This is not a travel post but I couldn’t resist posting Alara’s 3rd birthday party which was a itsy bitsy spider theme. For whatever reason Alara was obsessed with itsy bitsy spider and spiders in general. When her birthday came around it was clear we needed to use that as a theme. We had the party at my parents’ backyard and it ended up being a perfect summer day.
We bought Alara’s cake at Market Basket and it came out perfect. It must have been a weird request for them to do an itsy bitsy spider cake, and I gave them little direction, but it came out great nonetheless.
Alara was surrounded by family and friends with a kiddie pool and bouncy castle. I bought a sun balloon from Party City, used white balloons as clouds and did some arts and crafts for the rain and spider. There were smaller crafted spiders decorating the table and I had printed out coloring pages from here and there.
After the kids played in the pool, bouncy castle and ate some grilled food cooked by vovo, it was time for cake!
Alara of course had to have the spider as her piece.
Adam had a great time at the party as well!
The rest of the summer of 2016 was spent locally, primarily at the beach, until we were ready for our first trip.
Alara & Adam Travels 