Ok, so I have found myself spending a small fortune on our son's 3rd birthday party, which is still 2 weeks away. My birthday parties were legendary when I was young, my mother still maintains she was the first person to invent party boxes, containing the party meal in one!

Thanks to Pinterest, I now have a million and one ideas for his Wonder Pets inspired party!

A quick blast up the motorway to Hobbycraft at Cribbs Causeway earlier this evening, and we are almost set!

I have party bag favours ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous, all of which I hope will result in squeals of delight from his 28 guests! 28 - good grief!

So here is the party explosion in our lounge....

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Stay tuned for the next instalment of the party preparations. I have fibre pots from B & Q to make as snack pots, artificial flower oasis for place settings and sandwich flags for superhero sandwich towers!

p.s I treated myself to a new dress for the party! That is allowed right? For all my hard work?!

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My friend made a delicious pastry tray bake last week, as the adults party food, at her son's 3rd birthday party. I couldn't believe it when she said the kids wolf it down, so I thought why not give it a go!

My big boy has never eaten sun dried tomatoes or pesto so I expected to get a "urgh, it's yucky" reaction, but instead I got a clean plate!

An easy, quick lunch and great for hiding things they may say they don't like, but really it is just the look of them, or haven't tried before!

You will need: ready to roll puff pastry, tomato puree, pesto, sundried tomatoes, mozzarella.

Cut your rectangle of pastry and score a 2cm border around the edge.

Spread your puree and pesto inside the border, add the sundried tomatoes and mozzarella, and if you fancy, lay strips of pastry over the top.

Oven bake for 15 mins at 200 degrees.

You could make a large one for a family lunch or mini ones for kid's parties!

Delicious!

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Inspired by Cheri at I am a Momma hear me Roar, when small boy slept this morning, big boy and I did some writing in custard! Cheri used a coloured pudding they have in the States but I just used a bit of food colouring in regular pre made custard.

I drew the letters underneath on the paper plates as he is not quite 3 and whilst he recognises some letters he is not capable of writing them by himself.

We then went through what the letters stand for ... G for Granny, G for glasses .....

Of course he ended up eating it after a few tries but that was half the fun!

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