Cookies & Thinking. . .

I totally cheated & made some box Funfetti cookies tonight. It was a mix between a bribe to get my kids to eat their chicken pot pie (EWWWW, YUCK...It has VEGETABLES in it!. . . Kids are WACK.) and also a way to meet my need for something sweet for a quick minute.

Anyway, while I was making them I was thinking about the season and about how there are so many upcoming birthdays. Danny's is Nov 1st (and then we've got some family all up in that in between) and then Jadon (Dec 10th) & Micah (Jan 19). . .

Originally, I thought about combining their birthdays & doing just one big party. I thought about Green Meadows Petting Farm, which is over an hour away but is really great. You go on like a 2 hour tour through this farm with friendly animals. You get to chase & hold chickens & dugs, milk a cow, and go on a hayride, horse ride, and a train ride. We've been there once. But then as I was looking at the colors in the cookies, I was thinking about how much Jadon loves comics. Not really like Super Hero per se, but he loves Captain Underpants & he loves to read the comics in the Sunday paper. He would freak out if I could throw him a Comic themed party. He spends most of his time making comics, at school & home. We've even had a few notes from his teacher because he would turn letters into comics... like one time he was practicing the letter "f" and he made it into an evolving flower, which we thought was very creative despite the comment in bold red letters saying "NO DRAWING-PLEASE PRACTICE LETTERS!"

Anyway, there's not much out there for themes like this. If you go with something like this you pretty much have to come up with everything and it's totally unique... it isn't matchy-matchy like most party themes. I thought about blue & white polka dot tablecloth with Sunday comic papers down the middle of the table, and on top of that I have no idea... just making our own decorations as cool as possible. And maybe since it's comic themed, every kid comes as their own comic character. (They can make up their name & be whatever they want). That's a pretty cheap alternative since they can add on all the dollar store crap they want to be a unique character. Jadon would probably want to be Captain Underpants. And of course, we would play some games (something we've never done at any of our other bday parties).

Sometimes it sucks a little that both of their bdays are in the winter though. In Florida, we get alot of warm days in December, but sometimes they're windy and all the stuff wants to blow off of the tables if it's outdoors. I don't have a big enough space in the house to pull it off. Welps, I'm just rambling but I wanted to get my thoughts out there, floating around. . . :)