Easy tip for most moms who want a special cake, but don't enjoy baking: buy a chocolate or vanilla super sized muffin from the grocery story and decorate it well! It's super special and it was a hit! Another creative shortcut is to go to the internet images of the Octonauts and save the jpeg and add Tristan's name and age. This was the sign in the front!
I feel like these birthdays get a bit easier because we figured out short cuts. And well...we're becoming a well-oiled machine. I do the creative stuff, he brings out chairs and tables from the garage. Loaded on this table, was Octonaut food.
We just ordered pizzas, cut veggies, bought goldish and blue jello, filled up the beverage jug with blue coolaid and and called it Captain Barnacle's "Ocean Water". Super easy! Now onto activities. I always like to do three. The first is crafty. Soctopus anyone??
Craft items: socks, old grocery bags for stuffing, rubberband, fabric glue and little googly eyes. The kids even named them. For $10, I bought a bag of pirate patches because Kwazii, he's a pirate-cat explorer. (You can see him below on the starfish favors.)
Next up is the jawfish egg hunt. Apparently, male jawfish are the ones that have to hold their baby eggs in their mouth until they hatch. Who knew?? Tristan did and so this egg hunt to find the lost jawfish eggs.
After the egg hunt, we did our third activity - they had to race the lost eggs back to the jawfish.
But they couldn't get stung by nearby jellyfish.
Finally, the favors were easier this year because I used sugar cookie made by Nestle and with a starfish cutter, I was able to decorate with leftover icing and I had some white crystals from a previous baby shower. I only had to make 15 too, and that was cheaper than buying a whole bunch of useless favors.
Happy Birthday Tristan! Your parents and brothers celebrate your life because you are worth the celebration, and we just thank God for you. Try and smile about it. :-)
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