Our friends, Susie and Shawn, helped us so much. They made the games that the kids played. They helped with setting up and cleaning up. And Susie took many of the pictures I'm posting, including this great family picture.
You know it was a great party when there was table dancing before the party even started.
The theme of the party was monsters. So we had a monster sub sandwich. The sub, which was really good, was from Wal-Mart. The monster bits were jack-o'-lantern parts from Dollar Tree.
The birthday cake was a Texas sheet brownie with candy and marshmallow eyes.
I called it a mud monster. Lucy needed some help with the candle. We tried practicing blowing out candles the week before her party, but the fire freaked her out.
Lucy didn't actually play any of the games, but she had fun trying to knock down the tower Shawn set up for monster bowling. We had to keep catching her to keep her from ruining other people's turns.
This was the best way to keep her from knocking down the tower or getting in the way.
She also enjoyed peeking at daddy, who was pretending to be a monster.
This is Lucy with her friend, Elin. Elin's dad is a professor in the English department with Matt. Lucy and Elin had ever met before the party, but they became fast friends. We're used to kids crying and running from Lucy, so we were thrilled that Lucy made a friend.
Lucy really got into the present opening. We let her stand on a table to open gifts.
We really had to be on our toes with Lucy on the table.
Ooo! A book!
She had lots of help with her gifts.
Dr. Lindsay Anderson couldn't wait to play with Lucy's toys. Everybody had fun at this party.
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