Jacob's Elmo Party

It was super last minute when I decided to throw Jacob a small birthday party. Two weeks before the party, I was contemplating having one, and finally, a week before, I decided to go ahead with it. I decided to use an Elmo theme, and I got pretty much ALL of my decor from Party City - no time to make anything. Okay, I made a few things, I made his birthday banner, the tags for the favors, the centerpieces, and that's it. Actually, the centerpieces were recycled from his 1st birthday party. I think everything came out great for being so last minute. I know Jacob enjoyed his birthday celebration despite running a fever most of the day and having little sleep. Poor baby, you could see in his face he wasn't feeling good, but he went swimming and this helped his fever. He got a ton of toys, and he pretty much loved everyone of them! We did have some drama. Small drama. We placed an order for his cake a few days before, but on the day of, the store could not find the order, so they had to come up with something fast. We picked a generic design, but it didn't look as cute as it did in the picture. If you notice in the picture below, there's no trace of "Happy Birthday" on the cake, and the handwriting on the cake is screwed up. It should read "J is for Jacob" in a consistent font, not hey, lets start off in print and end in cursive. Serious. What was this store thinking?! Anywho, we contacted the store, and they're supposedly sending a gift card to rectify the problem. We'll see. As for the favors, they were plastic Sesame Street cups filled with bubbles and candy. I figured I'd get the kids something they could continue to use. All in all, Jacob had a great 2nd Bday, and we're all looking forward to next year when we have a big bash for both Jacob and Isabella!

My big boy...


The cake table...


Centerpieces...


Banner I made and the other decor...


THE cake. At least it was yummy!


Hamming it up...




If you look closely, that is spit...


Awesome favors...


He went down the slide, his second time...ever. He loved it.


She slept through pretty much the WHOLE thing.