4 years old

Max is turning 4! Max loves Trains but we did a train party last year. One of his favorite songs is dinosaur train (PBS show). We decided we would go along with the dinosaur theme.

 I found these awesome hats at the dollar store last month.  They were a big hit.

 We served dino nuggets (Chicken nuggets shaped like dinosaurs), hot dogs, chips, veggies and mangos.  After lunch we had a dinosaur egg hunt.

 The kids had a lot of fun finding the eggs.  We had stuffed a few with candy but most had little plastic dinosaurs in the.

 Once we found all the eggs, the kids emptied the prizes and put the eggs in a dinosaur nest.

 Curtis headed up the next activity.  He had hid some dinosaurs in some sawdust. 

 I Originally found this fun kit on line.  It is a brick of clay and sand but there are plastic pieces of a t-rex skeleton inside. The kids took turns hammering out the pieces.

We ended up buying this kit at costco.  It came with 2 other kits.  One was a volcano and the other was Triops.  Triops are ugly water creatures you do not want in your house.  I know this because we grew them in our house for two weeks.

 I totally forgot to get some candles for the cake but max was a good sport and still blew when we finished the birthday song.

Thanks to all of our friends who came to help celebrate!

We ended the party with the volcano.  Sadly, it was a bit of a let down.  Oh well, the rest of the party had been a lot of fun.

Kendall had fallen asleep at the beginning of the party so Claire kindly put him on a bed in grandma's house.  We are not sure when he woke up but Curtis found him wandering the house crying about halfway through the party.  It was really sad.

After the party was over, we were cleaning up.  Curtis had put the balloons in the car but I thought they would pop from the heat so I opened a door. I was standing right next to the car talking to Claire when Kennedy came running from the back yard telling us the balloons got away.  We looked to the sky and there they were 10 feet above our heads. Max's reaction was great.  Curtis showed him the balloons floating away and he immediately looked to where they had been tied for the party, then back to the sky.  "Uh-oh!"