Well I can't believe it! We survived our first year with twins (in addition to a four year old and two year old!) This year has absolutely flown by-I already feel like I don't remember much of it, especially those first few exhausting months. I'm glad for cameras to remind us all of this crazy time of life, and I mostly captured happy moments so that later I can have "momnesia" and only remember how great and fun it was-ha!
I took this picture on their actual birthday. Wowza! Look how big they've grown!
We had the twins' party out at the farm since our rental would have been way too crowded. It was perfect weather that day and the kiddos loved playing on the farm equipment and looking at the baby sheep (and building mud pies.) I'm sure parents were super excited about that.
I decided on a Dr. Seuss theme for their first birthday party. Thing One and Thing Two seemed so appropriate, and you can't do that with a single baby... I had such a fun time with this theme-there is SO much you can do with it. It was actually hardest to pick and choose out of all the myriads of ideas out there. And no, I'm not a Pinterest person, because I'm pretty sure I don't need another time suck/make me feel like even more of failure mom because I don't serve my kids organic hand made whatever. In any case I was really happy with how everything turned out, regardless of a couple of disasters that happened as I was getting ready (more on that later.) See, the boys have not completely fried my brains-I do have a few moments of creativity and craftiness that happen occasionally.
At this table I had two Happy Birthday to You! books that I wanted guests to sign, with the thought being that the twins will have a nice keepsake from their first birthdays. I think there was a little bit too much distraction going on though, and only a couple of people signed them. Sigh...
The goodie table
The Thing One and Thing Two cupcakes and Pink Yink Ink Drink
I really wanted to put blue cotton candy on the top of the cupcakes, but realized the night before, as I was practicing, that the cotton candy took about 15 minutes to melt onto the cupcakes and looked gross. :( So, I had to improvise and just frost them with blue frosting, and the twins got the cotton candy that I put on immediately before serving. After the fact I thought maybe it would work to just do cotton candy and no frosting, but you'd definitely have to use the tall paper wrappers that I used to hold it up.
PS When I was frosting the cupcakes the plastic bag that I was using exploded all over my hands and thank God I caught it before it fell all over my mother-in-law's beautiful light colored maple floors. Needless to say my hands were smurf colored all day.
From 10 Apples on Top
Green Eggs and Ham
So, another tragedy in the party prep was that I finished the eggs and was packing them up to go, and realized that I was too distracted as I was making them and forgot to dye them green! The whole point! Grrr! So after cussing under my breath I had to dig out all the egg yolk part and put it back in the bag and mix in the green dye and start over. Oy!
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish goldfish crackers
I also planned on little smokies in a bun with Go, Dog, Go! but decided at the last minute that it was just too much.
My little Thing 2 Jaxson
My little Thing 1 Zane
Oh my gosh, I love that Carter and Tiernan were playing so well together! Carter is Ethan's best friend Todd's son. Ethan and Todd are four months apart and so are Tiernan and Carter. So fun!
The happy birthday boys
You can kind of see the cupcake with cotton candy hair on the table in front of them
So once again I think my mothering skills must be going downhill because neither Tiernan or Cameron would even touch their 1st birthday cakes. Apparently these two are very familiar with "regular" (read, big people, bad for you) food and gobbled the cake up right away.
All the kids had blue frosting faces. Again, I'm sure all the parents just loved me.
We had such a fun time celebrating our precious twin boys!
