1st Birthday Party thread

[paloslee]

Feb 11, 2017 15:27:56 GMT -5 halfahippy said:

This stupid crappy weather! My cake smash photo shoot is going to be rescheduled because it's so nasty out. And I don't know if I have another time we can do it. And I ordered a cake for today. So sad.

Oh no. I'm sorry. Tomorrow might be better weather.

[halfahippy]

Feb 11, 2017 20:30:56 GMT -5 paloslee said:

Feb 11, 2017 15:27:56 GMT -5 halfahippy said:

This stupid crappy weather! My cake smash photo shoot is going to be rescheduled because it's so nasty out. And I don't know if I have another time we can do it. And I ordered a cake for today. So sad.

Oh no. I'm sorry. Tomorrow might be better weather.

She has to work tomorrow. We rescheduled for Monday afternoon. Hopefully the weather cooperates.

[arbe]

Jan 3, 2017 15:07:03 GMT -5 peachesncream said:

Meanwhile arbe is like "haha, see you suckers in this thread in 3 years!" :-P

Hahaha, so glad I saw this. I never use tapa & not much time at work.... so we are not having a "birthday" party. It's a rainbow & unicorn "one year older" party.
Mom is making a cake, here's her trial run

And we got this

[DanaScullyX]

Had an amazing party yesterday! The rain held off and about 85 people came. I was so tired but so happy and proud of my girl and how well it all went.

[arbe]

DanaScullyX looks great. Have to same tutu and shirt. May have to steal your shirt too. Where did you find it?

[DanaScullyX]

Feb 13, 2017 6:43:24 GMT -5 arbe said:

DanaScullyX looks great. Have to same tutu and shirt. May have to steal your shirt too. Where did you find it?

Etsy! I'll look for the link.

[SheilaTheTank]

Feb 9, 2017 8:15:25 GMT -5 jewel441 said:

Does anyone have/know of paint markers that write well on black paper? I got some at Michaels and they barely show up!

You can use a silver or gold sharpie. 

[SheilaTheTank]

DanaScullyX, I love the pictures. She looks like she had a blast!

In the last pic is that her choosing a career path? That's such a different and neat idea. Where did you come up with it?

[DanaScullyX]

arbe here's the shirt!

www.etsy.com/listing/490996122/rainbow-helvetica-typography-tshirt

[DanaScullyX]

Feb 13, 2017 10:48:07 GMT -5 SheilaTheTank said:

DanaScullyX, I love the pictures. She looks like she had a blast!

In the last pic is that her choosing a career path? That's such a different and neat idea. Where did you come up with it?

It's a tradition in many Asian cultures. She's wearing her traditional Korean Hanbok and which object she chooses is indeed supposed to signify her future path.

[paloslee]

DanaScullyX that's a cute tradition. And I cant believe you had 85 people! Whoa!

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Feb 13, 2017 11:49:15 GMT -5 DanaScullyX said:

Feb 13, 2017 10:48:07 GMT -5 SheilaTheTank said:

DanaScullyX , I love the pictures. She looks like she had a blast!

In the last pic is that her choosing a career path? That's such a different and neat idea. Where did you come up with it?

It's a tradition in many Asian cultures. She's wearing her traditional Korean Hanbok and which object she chooses is indeed supposed to signify her future path.

Well?? Which one did she choose?

[DanaScullyX]

Feb 13, 2017 11:56:41 GMT -5 @pugsandwine said:

Feb 13, 2017 11:49:15 GMT -5 DanaScullyX said:

It's a tradition in many Asian cultures. She's wearing her traditional Korean Hanbok and which object she chooses is indeed supposed to signify her future path.

Well?? Which one did she choose?

She was really tired, so she ignored it for a whole, then cried, and finally picked the pencil. So she'll be a scholar or author.

[SheilaTheTank]

Feb 13, 2017 11:49:15 GMT -5 DanaScullyX said:

Feb 13, 2017 10:48:07 GMT -5 SheilaTheTank said:

DanaScullyX , I love the pictures. She looks like she had a blast!

