Addie's 3rd Birthday Weekend

We celebrated Addie's 3rd birthday on Friday with several of her friends at the Build-A-Bear Workshop. We started with pizza and cake, and then everyone headed down to the Workshop to build their bear. Addie has been planning her party for what seems like months, and her requirements were that she had a ladybug cake and a pinata. I made a tower of ladybug cupcakes that Addie was thrilled with, and the kids devoured them in minutes. At Build-A-Bear, each guest got to choose and stuff their own special bear to take home. Addie made a bear she named "Bubble Flops" and Kellen made a bear named "Loggy." We weren't sure how to do a pinata at the Crabtree Valley Mall foodcourt, and we were quite sure we couldn't do it at Build-A-Bear. So Friday night she got to choose where to go for dinner (Chick-fil-a it was!), and then she got to go to the party store to pick out a pinata. Today (Addie's actual birthday) we let Addie invite the neighbors to the backyard to break open a pinata. It was big fun! Kellen was so impressed with all the weekend fun that he's already planning his own birthday 6 months down the road!