Come flutter on over....

Today we had a birthday party for Emma. After discussing different "theme" ideas with her, we settled on butterflies. She thought it would be cool to have a butterfly cake and I thought I could come up with enough activities surrounding butterflies.

We started out with a butterfly coloring page. It's always interesting to see how different children approach coloring. Some of the kids were done practically as soon as they sat down, while others could have stayed for another 10-15 more minutes!

We always seem to do a "Pin the... on the..." activity. This time is was "Pin the antenna on the butterfly"!

A few other crafts:

I'm going to do another post about these ones!

and it was on to some presents. We were struggling with ideas for a fun gift for Emma. We wanted something that would get some use, not noisy and was somewhat practical. We decided on a mini-trampoline! She loves it and so does everyone else.

And cake! I had grand plans when it came to the cake, but instead this is what she got, a scary version of a butterfly! I called it my own version of a Cake Wreck!

At least it tasted good!

If I ever do another butterfly themed event I'm totally making these instead! They're super cute!!
They're from here.
It was a great birthday party, followed by a pretty lazy day, Burger King for dinner and Monsters vs. Aliens was the movie for the evening!
Happy Birthday Emma!!