Aarrhhh...Pirates!

Beth has chosen a pirate theme for Colm's birthday party which is tomorrow.


















We've been ramping up for this event for some time now...check out the invitation that Beth created. There will be six kids all told.






We got supplies a week ago and since then Beth has been masterminding the preparations, antiquing the invitations with candles and tea, planning the treasure hunt and the games, painting a parrot pinata, making hats and treasure chests, presiding over sword play practice, experimenting with eye patch designs, putting shovels in the kids' hands and urging them on to deeper depths of treasure hunting and generally communicating in that snarling dialect we fancy as pirate talk... too much fun really to reserve simply for a single day.

We looked at Colm at the dinner table tonight and realized this was the last time we'd ever see him at three years old...sigh...of course the facial hair painting doesn't help.
K