Maya turns 4 - Birthday Party!

This month Maya turned 4 years old. She is quite spunky, loves to be in charge (and hates it when she's not), can be very sweet and responsible, still loves to dance and sing, is the most princessy princess in all the land, can spell her name (and "boo"), and surprises us daily with her knowledge. She is very curious and asks a LOT of questions. "Mom, can you show me a picture of the inside of an octopus? What does a brain look like? What is inside of our bones? What happens when there is a hurricane?" Google helps me out a lot.

We had a small family party for her on the evening of her birthday with gifts, dinner, and cake. She asked for Macaroni and Cheese Soup (yay velveeta!.....). She is so excited to be 4, she tells everyone she sees, "I'm four now!" - including the FedEx guy leaving a package on our doorstep.

This year we treated her with her first official birthday party. We kept it pretty small and the kids had a great time! Since she loves to draw and color, we decided to do an Art themed birthday.

 The morning of her birthday she set out her outfit. She got the wings from a family friend.

I set out some fruit and other snacks in lots of colors (art!) for the cute girls coming over.

The main activity of the party was to paint their own canvas. 

There was a dance party, of course. 

Painting was a hit! Everybody got to choose a few colors and smear it all around.

A little spot of paint landed on Maya's face when I opened a bottle. I'm glad it wasn't much higher!

After painting and snacks we did face drawing with watercolor crayons. 

The final activity was to decorate their own cupcakes. I made rainbow cupcakes with whipped cream cheese frosting (and only put 3 candles on it to begin with. Denial much?). I put them on a painter's palette with different sprinkles in the paint holes. The girls loved decorating them and then eating the frosting! The cupcakes mostly went in the trashcan. :( 

The finished painting projects! Turned out so cute and fun!

Maya got a lot of art themed presents as well. She got this easel from Nana and Papa and loves it.

Maya's talents are really flourishing and she is a very fun girl to watch grow up! Happy birthday, sweet girl!!