In the last pic is that her choosing a career path? That's such a different and neat idea. Where did you come up with it?

It's a tradition in many Asian cultures. She's wearing her traditional Korean Hanbok and which object she chooses is indeed supposed to signify her future path.

At first I thought it was a take on choosing the dalai lama. 

We had a Shinto blessing done a month after K was born and will do another blessing when she comes to her first important life event at age 3. I don't believe they we do anything like this though.  

[SheilaTheTank]

Feb 13, 2017 13:21:30 GMT -5 DanaScullyX said:

Feb 13, 2017 11:56:41 GMT -5 @pugsandwine said:

Well?? Which one did she choose?

She was really tired, so she ignored it for a whole, then cried, and finally picked the pencil. So she'll be a scholar or author.

Her reaction to picking a career is almost comically accurate to real life. "I don't want to grow up and be an adult. ok, fine. I'll just do this then." 

[megrae12]

DanaScullyX She looks so cute!!!

[halfahippy]

My sneak peaks! Argh! I love them so much! I can't wait to see the rest.

[paloslee]

halfahippy so beautiful! Glad the weather was cooperating

[DanaScullyX]

halfahippy so beautiful!

[peachesncream]

I panicked when I realized I only had 2.5 weeks left so I randomly chose the theme The Very Hungry Caterpillar and ordered her an outfit and highchair banner from Etsy. #secondchildprobz

[SheilaTheTank]

Feb 15, 2017 10:15:20 GMT -5 peachesncream said:

I panicked when I realized I only had 2.5 weeks left so I randomly chose the theme The Very Hungry Caterpillar and ordered her an outfit and highchair banner from Etsy. #secondchildprobz

We went to a party last weekened that was Eric Carle themed. She got all the stuff from oriental trading pretty inexpensively. She did subs and cupcakes and grape "worms" on a stick. It was super cute. 

[SheilaTheTank]

The house is decorated and I'm picking up the balloons this afternoon. Can't believe the party is tomorrow!

[rachelilly23]

Feb 15, 2017 10:15:20 GMT -5 peachesncream said:

I panicked when I realized I only had 2.5 weeks left so I randomly chose the theme The Very Hungry Caterpillar and ordered her an outfit and highchair banner from Etsy. #secondchildprobz

We did this theme for DS1's first birthday. It was awesome! I have an album in my photos on FB from way back if you want to check it out. I made cupcakes in the shape of the caterpillar 😊

[jewel441]

Are people doing gift bags? We have maybe like 6 or so babies her age or around her age coming and like 4 or so older kids ages 3-6.

[songbirdsinging55]

Feb 18, 2017 10:36:59 GMT -5 jewel441 said:

Are people doing gift bags? We have maybe like 6 or so babies her age or around her age coming and like 4 or so older kids ages 3-6.

Yes to gift bags here but baby friendly things. I am thinking bubbles, rubber duckies or water toys and fruit squeezes.

[jewel441]

Feb 18, 2017 11:13:11 GMT -5 songbirdsinging55 said:

Feb 18, 2017 10:36:59 GMT -5 jewel441 said:

Are people doing gift bags? We have maybe like 6 or so babies her age or around her age coming and like 4 or so older kids ages 3-6.

Yes to gift bags here but baby friendly things. I am thinking bubbles, rubber duckies or water toys and fruit squeezes.

Bubbles are such a good idea! For all ages

[DanaScullyX]

I did gift bags for kids ages 2-10. We had 3 babies under age 1 and I have them a book and a teether.

[Missy0483]

No gift bags. They're so annoying to me and a lot of work to get together. We have SO many kids coming and all a wide range of ages. It will get really expensive and I don't want to just get cheesy junk. I bought a lot of candy that matches our theme so at least we have that.

[jewel441]

I ended up going with bubbles, bandanas and a fish that squirts water, figure that's fine for all the ages

[carissa325]

Other than C all the kids are between 2-8. I got star shaped crayons from Etsy and a coloring book for each of them.