Showing posts with label 1st birthday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1st birthday. Show all posts
"Happy Birthday"
>> Tuesday, May 18, 2010
"Happy birthday to you..."
"Happy birthday to you..."
"Happy birthday, dear Andrew..."
"Happy birthday to you!"
Yes, he touched the flame. I'm a bad mommy.
I hesitated a moment before setting the cake in front of him, but I figured I could keep his hands away for the duration of "Happy Birthday." It's a short song, right? I pulled his hand away twice before he got past me and burnt his poor little finger. Actually, his finger was fine. I think he was just shocked. But it ruined the moment and the whole cake experience.
I'm going to recreate the smash cake and try it again on his actual birthday. I NEED to get some good cake-smashing photos!
Birthday party
We celebrated Andrew's birthday at our apartment with a few friends and relatives on Saturday. It was an awkward affair. Andrew was having a rare miserable day (teething and constipated, poor thing) and clung to me and cried a lot. Our guests — about a dozen people drawn from different aspects of our lives — mostly did not mingle but sat quietly looking bored. I don't really blame them; I know the onus is on me as hostess to keep everyone entertained, although I wish certain individuals had made a little more effort (and I sincerely thank our two outgoing friends who did their best to break some ice). The only trick up my sleeve, besides Andrew, who was little help that day, was the five-minute year-in-review slideshow I made (which I will post here later this week). All I can say is that we will not be having another party like that if I can help it.
Even the pictures are a disappointment. Andrew is not smiling in a single shot. The props are the highlights. I'm so glad I went with a cute theme: it's called "mod monkey." Instead of buying a banner I made the little wall display on the right out of cardstock. It went above the couch. The two monkey heads will probably find a home in Andrew's room after his birthday.
Andrew adored the balloons. He kept pointing at them and wanting to touch them. At one point he batted them all around — most fun he had all day. Several days later, he's still obsessed with them.
But best of all, I am SUPER proud of the cake I made. I had no previous decorating experience and learned several new tricks to accomplish this beauty. It's a three-layer banana cake (monkeys...bananas...get it?) with chocolate-banana filling, buttercream frosting, and fondant decorations. I also made a little matching smash cake.
This is the smiliest pic we got of the birthday boy. I love his monkey shirt!
Party planning
>> Saturday, April 24, 2010
Andrew's birthday is in less than a month, so I need to get busy planning some sort of celebration. In an ideal world, I would gather everyone who loves him — all our closest family and friends — in our backyard for a fun BBQ. In reality, that's not possible, not least because we don't have a backyard, only a balcony. My husband's family lives here in town, but most of my family lives two hours away, and except for my mom they aren't likely to make the trip. Also, my parents are not together, and my dad's wife makes friendly relations between them impossible. So what are we supposed to do? Have three parties to accommodate everyone? I don't think so.
What we are going to do, I guess, is have my husband's parents and siblings, my mom, my cousin (who lives in town), and hopefully a couple of friends over for an afternoon. It'll be a low-key affair, but I still want it to be special. So far I've spent hours scouring the net for the right party theme. I'm planning to make my first foray into cake decorating. I've purchased not one but TWO first birthday shirts. (The second one was just too adorable to resist.)
Anyway. There's quite a lot to do in the next three weeks. I suppose I should have started planning sooner, but man... I just can't believe my baby is turning one already.
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