowboy theme... Josh's said "Wanted - for being the cutest ever" and Sam's said"Littlest Cowboy". So I would have to say that Pop came closest, though I did get some comments later that it was impossible to pick a theme of something that Josh had only heard about a couple of months ago! (You don't know how close we were to having another train party!).

The theme of the party was "The Green Sheep", taken from Josh's favourite book "Where is the Green Sheep" by Mem Fox.

I found this picture of a sheep cake...

...saw a challenge,
and spent a week cooking, carving,
icing and decorating until I came up with this...



The Party...
Josh's friends and family came on Saturday morning to help celebrate Josh's birthday. The kids had great fun running around the backyard, the weather was perfect!
I took the kids inside and read them the Green Sheep book. I was amazed that most of them actually sat there and listened and interacted while I read the book. Josh was playing but did look up at the book every now and then and came over for the page with the train sheep (which I knew he would do!). For some reason he also decided it was a good time to start stripping (!!!)
While we were reading, Kel was hiding chocolate money around the backyard for a treasure hunt. We took a bit too long with the book so the kids had lots of melted chocolate over their faces by the time we got to them! Then we brought out the now famous Green Sheep!

Some of the presents that Josh got at the party were: books, clothes, runners, Thomas towel, trucks, puzzle, a bear chair and a train calendar.

Here is a picture of Josh pretending to sleep on his bear chair...

The Zoo...

For Josh's actual birthday we were going to spend the day at the zoo... but then they said the weather was going to be 31 and smokey, so we went on Sunday instead with Aunty Kel, Mark, Aunty Lou and the kids. Here is the traditional photo of me and Josh at the butterfly enclosure...
And once again Josh's favourite thing was the giraffes, but once again he spent most of the time there looking at the drinking fountain!!!

The actual Day...
Josh's third birthday ended up spanning three days (lets hope this idea doesn't continue or we could be in big trouble by his 21st birthday!).
It was a very relaxed kind of day spend in our pjs mainly :)
We played with the trains and watched Thomas videos and gave Josh a present every couple of hours. From us he got a Matchbox car thing (hard to describe), a game where fish are blown up into the air and you catch them with a net, a blackboard and a basketball ring.
He also got a kitchen set with pretend food (including chips!), and a Puffing Billy tshirt in the mail.
We did eventually get dressed and got takeaway chicken and chips for dinner and ate at the park and had icecreams for dessert. There was even some sheep head left so we could sing Happy Birthday and eat some cake on the actual day!


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