I’m way behind on my post for Claire’s first birthday party! We ended up celebrating the day after her actual
birthday. We had close family and some
close friends over to celebrate on a late Saturday morning. If you recall, I also planned to have Annie’s
3rd birthday to coincide with this celebration which worked out
well. We are at the age where I feel
like I can get away with combined birthdays.
Next year we will probably put the focus on Annie’s birthday and tuck
Claire’s celebration into Annie’s day.
It won’t be long before they will each want their own and not a shared celebration
so taking advantage of it while it doesn’t matter in their little worlds.
We were able to get Claire down for a short nap before the
birthday party which worked out well to have a happy rather than cranky 1 year
old. Everyone enjoyed seeing her walk
for the first time and take note to how much she has grown.
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Annie was full of energy and running around
with her cousin Elijah and friend Alaina.
At this age, their little personalities can take a turn at any given
moment so I wanted to keep the party festivities moving along quickly so that
we had them out of the way and we could all just socialize. So we started right away with singing Annie Happy
Birthday and she ended up with purple frosted cupcakes for the party. She is obsessed with the color purple
nowadays. And sugar. So win-win.
Annie is so funny. I
know how much she LOVES being celebrated.
But when the birthday song is being sung to her, she takes it so
seriously and the look on her face seems so business. Check out the video to see what I mean…
After this, we got right to gift opening. My least favorite part because the kids are
just nuts and the chaos always sends my anxiety sky high. I really need to figure out how to make this
better in the future. Annie was in my
face asking to open more and more gifts and she was ripping thru them so fast
and I was trying to focus on helping Claire open hers and I felt like it just
becomes a whirlwind and then I am not 100% sure what came from who in the
end. I think next year we will have one
kid open at a time for my sanity and keep the other kid contained on someone’s
lap. I can only handle one kid going
gift opening nuts at a time. The girls received
all sorts of fun stuff that they are loving to play with.
After gift opening, we got Claire ready for her smash
cake. Just like Annie 1st
birthday, she had zero interest in the cake; a few tastes and she was
done. I was okay with it because I
really didn’t care for the mess and we had already gotten good pictures the
weekend before during her 1 year old shoot.
So the cake smash was uneventful.
After this, the kids played and when everyone left, the girls
napped so well. I like to be cleaning up
while I’m visiting. It’s probably not the
best thing to do but then when everyone leaves, it’s peace and quiet time for
me too so that afternoon was the perfect down time for all.
For Annie’s 1st birthday I had hand-made most of
her decorations and went to a lot more work than I did for Claire’s. I thought about reusing them but Claire gets
so many hand-me downs in life that I decided she needed her own party décor. I ended up buying most all of our decorations
on Amazon and it was definitely the route to go.
All in all we had a great 1st birthday
celebration for our sweet Claire McKenna.
Everyone was able to make it and we got some good pictures of everyone
with her for her baby book. Speaking of
baby book, I worked furiously to get it filled out leading up to her
party. I had actually done a pretty good
job of keeping up with it until around 10 months and she had a lot of firsts in
those few missed months but I was able to get both the girl’s baby books
updated for the year. It feels good to
have that done.
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