2nd Birthday Party Fun!
Posted by cassie on Thursday, 14 August, 2008 @ 12:57 pm
Anthony is the lucky recipient of not one but TWO parties this year. We held one last weekend so Nick’s niece could attend (before she went back to college) as well as the rest of his family. It turned out to be rather fun with just a small group of people and everyone got to spend time with Anthony instead of watching him run off with other people. He seemed to enjoy it a lot also all the one-on-one time. He didn’t really understand it was a party until we got out our sticker-decorated party hats (great way to save some $$ btw). And he loved his cake although he was a bit intimidated when everyone started yelling at him to blow out the candle. He gets rather flustered when he receives a lot of instructions, like most kids.
This weekend will be the party with my side of the fam, our friends and all of Ant’s friends. It promises to be a good time for all! I can’t wait for him to blow out his candle again this weekend, hopefully it won’t be such a new experience for him and he’ll blow like crazy 
I asked my mom to get some Winnie the Pooh mylar balloons and since he LOVES balloons I can’t wait to see his face when Granny walks in with 10 balloons. How fun!
The themes of the parties are Winnie the Pooh and adorable just doesn’t describe it! We went to the party store and bought Winnie Pooh napkins and plates for the cake and then just colored napkins, plates and plastic table clothes in cooresponding colors. Believe it or not this did save us quite a bundle doing it that way. And I can use the colored items for other parties at other times. Anthony was really set on having hats but they didn’t have any in stock so we bought plain blue ones (his choice) and some Winnie Pooh stickers and decorated the hats ourselves. He found that to be the greatest of fun and I think I’ll do that from now on. I also got 2 citronella candle pails in pink for Piglet. lol (Mosquitoes are really bad right now around here.) A few more hanging decorations and some Winnie balloons and we are all set.