Happy Birthday, Owen!

Three years ago tomorrow, Owen was born after, um, well quite a labor. This year we celebrated the anniversary with friends and an egg hunt.
Owen enjoyed helping with the preparations from making the invitations

to making

Orange Goo
1.5 cups water
1.5 T. borax
1.5 cups white glue
1.5 cups water
red and yellow food coloring
Mix 1.5 cups water and borax. Mix glue, remaining water, and dye. Combine borax and glue solutions and stir. Store in an airtight container (such as plastic easter eggs).





to dying lots of eggs,

making multi-colored crayons, and stuffing the goody bags for his friends (and him too) with the crafted loot.
While we were shopping, I told Owen we were looking for food dye for the eggs and goo. He very seriously asked me if it was food and could we eat it. That was complicated to explain that while it is meant for dying food, it is not food, and we don't really need to eat it.
I bought 5 dozen with the intention of saving part of them for craft projects during the party. Only after the fun of decorating them all did I realize I had to head back the store to get ones for the activities. Oops!
Here they are before they were hidden Saturday morning:

We did some regular dyed ones in primary and secondary colors, "tie dyed" ones (to the right), and a few cracked ones decorated with tissue paper to look like stained glass.

Owen and seven friends with accompanying parents and infant siblings hunted eggs in the back yard of our apartment building.

We also had crafts:
"stained glass" tissue paper eggs,

egg dying,

and egg head planters with marigold seeds (which sprouted in 3 days in our tester - that's 2 days faster than the package said!).

As Owen requested we had prosciutto and fruit. We also had veggies with soft goat cheese and hummus, deviled eggs, and goat cheeses in addition to the GF brownies (from a mix ;o)) with raspberry sauce.

Owen enjoyed opening the gifts his friends chose before they all headed home.

Not pictured are Owen's friends (in close-up), the crayons, or the dozen orange balloons.