Adeline's Winter "One"derland

I'm not sure why it has taken me so long to blog about Adeline's first Birthday- I'm not sure if I was too busy doing the mom thing, or just too much in denial about my last baby officially leaving babyhood and entering kid-dom?

No matter what the reason for my blogging delay, surrounded by our friends and family we celebrated Adeline's first birthday on December the 10th 2017, and it was perfect. The theme was A Winter "One"derland and held the party in the community room in our apartment building- which oddly enough was the same place we held Cordelia's first birthday. 

The whole room was decked out in silver, white, blues, and purples. We hung streamers and shinny snowflakes from the ceiling, taped transparent snowflakes to the large windows, and covered every flat surface with purple table cloths and fluffy, sparkly garland. 

 

In front of the massive fireplace I hung this banner I made that had a photo of Adeline from each month of her life. 

We of course had themed foods, which included:

*A snowman shaped cheese ball, with snowflake Ritz Crackers

*Snowman noses (baby carrots)

*Penguin snacks (goldfish)

*Snowballs (rice crispy treats)

*Polar ice caps (blue meringues) 

*Snowman decorated string cheese

*Snowman Arms (pretzel sticks)

*White chocolate snow flake pretzels 

*White cheddar poof "snow balls"

and to drink we served

"melted snow" (water) and "glacier ice" (kool aid)

A special thank you to my sister Lori for making all of our signs and labels. 

My sister Shauna made the perfect winter themed Oatmeal "Pup" cakes - the same flavor we had for Cordelia's first birthday. 

And a darling Smash cake which was eaten the most daintily of any smash cake in existence. 

The birthday girl wore a brand new mama made dress for the occasion. It was made from an almost sheer white polka dot cotton fabric, lined in lavender cotton, and has peak-a-boo white ball fringe on the bottom (to look like snow)

And don't let these photos fool you- she only kept that headband on for about 2 minutes. 

And when the party was over, and we had said all our goodbyes, put the leftovers away, and tried our best to clean up all the glitter- we both felt like this!