Emmett's 1st Birthday Party

Our little baby turned one! The year flew by! We celebrated his birthday with friends on Saturday, April 16, 2011. We had a firetruck theme.

It was the first time I tried a theme and it was a lot of fun! We had yellow and red decorations, a yellow bucket for the presents, and a red bucket for the favors. I put the favors in clear plastic bags with red tissue paper lining the inside and twist tied the tops so they kinda looked like flames. I also made the boys matching shirts with iron on firetrucks. They turned out so darn cute! Of course we had our traditonal year of pictures. This time I put them on the wall instead of a tree since there was no way we were going to have the party outside. This also made it so I could write "Emmett's 1st year" above it. Candace made the most adorable cakes! It was yummy homemade chocolate "crazy cake" with some candy in the filling. She did a firetruck for the cake for everyone and a little circle cake with an E for Emmett.

 

 So cute! We decided it was best to do it quick since Emmett gets overwhelmed and lets you know he want to go to bed about 7:30. We opened presents first. He recieved 3 tub toy trucks, a light flahing/spining wand and a bouncing, jiggling, music playing ball from our friends Garrett and Stephanie (and Emmett's friend Teagen who also just turned one). The Marion family gave Emmett the coolest trike! Its a little giraffe and you push it along with your feet. The Kelley's gave Emmett a lift the flap John Deere book and his first cadbury egg. That is what he is asking me to open for him in the first picture of the collage. Alestair picked out some touch and feel flash cards for him. Emmett just loves them and Alestair loves to show them to him. On the way home from buying them Alestair had to show them one at a time to Emmett. It went a little like this "What's this? What is it? Its a pish. Say pish. Pish PIISH." and so one with each of the cards. Robert and I g

ave Emmett a most adorable frog Scentsy buddy. He loves it. It now goes everyewhere with us. Grandma Fee and Aunt Stacy sent a gift to him that got here just a few hours before the party. It had a new Sunday shirt and vest and two of Emmett's favorite books (Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and Down by the Bay).

 

As it is with most 1st birthdays, the best part was watching Emmett eat his cake. He had his foot resting on the table most of the time. It ended up being frozen still so we had to cut a slice for him but from there...you can see what happened. Robert put war paint frosting on him. He managed to not get his bib dirty at all. Alestair gave him instructions on how to eat cake. This was pretty amusing.



Candace, Tina and Candace's new little man Joel!



Emmett LOVES Joel. He loves Candace more
and hardly ever lets her walk by without holding him.
He throws a HUGE fit when she leaves or walks away.
He does not give kisses but does to Joel (and his frog).
Joel also got a hug.