Moses' Birthday Party

Guess who turns 5 on Tuesday?

I took a cue from Andy's mom from Toy Story and threw him an early birthday party before we move.

Moses wanted a Lego party, but me being the sneaky mom, I convinced him that a Halloween cookie decorating party would be way more fun (and much less planning for me). And it was!

When I was done inputing all the email addresses for the evite, I realized I had invited almost 20 families! All I wanted to do was invite the kids from Moses' CTR and preschool classes, but his preschool class consists of almost all the sunbeams in our ward, too. They're both huge classes.

I did have the brilliant idea to invite parents and siblings, too, so even though that meant more kids, it also meant more adults to help out. Sometimes I have really awesome ideas, and that was one of them. All in all we had 10 adults and 24 kids at the party.

Big crowd. Little table.

A bird's eye view of the cookie madness.

I made all the cookies and frosting, but I asked everyone to bring a bag of small candies or sprinkles for decoration. Everyone stepped up. It was a ton of fun.

Working hard.

Check out that concentration.

I decided at the last minute to make certificates and have a contest for most creative cookies. I have six cutters, so I did six certificates: Beastly Bat, Creative Cat, Silliest Skeleton, Tastiest Tombstone, Punniest Pumpkin, and Goopiest Ghost. These kids were the winners:

The Hallow-winners!

I didn't want to give my kids prizes, because I would rather have given them to the guests, but after careful consideration, I just had to give "Punniest Pumpkin" to Akiko.

Check out those white chocolate fangs!

After we did prizes and presents, we did cake. My amazing friend, Kim, and her daughter weren't able to make it to the party, but she still offered to make Moses' cake for me. I was sooo glad she did, because I was trying to figure out how I was going to bake 120+ cookies and make a cake at the same time.

I asked her to make a Lego cake for Moses, since that's what he really wanted, so I drew out a plan for Kim, and she produced this perfectly adorable masterpiece:

The nubs are Oreos covered in fondant.

This party ended up a huge success. Moses had tons of fun, got to be with all his friends, and got lots of fun presents. The kids' cookies were all super adorable. Clean up wasn't as daunting a task as I imagined either.

I'm glad I was able to do this for Moses. He's such a special little man in my life. I love him so much. I'm probably not going to be able to do the traditional birthday blog on his actual birthday. We move on Wednesday.

So, Moses, my wonderful biggest boy, Happy 5th Birthday. I love you to the end of the universe and back!