Tell Me About Your LO 1st B-Day Party

[MindyLuvsMickey]

No, you could use those though. I used fondant (made my own from marshmallows). Shaped them and then painted a little brown food coloring on the tips. Everyone was freaking out about them but, they were really easy.

Mindy, The frog is so cute! My little guy is named RYLAN too!

Another Rylan!! It's a name that's definitely gaining popularity! I love my Rylan to pieces!

 

[KandiB47]

Same here - I'm incredibly uncreative and do not enjoy party planning. It's hard enough for me to remember to make sure there is food & cake LOL! DS will be 1 on May 31st so his birthday party will always fall on the same day as our Memorial Day picnic. Maybe not so exciting, but at least he gets a party to kick off summer!!

OP here.

My DS will be one on May 31th too! May 31th is my birthday as well but I won't mention my age

Cute cakes ladies! Thank you for all the ideas.

 

[almburr]

I love 1st Birthdays. We go all out for the first b-day, after that it is a little thing with a friend or two. DD12 hers was a beach party(BBQ, and cake),DD8 she had a family block party(steaks, and cake)DS6 his was a Luau (cooked for days and had a great time) DD5 she had a circus (brother and sisters dressed up as lions,acrobats) DS2 he had a pizza party.

We just invited family and very close friends who are not family, that is around 35 people. I get everything from Oriental trading.

 

[disneylovinfamily]

I just had DSs 1st birthday party last weekend. We had a pirate theme and it was so cute. W had kids ranging in age from 1-6 and I had the following games: pin the flag on the ship, walk the plank (a board on concrete blocks) into the ball pit, dig for buried treasure (big plastic gold coins) in the sandbox and pick a message in a bottle. the message correspanded with a prize. I had tehm floating in a large tub. We also did a treausre hunt to find the goody bags.

I had a table set up for kids an adults with pirate hats, eye patches and temp tatoos---they were a big hit!

We had kabobs and seafood dips and a fruit ship (my mom hallowed out a watermellon and shaped it into a ahip and filled it with frit, we added a mast with sails, a parrot and pirate flag.

There was more but I don't want to keep going on and on. i am obssessed with my kids parties and plan for months. DD4 is going to have a cicus theme for her 5th in November.

 

[reginaastralis]

We had a monkey theme, it was so cute!
I made monkey invitations:

Here is the cake I made. I got the directions off of Martha Stewart website.

The banana peels are just felt cut out and hot glued together.
We had a bean bag toss. I painted a box to look like a monkey face and the bean bags were bananas. You tossed it into the monkey's mouth.

Ds wore a Gymboree outfit that had bananas on it (safari looking).

We named all the food funny names too. I can't remember what though.

We were going to do this for my daughter's first birthday too! If anyone is interested in anything like this, Michael's just released a set of Martha Stewart stuff, and they have invites and such iwth this print on them. I don't know much more about it, since I fell in LOVE with this monkey theme two years ago ... but I saw something about it in the ad this week.

We did a jungle theme for Julie's birthday. I don't have a picture of the cupcakes, but they were chocolate with green frosting with animals on them. We didn't do games or anything, since she's the only baby we know. For her second we were even worse, it was just cake and presents again ... but no food. Her birthday is the week after Christmas, and each year we've been sick as a dog when it's time for her birthday.

 

[bumbershoot]

Well, mine might not be of ANY use to anyone. But I'll share anyway.

Since DH and I have food allergy issues, we delayed solids for DS. Therefore, cake for DS on his 1st was absolutely out, just too many high issue foods all lumped into one cute cake (eggs, flour, etc).

Also, DS is a quarter Korean, and we all wanted a traditional Korean birthday, which MIL was happy to provide (if one can ever consider her happy).

Her sisters, who still live in Korea, sent out a first-birthday outfit for him, and MIL cooked for several days, b/c celebrations there involve many plates of stacked and piled foods, all put on a small table in front of the person of honor.

We sat at the table with him, in front of a gorgeous hand-painted fold-out screen that MIL's mother had made, and DS did the traditional (don't know if it's Korean or Buddhist tradition) *choose the object to show your future* thing, and chose a pencil. Then, because he had only had fruit by that time, not white rice, since I was still nursing him, *I* ate some of the sweet rice soup that would have been traditional for him to have, because it would get to him somehow.

Even though DS wasn't having any, I insisted on bringing an "American" cake (though usually I'm not into American traditions), which we then took home intact b/c no one wanted any after all the Korean food.

MIL had invited the monks from her temple to bless DS, but she sent them away even before the party started, because we were stuck in traffic and weren't there an hour early.



Growing up, the younger b'day parties were pretty much just the adults that love the family, and any kids they might have. We never had "friends" that young, so it was people from the past, from LLL meetings, and such. So that's traditional for us.


(His second party we had delicious (seriously) vegan cupcakes from a market in Seattle and some regular cake, and some random food, and we did a "jungle" theme from the party store. Had it at a park, no kids other than DS, just friends, some family, and DH's co-workers who adore Eamon and the cakes I make. MIL hated the party b/c it was cold. On May 26th! And because we didn't have it at her house again.)

(This year he has had lots of cake, so though we might have the vegan cupcakes again b/c everyone loves them, but there will also be "regular" cake, possibly in the shape of Buzz Lightyear, b/c that's the theme. Still not planning on many kids, still mainly friends and family who love him and like my cakes )

 

[strmtroopr96]

OP here.

My DS will be one on May 31th too! May 31th is my birthday as well but I won't mention my age

Cute cakes ladies! Thank you for all the ideas.

My birthday is May 31st too!! Great day! My friend's son will also be 1 on May 31st...exactly 3 weeks later, my youngest DD Avery Brynn will be 1 already! Went fast!

When my oldest DD, Emily, turned 1...she had a Sesame Street party. Her cake had blue frosting and she looked like a smurf for awhile after. LOL

 

[flipflop]

We did a rubber ducky theme for the trio. I made a 3D ducky cake sitting on a large round cake that i decorated to looked like water with bubbles (I used dowls to hold it together). We took a pic of the three kids in the tub and wrote Rub a dub dub, three babes in the tub who are all turning one with the party details below. We didn't play games since at 1 they weren't really into that (even now - we just had their second birthday party- they are more into playing with the balloons than playing party games).