Humpty Dumpty Party!

Today we celebrated Niave's 3rd birthday (which is on Monday) with a nursery rhyme party.

She "ordered" her Humpty Dumpty cake in August last year and there was no wavering on it at all so a nursery rhyme party it had to be. And it was actually quite a lot of fun to organise and I think the kids all had fun too!

There was a lot of baking to be done and with baking comes licking the bowl - this year she managed it all on her own!!

The morning dawned ominously cloudy after a huge thunder storm over night and quite a lot of rain.

I told myself that it had rained itself out overnight - but I was horribly misled!! The heavens opened about 45 minutes before the party but fortunately it didn't last too long and it turned out fine and actually quite hot. In fact it was so hot I was like a ripe tomato by the end!

The children all got busy with a craft as they arrived - Humpty Dumpty's of course!

Then they had to find Little Bo Peep's sheep which were lost in my garden! After which they received a party box which they filled with treats while helping me complete some nursery rhymes. So they got a marshmallow mouse for Hickory Dickory Dock, a ladybird cupcake for Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home and moon shaped biscuits for Hey diddle diddle etc. etc. etc.

We did some party games:

pass-the-(enormous)-parcel

Jack and Jill's bucket race

and musical bumps:

After all the fun and games it was time for the cake! Niave was a little shy and needed some "help" blowing out her candles!!

She received many lovely presents and had great fun playing with them for the rest of the afternoon. She is now fast asleep, completely finished because as she often says "*sigh* I've had a busy day"!