Annabelle's and Dr. Seuss' Birthday Celebration!

Kitchen all Seuss'ed out!  The fringed streamers are made from crepe paper
folds found at Zurchers, then cut into strips and then snipped along the edges.
Super easy to make, my husband says, not so easy to hang because they end up
being 7.5 feet long and there were bunches of sections.

Favor bags!  Got the poem online somewhere.  Rhyming is not my thing.

Luckily Dr. Seuss' illustrations are kind of sketchy looking
which makes my cake look more  authentic.  It leaned on it's own too which made it
look more like a floppy hat.  I was just praying it wouldn't lean too far and topple.

Signs welcoming guests to the party!  I forgot a line.
The first sign was supposed to say.  Welcome to our Party,
come this way!  The Cat in the Hat has come to play!  But oh well.

Cat in the Hat cookies and Fish bingo markers

Living Room all decked out!  Never try and blow up 24 balloons
when you're pregnant.  It's just asking for trouble.

Cat in the Hat (Jacob) with Annabelle

Our Bingo Moderator.  I just made up bingo cards using
pictures of things in the Cat in the Hat book.  Goldfish
crackers were used for markers

Annabelle is tickled pink that everyone is singing to her!
She was giggling all the way through the song.

Big sisters were a big help with the little ones.  I think they had
fun too, though!

I know you're going to think that all I do is plan and throw parties, but that's not true.  It just looks true when you look at my blog.  I am posting this as a request.  Annabelle and Dr. Seuss share birthdays.  So I had to throw them both a party, right?  I began trying to throw a Dr. Seuss everything party but got completely overwhelmed with all the fantastic things that could be done.  So I narrowed it down to the Cat in the Hat.  It was really hard to find favors which I thought strange since the PBS show is so popular with the kiddos.  I finally had to buy some teacher supplies from Michaels', but they worked.  And just in case any of you are thinking of throwing a birthday party for 3 year-olds sans parents, I'd wait to do that until they are 5 or so.  It was a bit crazy and I only had it scheduled for an hour.  We did have fun though!  Jacob is the best big brother ever for agreeing to be the Cat in the Hat.  The kids loved him after they stopped being scared of him.