Meredith turned one today, and yesterday was her big birthday party! We/I decided on a tea party theme, and Kacki and I ran with it from there. She was a HUGE help in set-up, food prep, décor – basically everything!
The tea party theme started with the invitations:
The main food area was the dining room. The menu included pimento cheese and PB&J “tea” sandwiches, fruit salad, pasta salad, chips, cheese and crackers, marshmallow pops, and cupcakes.
Jason’s cousin Lauren, who is a big thrifter/crafter, made the cupcake stand for us! (It did fall apart a little later, but it looked cute for a while!)
I had a little pretend tea party set up in the living room for the kids to play with, so Russell and Eliza served “tea” to the party guests.
There’s the birthday girl at her tea party! Of course she had a little smocked tea pot dress!
As everyone arrived, the kids played inside a little bit.
All the big kids sat at the table together for lunch.
Birthday girl sat in her highchair with the special banner Kacki made.
After lunch, we all went outside. The kids played on the swingset, played soccer with our soccer ball and cones, played with the toy lawnmower, and just plain played! Paw Paw and Kacki brought their tailgating tent, so we set that up outside along with a present table.
Time for presents! Russell felt like it was his job to help.
They both got bored of opening after a while. Russell retreated with one of Meredith’s new books, and Meredith sat and played, while Jason and I opened the rest!
Meredith was very ready for cake time. She has become quite a little snacker – she only wants to eat a certain amount, makes it known when she’s DONE, and then a couple hours later she comes walking or crawling up to her highchair, whining for something to eat! All that to say, she came walking up to her highchair ready for something right then, and lo and behold, the lucky girl got cake
Not sure about the birthday song…
Warming up to the cake…
Good thing we took your dress off, baby!
Meredith had a wonderful birthday party. It was at the perfect time, with the perfect weather, the perfect amount of guests (although we did miss those who couldn’t attend), and the birthday girl and everyone else had lots of fun!
Mommy and her sweet birthday girl:
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