Fun with the Fords: Lexie's Seussical 3rd Birthday

Choosing a theme for Lexie's 3rd Birthday came to me very easily. Every night before bed she gets to choose 2 or 3 books for either mommy or daddy to read to her. Almost always those books are by none other than Dr. Seuss. Trey and I can pretty much recite Go, Dog, Go!, Marvin K Mooney Will You Please Go Now, Big Dog...Little Dog and the list goes on, you get the idea! At first I thought let's focus on just one of the books, but which one, it was too hard to choose so instead we decided to go with all things Seuss.

My first stop on the road to planning was to find a really fun invitation so I turned to one of my favorite sites ETSY. I love, love, love this site. I wish I were as creative and talented as the sellers on there. After much searching I settled on this design.

I chose this invitation because I loved the iconic hat from Cat in the Hat as well as the color scheme and not to mention classic Seuss wording.

Next was deciding on a location. This was the first birthday where we decided to invite some of her school and church friends, so I wanted a place where the kids could let loose and have fun. STJ's was the perfect spot because the kids and the parents could both jump/slide and everyone had an absolute blast!

My next task was to come up with a menu, my goal, to be Seuss inspired. Lexie is a pretty picky eater so I wanted to stick with her favorites. Green Eggs and Ham is synonymous with Dr. Seuss, the only problem, Lexie won't eat eggs or ham! However, she will eat pretzels, M&M's and chocolate, put them all together and you get Green Eggs and Bacon.


I borrowed the idea from this creative girl

One of her favorite snacks is cheese cubes and wheat thins, so borrowing from the book Fox in Socks I decided to add Three Cheese Trees to the menu. I took 3 styrofoam cones, painted them green, and then used tooth picks to attach cheese cubes, which gave the impression of leaves on a tree.

Since the party was during dinner we needed some sort of heavier food and most kids love chicken nuggets, so we got some popcorn chicken, served it in a movie theater sized popcorn container and named it "Hop on Pop" Corn Chicken. Lexie's favorite fruits include strawberries, blueberries and grapes, we put them on small skewers and called them Truffula (from The Lorax) Berries.

We rounded out the party's menu with some colored goldfish and called them "One Fish, Two Fish", some pink lemonade, which we named Yink's Pink Ink Drink (also from Fox in Socks) and of course cupcakes! A special thanks to my sister, Krystal, who helped me create some decorative cake plate wraps out of foam stickers, ribbon and scrapbooking paper.

To help the Party Room at STJ's feel more Seussical I put light blue plastic tablecloths on the remaining tables along with vases filled with blue or red paper as well as ribbons and more foam stickers. Then we dropped screws and washers tied with balloon ribbons into the vases so it appeared if the balloons were coming out of the centerpiece. In addition, we displayed new Dr. Seuss board books for the girls to add to their collection.

I was really excited how all the decorations and food turned out! My mom and sister really helped me piece together the ideas in my head and make them party ready. Thank you so much!

The party was a success. Lexie had so much fun, she still talks about her birthday at the bouncy place. Thank you to all our friends and family for helping us celebrate 3 wonderful years with our blessing from God! She is one of a kind! Here are a few more pictures from the festivities.