We had a small party at our house on their birthday, Saturday, March 28th! Both of our parents flew in for the occassion. We thought for a while that we might have to cancel the party because Alex was sick the week leading up to the party and luckily Ben's mom was nice enough to fly out early to watch Alex so that Ben and I didn't have to miss anymore work!
The guests arrived around 1, and of course all the kids decided it was nap time! So the party turned into an adult gathering for the first 30 - 45 minutes, and I am not complaining about that!
I spent weeks trying to figure out how I could decorate the cakes for the kids. All I could come up with was Winnie the Pooh characters and I didn't want to do that again since that is what we did for Halloween. So I decided to just make two round cakes (one yellow and one chocolate) and decorate them as if they were an M&M. I ordered personalized M&M's that said "Alex is ONE", and "Olivia is ONE", and bordered the cakes with the M&M's.
I bought some birthday hats for Alex and Olivia to wear. I figured Alex would hate his, and as for Olivia I wasn't sure. I put one on Olivia in the morning before the party and she LOVED it! She was wearing around the house for a good hour! It was so cute!
Before we started to sing Happy Birthday to the kids, I put their hats on. Olivia didn't mind, but as I figured Alex hated it and started to cry!
We gave them each a piece of cake to eat. Olivia got the chocolate cake as I thought it went better with pink icing. She went to town on her cake and seemed to like it a lot and was pretty neat with it. Alex, who had the yellow cake, was just picking at his and not eating very much of it. I gave him a piece of the chocolate cake thinking maybe he didn't like yellow cake. He took the chocolate cake and immediately threw it on the floor as if he was saying "I don't want that, it's not my cake!".
Although Olivia was very interested in the pile of presents in the morning before the party but when it came to open the gifts, neither Alex nor Olivia were interested. Ben and I opened their gifts for them. They got a lot of really nice gifts of clothes and toys!
The balloons were also a big hit with both kids! It was a nice way to cheer them up as they were coming down from their sugar highs!
Thank you to everyone who helped make Alex and Olivia's 1st birthday a special one!
1 comment:
I can't believe they are one already. . .SLOW DOWN, KIDS!!! I haven't even gotten to meet you yet! :) Seriously, though, their birthday looks like it was so much fun. I love the cakes, Jackie! That is so creative! And at least one of the two wanted to eat it, so that's not bad! I wish I could have been there to celebrate with you.
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