Elly's First Birthday

On Saturday July 17th at 4pm we had Elly's First Birthday. The theme was "tiny" for a tiny girl, but it was a big party and big time fun. I was really happy with how everything went but the best part of the whole day was the ELLY TOOK HER FIRST STEPS. She was opening her presents and with everyone watching her she stood up (stood there for a while) and then took about 4 steps on her own - it was so great and I am so proud of her... guess she is not so tiny anymore.

The invitation was the size of a business card with a magnifying glass attached to the outside.

For decorations I made a picture timeline of her first year, a birthday banner and some balloons attached with pink tool around the house and outside.

We served tiny food. Tiny Hamburger and ham and cheese sliders, tiny fruit kabobs, potato salad, tiny pasta salad, tiny bags of chips. For drinks we had pop, juice, water bottles (with fun birthday facts), and pink lemonade; there was also candies, Jelly popcorn and for dessert we have tiny cupcakes and tiny ice cream cones.

All the kids were able to play outside in a fun astro jump (one of our friends was generous enough to bring); we also had lots of bubbles and an inflatable pool of balls.

She got to open lots of great presents.

She had some amazing firsts (first taste of grape pop – thanks Grandmas), first bite of cake, and her first steps.

And all the kids left with a tiny treat bag full of tiny things, and the adults left with some caramel chocolate homemade marshmallow squares (this was a recipe that I made up and was a bit of a flop but they were still really yummy).

Even after such a great party I still can’t believe that Elly will be one (July 28^th). It feels like just yesterday that she was this tiny newborn home from that hospital.