Saturday we celebrated Ella's 4th birthday with a Curious George themed party. It was a lot of fun to put together, although I didn't invest as much time planning this year, and thankfully it still all came together just fine! Here's a recap of the fun day!
A pre-party picture of Ella & Chase - they were super excited for the day!
Waiting for everyone to arrive with Grandma Deb!
I saw a Pinterest idea showing George hanging out with balloons above the main table. We used beach balls with primary colors (to match the decor!) and Curious George hung out up there for the party.
Another Pinterest idea: We had everyone who attended sign a birthday note to Ms. Ella in the Curious George and the Birthday Surprise book! LOVE IT!
Party favors for the kiddos included containers of candy, monkey stickers and
a Curious George book to take home! I also had printables of Curious George from pbskids.org, but we didn't even have time to use those!
Of course we ordered a balloon bouquet for the party! The large balloon on top is so huge that I couldn't even get it in the picture!!
I made these "Man with the Yellow Hat" hats for the tables outside. Cute right? I lucked out on finding the cones at the Dollar Store in the graduation section (random!) and then I added black electrical tape to make them fit right in for the Curious George decor!
I made a banana dessert (we call it Banana Delight) and we also served frozen banana slices covered in chocolate and ordered Curious George cupcakes (I didn't bake the cakes this year). I think the cupcakes turned out super cute!
See her big smile? She was super happy to have everyone singing Happy Birthday to her. :) And she blew out the candle all by herself this year! She was very proud of herself to turn off the fire! :)
She got TONS of gifts! (and kept giving us this cheeseball smile!)
High five for new PJs!!
And the grand finale gift from Jay & I was Ella's first bike. She needs some pedaling practice & her legs are too big for the little red trike now, so it was time for a big girl bike! You guys, it was HILARIOUS! Jay brought the bike down as we were opening the other gift from us and she looked up, saw Jay coming down the stairs with the bike and goes quietly "oohhh mmmyyyy goooshhhh...." It was so cute I wish I would have captured it on video. She loves it. :)
It's got a seat for her baby in the back. Hilarious!!
This year's photo op included photo booth Curious George props (found them on Etsy). It was really fun!
Did you notice Ella's new pigtail bows? I wanted to get Curious George bows on Etsy but I failed to place an order in time to arrive for the big day, so I decided to make my own. I think they turned out really cute and I plan to make more of this style bows!
It was a fun party!!
We were all pretty worn out and Ella finally crashed for a SUPER late snooze after 4 o'clock!
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