A Very Rainbow 1st Birthday Party

The day after the first birthday came the first birthday party. It was, if I’m honest, a little bit surreal. I had a baby, and that baby was one, and now her baby friends were coming over to have a party. I felt like there must be some other adult in charge, as it couldn’t possibly be me. Only, it was me. I guess I’m a parent, or something?

We were up late into the night preparing the food and getting the house ready. We got up early too, and I dashed to the post depot to collect some parcels before more party prep. The cavalry arrived at lunch time, and Alice & Alex did a marvellous job of hanging the bunting (what dip!) while Dave’s Dad and Sister blew up many, many helium balloons (and created a couple of fantastic balloon rainbows for me). It all came together brilliantly. In case you couldn’t guess, there was a bit of a rainbow theme.

During the week Becca had helped me to gather up all of her ‘rainbow’ coloured toys, which were in a basket in the playroom, along with the colourful wooden blocks and megablocks. The kids had a good run around, getting in to everything, while we waited for everyone to arrive. Then came the food. I suddenly realised I hadn’t eaten all day and I was faced with a wall of cakes.

The rainbow birthday cake, plus mini party rings and chocolate covered marshmallows, dipped in sprinkles.

We also had a selection of sandwiches, breadsticks & dips, a rainbow fruit platter and a rainbow vegetable platter. I’d made little tags for everything in photoshop and printed them out.

The sweet treats were rainbow cupcakes (all the different coloured cake batters layered together) and ice cream cone cupcakes made by my mum.

I took a close up of the totally awesome rainbow fruit platter, because I was seriously proud of it, but I have no idea what happened to it. I think it’s on another memory card. I guess it’s now a long lost memory card. It’s probably in the same place as my debit card, which disappeared this week without a trace after doing some online banking.. anyway.. back to the story..

We had just enough highchairs to go around. Becca had her first date, sharing a highchair tray with her baby buddy William. It was very sweet, and they even played a little footsie!

Singing Happy Birthday.

Of course, there were more presents..

Plus more general adorableness..

I think it was a pretty good party.