I threw my first kids party this year for Keelan’s 3rd birthday. My husband’s birthday is a couple days later so they’ve done the combo bday for the first two years. It’s not like Keelan noticed, lol. But with the big 3, I figured it was time he had his own special day.

We booked a party at Bay & Bee play space, and in true mommy blogger fashion, I immediately created a Pinterest board for toddler birthday party inspiration and invited baby store website Birdy Boutique to send a few things to take pics of and use as giveaways.

I pretty much got overwhelmed just figuring out how much food to bring, ignored everything on my Pinterest board and never managed to make those gift bags I thought we just had to have. I gave up on making the food myself and ordered three trays of food from Publix – wraps, veggies and fruit.

And despite all my intentions of making fancy decorations, I realized he wasn’t even going to care so I ordered a Cars themed party set off Amazon and some cool removable road tape to use to decorate the floor and called it done on decorations.

The party went by in a super-fast blur where I managed to get no pics of the kid stuff because Keelan wouldn’t wear anything! No bow ties, no dinosaur capes and not even his awesome birthday crown! So, since I still have some goodies leftover, I’m going to give away a little prize pack from Birdy Boutique- check out the details on my Instagram @GeekMamasBlog.

Overall, I think it was a success and the birthday boy was happy. He got cars, cars and more cars. Oh, and a big box of LEGOs he’s not touching again until he’s five. Maybe then he won’t spend the afternoon throwing them in hard-to-reach places.

Happy Birthday to my baby boy. He’s growing into a little man so fast! A little man that runs around naked and pees on the floor, but still… hard to believe he’s already three!