Victoria's Ladybug Picnic Birthday Party

We can hardly believe it! She has been growing so quickly. Victoria wanted to celebrate with a ladybug picnic party, so that is exactly what we did. It was sweet and simple and a lot of fun. It was a good theme for V. Ever since she was a baby she has liked ladybugs. They often land on her, which we have heard is good luck. They even came into her nursery when she was a baby. Strange, huh, to have a little ladybug invasion. It wasn't any other bug or in any other room. In the picture above there is also a cute rock that she painted to look like a ladybug when she was three. And does anyone remember the potato project about 50 posts back? She made a ladybug then too. She also painted her own fingernails and toenails red with black spots the day of the party. I would have helped if she had asked. But, she was pretty pleased with her work, so we let her enjoy them.

So, what would we do at a ladybug picnic you might ask. We started with a picnic style dinner- hot dogs, chips, veggies with dip, and lemonade with Twizzler straws. Then, Danny did the honors and lit the ladybug cake. V thought the ladybug cake was pretty cute. That was a tricky one for me to come up with, so I'm glad she liked it.

Christian, Alyssa, Ciara, Emma, and the adults sang Happy Birthday!

It looks like she made a good wish! I wonder what she wished for.

After the cake and ice cream we played games. We played a ladybug version of hot potato(with a stuffed ladybug toy), and stick the ladybug on the leaf(instead of pin the tail on the donkey). They were pretty fun. The kids thought it was super funny to spin the moms around blindfolded and sitting on the computer chair and watch us try to put our stickers on the leaf.

(We put the camera down after the cake, so had to reenact this.)
Then Victoria jumped into my arms and dad caught it on camera. It was pretty funny.

Back to the party though, lastly she opened presents. She received some my little ponies and a beautiful homemade purse. She loved them both! The girls had fun playing ponies and Barbies until it was time to go. We gave the girls little bags of red and black jellybellies tied with cute ribbon as they left. It was probably the easiest party that I have hosted, but Danny thought it was the best. V loved it too. We were thankful and hope that she has a fantastic year!