{"id":1109,"date":"2010-09-12T13:31:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T19:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erinfarrellphotography.com\/theblog\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2010-11-01T18:52:58","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T00:52:58","slug":"seuss-tastic-birthday-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erinfarrellphotography.com\/theblog\/2010\/09\/seuss-tastic-birthday-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Seuss Themed Birthday Party!"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Molly and CJ having birthdays only two days apart, you bet they were going to be sharing a birthday party! \u00a0Ever since CJ was born (actually even before he was born), I had been brainstorming gender-nuetral birthday party themes. \u00a0Molly had been asking for a Toy Story party (which would have worked since it’s gender neutral), but I really wanted to do a Dr. Seuss party. \u00a0So, Mommy overruled (on the basis that this would be the last time I would be able to do so) and Molly quickly jumped on board.<\/p>\n

We had the party at a local playground that is usually fairly empty. \u00a0It’s free to have a party there, but there are no reservations . . .so it’s pretty much first come, first serve. \u00a0We decided to risk it this year — big mistake. \u00a0We pulled up an hour before the party to set up and there was not a single table open. \u00a0It was PACKED! \u00a0I counted at least five birthday parties and one family reunion. \u00a0I just about died – we were expecting almost FIFTY people! \u00a0One party started packing up to leave, opening up 4 tables, and my stress level started to lower. \u00a0Then, a dad setting up another party jumped on three of the tables! \u00a0I was like, ‘oh, we’re getting ready to have a party too, so do you think we could split what’s here?’ \u00a0He (I have many other names I wanted to call him) said, ‘We’re having a party at 3:00 and we need at least three of these tables.’<\/p>\n

Because I had my kids with me and we were going to have to go through the whole party right next to these people, I smiled and started setting up on our one table. \u00a0Thankfully, the huge family reunion was super nice and they condensed and gave us two more tables. \u00a0So, a big THANK YOU to the super nice ladies from the family reunion! \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The invite (minus location and phone number):<\/p>\n

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Anyway, onto the party pics! \u00a0My kids in their Cat in Hat shirts I found on sale at Boscov’s for $5 each.<\/p>\n

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Paper products (from Celebrate Express<\/a>) and huge banner (designed by me and printed at\u00a0vistaprint.com<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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The cake & cupcakes (made by a very talented friend)<\/p>\n

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The spread (we also had BBQ pulled pork (‘Yot in a Pot’) and BBQ pulled chicken (‘Yan in a Pan’) for the adults, but I forgot to get pictures of that):
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Recycling bin (with a page from The Lorax on it that said “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
\nnothing is going to get better. It’s not.<\/em>“) and a birthday book.<\/p>\n

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Party favors (small Dr. Seuss stuff from Target<\/a> and lollipops from Oriental Trading<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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We also did a goldfish buffet. \u00a0Kids could take a sippy cup and fill it up with goldfish.<\/p>\n

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Some fun party pics. \u00a0Molly with her two best friends. \u00a0LOVED that some of the guests showed up in Dr. Seuss outfits! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Pinata time!<\/p>\n

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To say CJ enjoyed his chocolate smash cake was an understatement. \u00a0I will be digging icing out of his nose for days.<\/p>\n

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There were mountains of gifts from our generous family and friends. \u00a0Molly chucked all clothing right over her shoulder. \u00a0Such a change from last year when she would exclaim, “Cute!” everytime she opened something. \u00a0CJ was more interested in climbing on the gifts rather than opening them.
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One of my very best friends and her three handsome boys.<\/p>\n

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Molly rocking out. \u00a0She ended up with THREE guitars!\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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With Molly and CJ having birthdays only two days apart, you bet they were going to be sharing a birthday party! \u00a0Ever since CJ was born (actually even before he was born), I had been brainstorming gender-nuetral birthday party themes. \u00a0Molly had been asking for a Toy Story party (which would have worked since it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[63,61,64,62,66,65],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-birthday-party","tag-dr-seuss","tag-dr-seuss-party-ideas","tag-dr-suess","tag-dr-suess-birthday-invitation","tag-dr-suess-food-ideas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erinfarrellphotography.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erinfarrellphotography.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erinfarrellphotography.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erinfarrellphotography.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erinfarrellphotography.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/erinfarrellphotography.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476,"href":"https:\/\/erinfarrellphotography.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erinfarrellphotography.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erinfarrellphotography.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erinfarrellphotography.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}