Yo Ho Ho...

... A Pirate's Life For Me

We had Jefferson's very first friend birthday party the week after Easter. He was beyond excited and talked about it every day. We decided on a Pirate Party and it was a hit. We played "X Marks the Spot" (modeled after Pin the Tail on the Donkey) and we had a Treasure Hunt. We had snacks and cake and goodie bags and they ran around outside playing with the toys that they had gotten for Jefferson. Good times were had by all.

This is the treasure map that I drew. It is still up because Jefferson will not let me take it down.

We got all the boys pirate hats and eye patches. They were completely adorable and had so much fun running around and talking like a pirate. They mostly kept singing, " Yo Ho Mateys Away". It took some work, but I finally convinced Jefferson that just because you have a patch over one eye does not mean that you cannot open your other eye. Here he is with his treasure map.

We got a sign for the door and Jefferson wanted to leave that up as well, but we only kept it up for the day. Here he is with his friend Gunner in their Pirate getup. Jefferson insisted on wearing his Halloween shirt due to that fact that it has pirate bones on it.

Here we are playing around while we wait on the rest of the boys. Addison was so good the whole time. I think she was in a kind of daze. She just kept looking around and checking things out.

We took a break after the treasure hunt to have some snacks.

We had Pirate Treasure Trail Mix, Pirate Ship Snackers, and Swords and Cannon Balls. The kids were so cute, they kept telling me that I had things wrong. I was telling them what we were eating and they were correcting me, like: Those are fish nets, they're pretzels or those aren't cannon balls, they're olives. It was cute and a lot of fun.

I also made these chocolate suckers from molds for the kids to take home with their treasure after the party.

For as long as this cake took me to cut and decorate, it sure doesn't look it. It looks pretty sad if you ask me, but the kids sure liked it and it did taste good.

Jefferson loved all his presents and had such a good time. It was so fun to have all those boys over, but man, by the time they left I was exhausted. We'll have to see what next year holds.