Hooray for birthdays! I love birthdays! I don't know if it's because I like the party part, the no-excuses-I'm-diving-into-that-cake part, or the anticipation behind the presents part. Or just all three. I mean it's all so fun to sit around with friends and family and eat delicious food and stuff, ya? I think so. Really it's something we should do more often in addition to birthdays. So yeah... when my mom asked if we could do an early birthday party for Peter when they were in town I got pretty excited... because that meant we got to celebrate twice! Again I say... hooray birthdays! And so, whilst my parents were in town for my cousin's wedding we set aside a few hours to party party party. I wanted this party to be cute but I didn't want to have to spend lots of money and go way over the top for something a 2-year old wasn't even going to care about. And so I hopped on the good ol' pinterest and found some fun cheap ideas for a car themed party. Because we all know that Peter looooves "cahs." Here are a few of the fun ideas that I found...
I was totally digging this drink station idea because you can roll with it so many different ways! Like blue koolaid and call it antifreeze! Haha yeeeeeah. After showing Todd how "cute" of an idea it was he pointed out to me that we probably shouldn't teach our child that it's okay to drink antifreeze. He made a good point. And so out with the edible-drinks-pretending-to-be-poisonous idea and in with the refueling station idea. It works yeah?
You can't really tell in any of these pictures but the black tablecloth had masking tape down the middle so it looked like a road. And that cake was Todd's idea... it's supposed to be a tire but it kind of just looks like a giant chocolate covered donut. Turns out it's hard to make a solid chocolate cake look like a tire unless you have mad fondant skills. Which I don't have. So... giant chocolate covered donut it is! Also delicious, no?
Can you tell what this one is? Yeah? No? K it's a stoplight! Of course! And it was my own idea! I can't decide if it's obvious enough or not haha. Either way it was fun and cheap to make. (:
Okay anyway... back to what really matters... Peter's birthday! Hooray birthdays! He was a little nervous about sitting on the table next to his cake but once we served it to him he did not hold back. No surprise there.
Present time! We made the rookie mistake of letting him open up the match box cars first. It took a lot of coaxing to get him to politely open the rest of the presents without throwing a fit. He really does love the cahs.
I just can't not include this picture.
Bubbles, stickers, cars... what more could you ask for?? Thanks so much to all of our family that came and celebrated with us!
Fast forward 5 days to Peter's actual birthday...
He started off his day by playing with some balloons in his crib and traffic jamming cars on his surprise #2 road.
A lovely morning and a short nap later we were at the splash pad with our favorite former Wisconsin-ites, Maren and Lisi. Aren't those two kiddos so cute??
Auntie Em had fun getting Peter wet. Probably pay back for the last week of extra early mornings. ;)
To no surprise, Peter had a blast and we couldn't keep him from running with excitement. He biffed it many, many times.
As expected, Lisi very successfully played the more conservative and adorable roll.
See? Adorable.
Yeah friends! We sure are glad these guys decided to follow us out to Utah... now for Amber and her family to show up! (:
After getting cooled off at the splash pad we topped the afternoon off with momma and baby kong kones at Macey's. Peter might have finished his a little fast... and shivered as if hypothermia was setting in. Seriously... the kid was unreasonably cold for eating a baby kong kone. Something tells me he didn't mind though.
Later that evening we enjoyed more standard, yet still mostly delicious, celebrating with the Fife's.
Yes, that is the same cake from the first party that we froze and defrosted for the second party.
What a kid! We really lucked out to get to be this guys parents. He is such a happy, silly, energetic, fun, and loving child. Happy birthday wild man, we love you like the moon at night... big and round and warm and bright.
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