Zach's 4th Birthday Party - kid style

We hosted our first official 'kid style' birthday party! Jen put some good thought into a theme for the party and finally decided on 'monsters'....not scary monsters....just monsters. The theme colors were blue and green (Zach's favorites). He held it during lunch and provided pizza and some snacks for everyone to share. We even invited the parents to stay and attend the party - and they all did! It was a good opportunity for us to meet some of the kids and parents at our children's daycare.....


We made monster masks for all the kids and they had fun running around in them for about 5 minutes....here are Sophia, Lily and Zane...

We played pin the monster face pieces on Zach....it is pretty much just like it sounds. Each kid picked a monster face piece out and each took turns pinning the pieces on a picture of Zach (they were blindfolded of course). I think Logan enjoyed it the most out of everybody...I think he took three turns!

We also had a monster pinata. No party is complete without a pinata! The kids each took a few turns trying to beat up the monster to have it break open to get the goodies from inside....here is Allen and Sophia.

Finally we let some of the dad's take a turn. After the second dad (Floyd) the monster busted open - the kids were excited and the parents were just laughing.

Next it was time for presents. I was quite impressed that Zach was fine having all his friends around him looking at his gifts and helping him open them when necessary - there was no fighting....not what we normally see when Logan tries to help Zach open his gifts!

At this point the kids were itching to dig into those green monster cupcakes. We sang happy birthday and watched all the kids lick off all the frosting...

The it was play time with everything in our house until people wanted to leave. We were getting a kick out of our neighbor, Sydney and her cooking skills...

Logan on the other hand was trying to open all of the boxes his gifts came in.....

Logan also enjoyed being a monster for the rest of the day :)

We had a blast throwing this party for Zach and having all nine kids just run around and have fun today!