because June birthdays deserve a little school celebration too...

First things first, how about a sweet pic of our almost three year old little boy in all his candle-blowing splendor...be still my heart.

Oh, how I love this little boy!

He was set on "astronaut" for his school birthday celebration for the longest time.  I had the cutest spaceship cake in mind.  That is until last Friday when he suddenly switched to Disney Cars and would have nothing to do with astronaut. Ugh!

But I'm learning to just roll with it, so Cars it was.
Cars cupcake cake.
Cars plates.
Cars napkins.
Cars, Cars, Cars.
{I know, I know, I can't believe it either}
But just look how he's studying his Cars cake for the first time!
I just had to!

But I had to draw the line at "Cars t-shirt". 
I tried. 
I really did. 
But they were so ugly with their puffy paint-like designs 
{sorry if I offend anyone}. 
I just couldn't do it. 

So Friday night I appliqued a little car shirt for him and finished hand-stitching it, oh, about 2am this morning.  My single, desperate attempt at preserving some sort of homemade feel to the whole shindig...to reconcile my mama heart that I was getting to make, not buy, something for my baby boy who is growing up much too fast.

He pointed to his shirt and said, "This car is my two favorite colors...orange and blue. I love it!" I know, I know, just a simple observation to most. I know he'll forget the shirt and I know there will be many more commercialized birthdays to come. But what I hope he remembers is this...I hope he remembers that his mama embraced the way God made her and used that to do little things to make his day special.

And special it was.  Full of sticky blue buttercream smiles and "yum, yum, yums".

And adorable little friends...

And Mimi who was in town and able to stop by...

And in the end our soon-to-be three year old felt special on his un-birthday birthday.

And that's what it's all about.
Cars theme and all ;)

Happy almost birthday, Hudson!!
{just 5 more weeks!}