Baseball Birthday Party

The past few months or so Madden has gotten more and more obsessed with baseball. He literally will only wear baseball shirts with athlete shorts (just like daddy!), his River Bandits baseball hat, and when asked what type of big boy room he wants, it's repeatedly a baseball room. He's constantly asking to go to the baseball field or play baseball. And he's always looking for one of his bats, balls to hit or asking anyone who comes over to play or pitch to him. 

So it was beyond clear for this 3rd birthday to make it a Baseball Birthday theme which we had this past Sunday afternoon. And boy was he more than ecstatic ALL week about having his friends over to play baseball!! 

Party Details

Theme: Baseball

Food: Hotdog and Nacho bar with all the toppings, plus assorted fruit and cake

Drinks: Bottled water, Gatorade, mini Pepsi and Diet Pepsi, Capri Suns, Beer

Decorations: Reused his birthday banners from his 1st birthday since they were the same colors

Location: Our backyard (even though it was a bit of a mess with our landscaping project delays

Games: Batting, Pitching and Sliding Practice

Cake: Homemade by me. 

Favors: Each child was able to take home their own bat with ball, a box of Cracker Jack and mini Baby Ruth's

Every time I asked Madden what kind of birthday cake he wanted he would tell me a baseball or a dinosaur cake so I decided to put those two together and here we have a T-Rex playing baseball!

The cake is a chocolate cake with peanut butter buttercream filling and vanilla buttercream frosting. Who doesn't love chocolate and peanut butter!?!?

Games included Sliding Practice via a slip 'n slide, Batting Practice via water balloons and Pitching Practice with empty Gatorade bottles.  

The Slip 'n Slide was a big hit!! I only wish they made much longer ones especially for the hills we have in our yard. We may have to start make-shifting them up like we did as kids with double slides and tarps. 

The water balloons were also a hit, however they always go way too fast!! The kids mainly just loves throwing them at the ground and watching them explode lol

The Birthday Boy!

His best CHEESE face

Time for Presents!

A little cousin cuddle and movie time to help wind down after a party and lots of sugar. 

And he's out for the count! Nothing like a 5:00pm nap :)

It was such a fun day!! The kids had a blast and Madden is still asking for his friends to come back over to play baseball again :)

Thank you to all of our family and friends for coming over to help celebrate MJ turning three!!