Donovan's Birthday Party

Happy Birthday Donovan!

We had the opportunity to celebrate Donovan's birthday on Saturday. Michelle had been asking Donovan for the past 3 weeks what kind of cake he wanted. Every single day she would ask and every single day Donovan would tell her something different! Finally Michelle decided that since the boys like trains and Donovan has seemed especially interested in building train track configurations that she would do a train theme.

So she did the research, planned and prepared for a train party including the snacks in the cafeteria car, train invitations, train-train-caboose (game) and a train cake. Then just as she was preparing to pour the batter for the cake Donovan decides that he would like to have a flower cake instead! Yeah, pretty much didn't see that one coming. He had asked for a princess cake at one point but this was the first mention of a flower cake. We had joked about making the princess cake for him but had decided to do the trains instead. Fortunately Michelle is amazingly talented and was able to whip out a flower cake instead. Obviously on short notice, she creates a flower cake as the kids are arriving for the party.

I think it turned out rather nicely. Donovan was very pleased with his flower cake. A few moms were a little surprised at seeing a flower instead of a train. But it didn't seem to affect the party one bit.

We were able to fit 10 of the kids around our humble table. It was loud and rambunctious but all sorts of fun.

Donovan received several fun toys and he enjoyed opening his presents. The kids at the party were almost more excited than he was as the circle closed in to see what he would get next!

We are grateful for everyone who came and participated in the party. As the kids arrived we had a rousing game of shoot Brother Jones. The boys found every toy gun we have in the house and decided that I was on the other team. Then we tried shooting each other but in the end I was killed twice (but I held out for a long time)! Those not shooting me had a chance to color some fun train pictures. Next we sat in a circle and played train-train-caboose. For some reason everyone thought it was great fun to pick on me, probably because I was the slowest one there and they could easily make it to my spot without getting tagged.

Of course the cake a present opening were big hits. The party only last 1 hour and seemed to be just about the right amount of time. As each participant left they got to take a grab bag of goodies with them and they were excitedly talking about the next party. We'll have to see if I get any invitations. ;-)

The Bunkers shared a wonderful present for Donovan. This present was special because the Bunker didn't think the present itself would be exciting enough and so they added some more fun!

Now that we know what FUN is we'll be sure to return the favor!!!