Birthday ideas

Looking for theme ideas for my kids. I think Casey’s will probably be ‘caterpillar’… because.. you know. duh. Brennan really loves her stuffed pig… REALLY. She wants to take him everywhere.. so I’m thinking something pig-gy for her. But Keeley.. well we’ve done:

1. one

2. who’s two (owl)

3. pirate

4. princess

5. roundup (horse)

 

I’m not sure whether we’ll let her have ‘friends’ over or not, she’ll be in school for her birthday this fall. I don’t want 20 kids running full tilt, but I’m not sure how the school handles birthday party invites or if they even care. We definitely won’t have them over when family is, because that’s just too much, our family is too big…wondering what other people do.

So anyway…thoughts? I saw something about a mad hatter tea party on pinterest and different teacups..which would be pretty neat. I know other kids around the same age have done ‘rainbow’ and ‘unicorn’ or ‘my little pony’ or ‘hello kitty’…then there’s always ‘any’ disney/princess or character like Doc McStuffins (she’s a doctor for stuffed animals and toys you know)… we have years of 3 girls to go through…so I want to try and not duplicate overly much, while still allowing Keeley to have something she likes.. obviously she wanted years 4 and 5…she tried changing her mind last year the day BEFORE her party and it was like.. um.. no. I already had everything bought–which wasn’t much, for sure, a couple of cake toppers/toys and a balloon, but still.

Anyone have any great ideas? I think when she’s a bit older but still in grade school I’d love to do something Halloween-y, but not at Kindergarten level…would love some ideas.. they can be completely general…basically just balloon for her chair and something to make the cake ‘into’….

Please?