[blparent] baby's first birthday

[Pipi]

Erin,
I love your ideas of having the memories for your son when he is older.
I did a monkey theme for my daughter's 1st birthday. I figured it was the 
one time I'd get to decide and I love monkeys. I did simple blue and yellow 
decorations of streamers and balloons. I printed off about 100 pictures 
documenting Savannah's 1st year and hung them around the house. I made a 
cookie cake, I dislike cake, and with help from my sister decorated it to 
look like a monkey's head. We didn't play any games as she was too little. I 
made a coconut banana punch, and just had snacks like banana chips, a monkey 
trail mix, banana bread, and I'm drawing a blank to what else.
I made little treat bags for each kid. I bought blue and yellow felt. I 
sewed the blue square into a bag. I then sewed on strips of yellow for the 
nadle. I cut out bananas from the yellow and glued them on.
I only invited family as we hadn't made any friends for Savannah at that 
time. It was a nice close family party that didn't cost me too much.
Oh one more thing, as part of Savannah's gift, my mom took a huge cardboard 
box and turned it into a monkey cage for Savannah as she loved tboxes and 
the dog's cage at that time. It turned out really cute.
Pipi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erin Rumer" <erinrumer at gmail.com>
To: "NFB blind parent listserv" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 5:46 PM
Subject: [blparent] baby's first birthday


> Hello list,
>
>
>
> Now that Dawson is 10 months old I'm excitedly beginning to plan for his
> first birthday which will be here before I know it.  I'm planning on 
> making
> the affair simple with friends and any family that is able to make it 
> since
> we're out of state from most of our family.  The party will probably be at
> home or at a nearby park with pizza, a few side dishes and a Costco cake
> since they do such a great cake for only around $18 which includes a
> customized message.  Since Dawson's birthday is on Halloween I'm planning 
> on
> doing a pumpkin theme with the invitations saying, "Our Little Pumpkin Is
> Turning 1".  As favors for the guests I'm planning on taking cleaned out
> baby food jars and wrapping them with messages from Dawson to his guests 
> and
> they will have candy inside.  I got some excellent game ideas for the 
> guests
> on-line as well as some memory making ideas like having a shoe box that 
> the
> guests can put a message into for Dawson to open when he's older.  I'm 
> also
> going to have a picture of Dawson with a big blank border around him that
> guests can write something to him on in acid free pen that I'll frame and
> put up in his room
>
>
>
> I'd love to hear what you guise did for your kids first birthdays and what
> worked and what didn't.  I want to make this party low budget but with 
> lots
> of cute touches.  I've also created a wish list on the Babys R Us website
> which will make gift hunting easy on folks.  I can't wait to hear about 
> your
> babies first birthdays.
>
>
>
> Erin
>
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