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Jonas V. Kozlek’s 1st Birthday

Jonas is my Pumpkin Baby. He was born on a cold day at the end of October.  For his first Birthday Party, I decided to have a Classic Halloween event. So all the adult and children could play some classic Halloween/Fall games. This party was very low key. We had  lunch catered by Damon’s restaurant. They have an awesome takeout menu, and it really made the day care free. I highly recommend their artichoke spinach dip!   We gave out Mrs. Prindable’s candy apples as favors to the  Family and Friends who came  to celebrate our second son’s special day. It surprisingly snowed the weekend we were hosting his party. So everything  had to be indoors. I had the house decorated for Halloween with a few baby’s first birthday farm themed plates and table clothes.  One of my favorite decorations was a white pumpkin with Happy First Birthday Jonas and Picture of him decoupaged on.

Some highlights of the day included:

1. No Hands Donut Eating Contest or Fishing for Children:

2. Pumpkin Decorating:

3. Various Halloween Games such as ring toss, and this golfing/ping pong ball game Vince and I created:

and of course Baby’s First Cake!

Happy Birthday Baby!

This year Jake decided he wanted a Firetruck party!

Firehouse

For his birthday present we got him a really cool inflatable firetruck house. We set that up in the yard for when the kids came. After lunch, we started with a craft. The kiddos made their own Dalmatian refrigerator magnets.  I got wooden dog cutouts from a local craft store. Painted them white ahead of time. The four year olds painted the dots and faces on the dogs. I also got a firetruck badges from oriental trading company. Some of the older kids put them together.

After the crafts it was time for the Games! First up was a fireman training course. The kiddos crawled through a tube, around the swingset and back to the firehouse where they were awarded their firehats.

Now that they were offical fireman, they needed to go on their mission. I had a cd player that had a fire alarm sound. I also prerecorded radio transmissions to tell the kids what was wrong. The first message informed the kids that they had to rescue a cat from a tree. So all the kids ran over to a playhouse I had decorated to look like a tree. One brave fireman climbed up and rescued the stuffed kitty. He carefully through it down to the other kid who were holding a parachute. We did this a few times with other fireman… until we got the next Call!

Kitty Rescue

There was Fire up the hill. I created  a cardboard building… Where the kiddos had to do a water balloon relay to put out the pretend fire.

Finally the kids searched through read and yellow streamers to rescue little toys I had hidden in the backyard.

We had a great time 🙂

even if they look a wee bit Amish…

Jacob truly loves his baby