Emma's 3 Year Birthday Bash

January 24, 2010
The day before Emma's 3rd birthday we threw her a big birthday bash with 17 kids and 23 adults!Above Emma admires her table all set with gifts for her friends and presents starting to pile up. She was so excited this year. She really has gotten into birthday celebrations now and was thrilled to be having one of her own.

Erick was one of her first little friends to arrive and Emma couldn't wait to get him all set with party hat.
For a 3 year old, Emma is very kind, sharing, giving and nurturing which I am hoping will bode well when her baby brother arrives.

We started the party with yummy snacks and warm hors d' oeuvres. All of which Emma loves to eat so went over well with all our little guest and big guest too!
It was really fun to look out at our friends with little kids too. When I first met them all we were all working ladies and gentlemen some of us not even married and no kids on the way. Now we have happy marriages kids and loads of fun. It's amazing how in 10 years so much can change.
Emma was her super social self, holding hands and leading everyone into fun things to do.
She excitedly shared her toys and her friends with everyone and all the kids played so well together.
All the guest helped there selves to all the fun food.

I wasn't keen on doing any games, but my Mother in Law talked me into a wonderful game called pass the parcel / gift. She wrapped bags of jelly belly's in a small bag then in a bigger bag, then in an even bigger bag and so on until there was one big bag to pass around.
Donald played the music while all the kids stood in a circle and passed the bag, when the music stopped the child with the bag got to open the bag and then the music would start all over again, until the last bag was opened.
What was great about the game was that no one was left out and that everyone won! Everyone got their own bag of Jelly Belly's to take home!

And they finished just in time for CAKE!
Emma was so excited and it really made her birthday when Everyone stated singing "Happy Birthday To You" I never knew there could be so much joy in such a small little body.
At that moment I knew why I went through all the trouble to give her such a big party. It made my day to have her so happy. And it was all Emma really wanted!

Well that and a slice of the cake :)
I think Emma had her cake finished before Cate could even start on hers. Then it was off to open gifts.
Everyone was so kind and generous, Emma got some lovely new clothes and some fun new toys and some great new books to read.


All the kids were happy to help and got excited about all the gifts too! Above Paulo is eager to explain to Emma the joys of a DVD.

Gianna knew what every gift was and explained them all. She is smart and clever little girl. She also makes a wonderful big sister to Talia.
And at the end Emma became a bit of a sugar blur chasing Erick around the house.


On Monday the 25, Emma's real birthday Donald and I took her to Islands for dinner. Then we came home and had left over slices of birthday cake and had Emma open our gifts to her. We got her loads of art supplies and portfolio along with new bath toys.