I had pre-ordered invitations, balloons, plates and napkins in an adorable baby dinosaur theme. Harper likes to pretend she's being chased by a dinosaur every time she leaves a room, probably a game she came up with at school with her friends. At night when we are getting dressed after a bath, we would get Jasper dressed in his room, then move to Harper's room to get her dressed. Jasper would usually start playing with some toys while we made it over to her room, and as we went over she would run in saying "a dinosaur is coming!". A few moments later we would inevitably hear Jasper coming down the hall, making his usual noises, sounding an awful lot like a wild animal... or a dinosaur, as we would pretend. He'd peek his head around the door as we would be watching for him, and we all crack up. When I found these baby dinosaur party items, I thought it would be absolutely perfect.
Jon and I had cleaned up the house most of the morning, and while Jasper was down for a nap, Harper and I left to pick up the cake and balloons. I had asked Jon to hang some of the decorations from the ceiling and blow up some of the balloons to place around at different spots. We had discussed earlier in the week about possibly using some streamers, but I personally hate using them, so I told him he was in charge of that department. When Harper and I returned, I was shocked to see what he had done! Not only had he hung all the decorations like I had asked, but he had made a HUGE ballooon chandelier and hung it from our ceiling fan. It was awesome!
I was so happy with how the party went. We held it in the afternoon so we had plenty of finger foods and sweets and of course cake. Nice and relatively easy that way. He did great with his presents and surprised me by actually trying to open most of them himself. He received a rocking chair from Nana and Papa, and that was his very favorite gift. The unexpected gift that wasn't exactly a gift was the card from Uncle Craig and Aunt Karyn. It was a hamster that sung a silly song when the card opened, and he got an absolute kick out of it!
I was so happy with how the cakes turned out. For Harper's first birthday, I made cupcakes and made her smash cake. I decided I didn't have the time or desire to do that for Jasper's, and was thrilled to find a couple cakes that went with the baby dinosaur theme. Little did I know that Jasper would cry his little eyes out when we gave him his smash cake! He was absolutely terrified of it. He refused to touch it and did not stop crying until we took it away. Poor baby! I was disappointed as I looked forward to him getting completely gooey and messy, but that did not happen. The few opportunities we've given him to try sweets, he's refused, but I was hoping he would at least taste his birthday cake. Oh well!
Here are some of the pics from our baby boy's special day!
The amazing balloon chandelier and streamers created by Daddy.
Balloons and dinosaur placemats.
Picture table with birthday hats and dinosaur noses.
Big cake with baby dinosaurs.
Smash cake!
Birthday boy and Daddy.
Sitting in the rocking chair from Nana and Papa.
Fascinated with the silly card.
Not too sure about this hat, Mom.
Uh, what are you doing with that cake?
Please, get this thing outta here!
Mommy, Mia and Harper wearing the dinosaur noses.
After the party, Wes, Jessica and Mia hung around to visit for a while. We never really get to see them, so it was fun watching the girls play. We did a pretty good job wearing them out. Here's a picture of them having races in the backyard.
Later after dinner, we tried to give Jasper the smash cake again, hoping he might give it a try, but he cried harder this time!!
It was a long, fun day and we were so blessed to celebrate our little boy's big milestone!
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