Our Lil’ Entertainer wanted a ‘flag’ themed birthday. His two favorite images in life, the Cross and the American Flag. At first he wanted a Curious George / Construction theme and had his cake all figured out. We would do a triangle cake – one side Curious George, the other Construction workers with a pile of crackers to dig like last year. But when he got to Party City and saw the Red/White/Blue Uncle Sam sequins hat he completely changed his theme to a Flag Birthday party! (Thank goodness! lol). A flag cake is much easier to make.

His birthday wish list consisted of:

Anything Curious George
A worker man set with wrenches, screw drivers, etc.
A Flag pole – one that he can put in the yard and see from his bed
A jacket like that guy that danced on the cieling (Fred Astaire in Royal Wedding)
A black bowtie
manual typewriter
and Boxing Gloves.

Thanks to Grandma’s and Stimulus checks – he got everything on his list! lol

I made him a tuxedo with tails (Grandma bought him a boutonniere for it), curious george sleeping shorts and pants and a pig in a blanket. The blanket has a crocheted pig head, crocheted pig feet attached on either side of the head and at opposite corner of the blanket – and a really fun curly-q pig tail crocheted and sewn to the bottom corner. It has minky polka-dot fabric on one side and polka-dot cotton on the other. I made a matching round minky pillow to go with it (the belly).

He had a really great birthday and now Daddy just has to get a clear day to ‘plant’ the 20ft flagpole! lol

Here’s the images from his birthday with one of his baby pictures. Oh, I miss cuddling those sweet, drooling little babies. *sniff* Still, what wonderful young people they are to be with!

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For his hats, we got some terry lined, yellow (his favorite color) tennis visors. We photo-shopped the Curious George Happy Birthday picture with the name of each party goer, so the hat’s show a head-shot of George, streamers and balloons with the word “Curious” and personalized with the party goer’s name in classic red.

His father and brothers built the birdhouse and I crocheted birds to put in it (the patterns are available at http://www.e-patternscentral.com/

All in all – he had a great day and his brothers have asked for lots more birds. So, as I’m off to make more birds – you may consider doing them as well. They make great yarn scrap fodder and the kids love them.