Claire's 4th Birthday Party

We had Claire's 4th birthday party on the January 6th this year.  This is the first time she's had a party with friends (we waited until the 4th birthday party for E and H too) and she was super excited about it!  We had it in the AWANA room at our church and had a Doc McStuffins theme.  I possibly would have been okay without having a theme, but Emily and Hannah wouldn't hear of it. They first wanted the party to be an Olivia (the book character) party, but when I couldn't find any Olivia party supplies they wanted to switch to Strawberry Shortcake and surprisingly enough I couldn't find much of that stuff either. I started planning the party decorations and food about 3 days before the party (this is typical for me), so that probably limited me in where I could order supplies.  I ended up just going to Party City and decided we'd go with Doc since they had plenty of Doc stuff and she likes Doc.  Win-win.  

Some of the decorations...

Team Watts before we got started....

While everyone was getting there we let them just run around and play with balloons.  

Then we played a few games, which Bert was in charge of explaining.  He does such a good job of making it sound even more fun and exciting than it is.  He doesn't mind being silly in front of everyone. Ha! 

We played a "cast" game where they had to get a partner and put a cast on their arm or leg.  

Jacob kept pretending he was sick and would let the other kids come fix him.  Funny boy!  

Bert was explaining a relay game in this one.  If you can zoom in on Emily's face it is so funny.  He must have said something that embarrassed her (not hard) because she has her hand over her face and is rolling her eyes.  Ha! 

They also played "Pin the Button on Chilly" which was probably the biggest hit of all, but I don't have a picture of that game. 

I loved Claire's facial expression while her friends were singing to her, and sweet Hannah looks so excited.   

Opening gifts was chaotic as they wanted to be on top of each other to try to all see the gift she was opening at the same time, but Claire definitely didn't mind.  

Papa took off work to come to Claire's afternoon party.  You can see the goose egg Abby got on her forehead earlier that afternoon, when she fell just before the party started.  

Claire loved this pillow that she got from her friend Jazmine.  She sleeps on it every night.  

We LOVED celebrating our sweet Claire, what a precious gift she is to all of us!