New Things are Fun!

Decided to start a blog today! I am very excited. I hope to write about our family adventures and daily happenings. With a baby around there is plenty of excitement around here to talk about!

Today we went to the park and to party city to pick up some last minute details for Anthony's first birthday party which is on Saturday!

Anthony's party is going to be Sesame Street theme.

Decorations: My older sister and I made a birthday banner and door sign the other weekend, they both turned out very cute! I am going to cut out the shape of Big Bird's feet out of poster foam and place them on the stairs going into the house. I bought streamers and going to tie balloons around a small Elmo and Cookie Monster to use as a center piece.

For games: Since Anthony is still young and can't really play any games yet, I have decided to get a cookie jar and fill with cookies and have the adults guess how many are inside. Who ever guesses the correct amount wins the cookie jar! We will also be painting 4x6 5x7 & 8x10 canvas to go on Anthony's wall in his room. I haven't quite decided what I am going to ask the adults to paint on them yet. I was thinking about either the theme, "paint what you think Anthony will grow up to be" or "inspirational words/quotes".

Clothes: Anthony is going to wear a shirt that I ironed on a cookie monster face and wrote "Birthday Monster" on the front and "Anthony 1" on the back(I had to buy a white girl tshirt for him since I couldn't find a boy tshirt without a pocket on the front, hopefully no-one will notice, LOL). My husband is wearing a shirt that says "D is for Daddy" and mine says, "M is for Mommy".

Thank You: I made candy wrappers and wrapped a hersey bar inside to give as a "thank you gift". I am also thinking about printing out some 4x6 photos and putting them in a picture frame and giving them as a gift also.

Cake: The cake is going to be really cute! I wish I had a picture to show, I will post it after the party on Saturday! It is going to be blue/white marble batter inside with white icing on the outside & blue, yellow, red and green dots all around w/ elmo, cookie monster, and bidbirds face on it. It's also going to have half a cake ontop with the Sesame Street sign with the #1 and Anthony written on it. For Anthony's smash cake, I originally decided to have a 5in round cake decorated as a cookie to go with his cookie monster shirt but I have recently decided that I want the smash cake to be cookie monster instead. I'm still waiting on the cake lady to let me know if it's possible to change this late or not.

Ok, well, that's it for now!

Chandra