Critter Keeper Birthday Party!

Yesterday, we celebrated Caleb's birthday (again!) with a big party at our house.  Since Caleb loves all sorts of bugs, lizards, reptiles and other creatures, we booked the "Critter Keeper" to come and be the entertainment at his party.  It was awesome and he totally exceeded all of our expectations.  We had 20 kids at our house, which made a fun but wild party!

Randy, the Critter Keeper brought around 18 different creatures to show the kids.  He let the kids touch and hold many of the ones the brought.  He explained all about each creature, and he was very entertaining with different magic tricks that he did with the them.  He was really good!  A few times he would be holding a box with a creature in it, then pretend to trip and fall, drop the box and the creature would fly out and onto the floor.  Of course everyone would scream and jump back only to see that it was a fake spider or snake. It even scared the adults!

It really was such a fun, entertaining party and Caleb loved every minute of it.  We definitely made some memories that we will cherish for the rest of our lives!

Here are some pictures of some of the creatures that we got to see:



Here is our family holding a 60 pound albino python! 



The birthday boy himself holding his very first snake!



Kathryn really impressed us with her courage.  She touched and held every creature that she could and she wasn't the least bit afraid!  The Critter Keeper was so impressed with her!



Here he is explaining about this special lizard on the floor.  I can't remember what it was called, but it was really neat.  Caleb even got to feed it some worms.  He would hold the worm in his hand and the lizard would eye it and then all of a suddon stick it's tongue out really fast and grab the worm!

His presentation lasted almost an hour and a half.  The kids loved it!

Hissing cockroaches.  Yuck!

Here Caleb is holding a huge scorpian.  Each kid got to hold it and they got a special sticker to wear if they did.



Yes, this is a REAL tarantula.  It was huge and it's legs were moving.  No, the kids did NOT get to touch this thing.  I was ready for him to put it back in it's box!



This is an extremely dangerous cenitipede that Randy showed the kids.  It was long and had tons of legs.  It is so poisonous that he never gets it out of the box.  It gave me the creeps!

Randy even brought this cute little hedgehog!  It have never seen one in real life before.  We all got to touch it's prickly hairs!

Here is some sort of lizard.  It had big, beautiful big eyes that looked like they had eyelashes.  It would jump from his hands and really was pretty cute :)

This is Mr. Beasly, one of Randy's big iguanas.

I can't remember what this creature is called, but it was really fascinating.  It's skin looked and felt like it had tiny little beads all over it's body.

Caleb got to feel around in a bag and pull out this coral snake.  He wasn't a bit afraid!

Each kid got to hold out their hands and hold this ball python.  This was one of the creatures that Randy had rescued.

At the end of the presentation, the kids lined up to hold the big python, Julius Squeezer.

Each child got to have their picture taken with this huge snake!





Caleb was so excited about his cake.  I always love coming up with an idea for my children's birthday cakes each year and then making them.  Caleb's first request was that I make a Komodo Dragon cake for him.  After researching what they look like, I soon realized that was not an option!  So, he settled for an iguana on top.  It is all made out of cake and icing and it is all edible!  Caleb LOVED it and it made my all the work totally worth it :)



Happy 7th Birthday Caleb!