Okay, we’re sooo late in posting this, so instead of back-dating this entry, I’m moving it right to the top!
Our baby Kansas turned the big 0-1 on February 18th! What a huge year! And what better way to celebrate a huge year than to have a huge party!
Thanks to the generosity of others and our incredible lack of willpower inside Babies R Us, we were practically bursting at the seams with Fisher-Price, V-Tech, Melissa & Doug and Playskool. This kid had enough toys! We knew we wanted to have a storybook themed party, and we knew we wanted to encourage attendees to give only books as gifts for Kansas so we could get a head start on building her library. What we didn’t know was how much fun we would have in the party planning process!
Our storybook themed party eventually gave way to a more specific theme: The Very Hungry Caterpillar. From Etsy and Flickr to personal blogs, we were blown away at how many places we found to draw inspiration (and, admittedly, copyright violations) for this party.
Enough yammering, I’ll let the pictures do the talking!
Our very hungry caterpillar happy birthday banner and cupcakes for everyone!
Close up of the cupcakes.
Gift bags for our party-goers.
Our caterpillar-esque photo timeline of Kansas. We took her picture on the 18th of every month starting from March 2010 to February 2011. It’s hard to see in this photo, but she chunked up LIKE CRAZY from month 3 to month 4.
Our caterpillar kebobs. Yummy!
A Kansas-sized birthday smash cake for the birthday girl.
We had a craft station set up so the kids could make their own hungry caterpillar bookmarks using the best tools they had — their thumb and fingertips!
How about some pictures of the birthday girl?!
“Does this cake make me look fat?”
Great grandma Nani Buns trying to steal some cake!
“I’m savoring every bite of this amazing stuff.”
That cake didn’t know what hit it.
Where’s Kansas?
Let’s play!!
THE END.
(View the rest of the birthday pictures at our smugmug gallery, here!)
[...] was such a crazy blur. Didn’t we just start this year a few minutes ago?! In February, Kansas celebrated the big 0-1 in style, and it seems like every day she’s been hitting new milestones and growing from our little [...]