Addi's 4th Birthday

Addi HAD to have a Scooby Doo birthday party. She is obsessed with the whole gang. And actually, she likes Scooby the least because he's not pink.

My cute birthday girls who loves to strike a pose!

Here's the goodie table

with the Scooby snacks, of course

The first thing we did was color t-shirts that had the whole scooby gang on them. This was no small endeavor. It took me forever to iron on! I even burned my bathroom counter. (That makes 2 burnt counters in my lifetime.) But it was worth it!

Jinkies! Velma lost her glasses! They were hidden all over the kitchen and then they played "Pin the Glasses on Velma".

Next, Shaggy was hungry for scooby snacks, so we fed him PLENTY of snacks. The kids really loved this game. We put the line close enough so the kids were all getting them in his mouth. I think they were proud they could do it. Haha. (And I was proud of my drawings!)

I can't believe that they make Scooby pinatas! It was hard to figure out what games to play for a scooby party. Thank goodness for this pinata. This one was a hit! (haha no pun intended).

We had our traditional Little Cesaer's pizza.

Next we went to open presents, but they were missing! Gang, it looks like we've got a mystery to solve! The birthday phantom had stolen them! NO matter how much we told the kids that he was a really nice phantom, we still had some kids way too scared to even help us figure out the mystery.

We searched for clues in each room that finally led to the phantom (our neighbor Casjen) hiding in the bathtub with all the gifts. He had a white sheet draped over him. We snuck up on him and then ran back downstairs to devise a plan to trap him. We set up one more birthday present and called him down. All the kids were hiding behind the couch. The only two brave enough to watch were Alyssa and Addi.

When the phantom came down to get the last present, we trapped him! We took off the sheet to reveal who our phantom was! Casjen said, "I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids!" Addi was in shock and was so excited! We had two kids with tears of joy and relief. It was pretty funny. We got it all on video, so no pics of this part of the party.

Excited to open gifts!

Ben enjoyed his cupcake even though he got booted to the floor.

And finally we played Scooby, Scooby, Phantom (duck, duck, goose) and Freeze Dance to the Scooby Doo theme song. They wanted to dance forever! The kids were having a blast and screaming so loud. At this point, I was ready for the dance party to be over!

These last two pictures show Alyssa playing duck, duck, goose with Addi and the kids cracking up at her. She was saying silly things each time she ducked a kids head. They were dying laughing at her. Alyssa was in her glory. She kept going around for awhile as she enjoyed all the attention. Too funny!

Below is the mysterious floating bat. It took me awhile to figure that mystery out.

After the party, we had our own little family party. Addi waited all day to open her gifts. We wanted to wait for dad to come home. She was okay with that because I let her open two Scooby Doo DVDs in the morning and she carried them around with her all day. (Don't ask me why this is underlined! I can't get it off!)

I think this was one of her favorite gifts!

Whew! I made it through the day! I feel like a free woman now!