baby's first birthday

Before I post the details from the baby's birthday party I wanted to share how we spent his actual day.  I didn't have anything specific planned, besides school and story time for the older two.  And speaking of the older two, they were SO excited that it was their little brothers birthday.  I thought it only fitting to let them help with the celebration.

                          We started the morning with some cinnamon buns shaped like hearts.  Since it was a school day I used the store bough kind, but put them in some silicone heart shaped pans to make them a little more special!

 

He opened some presents.

We all snuggled up and read this:

And then, instead of cupcakes I thought it would be fun to make some tiny cakes. My older two enjoyed decorating their own.  I decorated the baby's.  It was a lovely day to celebrate a very important day for our family.

that's a wrap

My baby is one today!  I still can't believe it.  I was having a hard time deciding about what to get him since he is our third child and we just celebrated Christmas.  His older sister (age five) decided that the perfect gift would be a jack in the box.  We found this Eric Carle one and I have to say that it is darling.  The box is tin and it has a soft caterpillar inside that pops out after the song plays "pop" goes the weasel.  I love that my daughter thought of this gift all by herself.  It was the perfect gift for a one year old.

baby a

Here is another simple and sweet decoration I made for the babies party this weekend.  His first name starts with the letter A so we always call him Baby A. I knew I wanted to use that for some sort of  decoration at his party.  You can buy paper mache letters at Joann Fabrics in different sizes.  I used some for my parents surprise anniversary picnic that you can see here.  I used gold glitter on them and had planned to use white glitter on the A, but I didn't like how it looked on the brown background.   Instead I just wrapped the entire letter with some white yarn that I had in the house and I like it even better than the glitter!  I love when that happens.  Now if only if I could make it snow this weekend in Connecticut......