UNO themed birthday party

I love modge podge.

Well, aside from Nolan being miserable, I think he had a great birthday party. My poor baby had his 1 year checkup on Wednesday and since then he has not been himself. On Wednesday, we also (made the mistake of) starting the transition to whole milk. Between the 4 shots, his 2 top teeth coming in and the milk change, Nolan was a constipated, cranky little boy and I was one sad mama. Nolan never reacted to any of his shots. After his 1 year appointment he had a fever for 2 days. L I also wish I would have waited 1 more week before we started the milk transition, but I really had no idea that Nolie would get so blocked up. I won’t go into details on that, but we are still working on the transition and I am hoping his belly adjusts soon. As for his teeth, I feel like it is rapid fire. The top 2 have broken through, but now it looks like there are ridges on the sides of his bottom 2 teeth. I really hope that everyone who attended Nolan’s birthday party knows that he really is a happy little boy. It has been the saddest week seeing him so miserable. I miss my happy baby.

For Nolan’s first birthday I was most excited for his smash cake. I wanted to do something special so with the help of my sister, I attempted to make it myself. The only reason Nolan even touched his smash cake was because he arm hit it as he was crying reaching for me to get him out of the chair. He did taste it and seemed to like it, but I guess when you have an awful belly ache the last thing you want to do is play with cake.

Nolan’s cake was 4 tiny layers of colorful fun! I did a red, yellow, green and blue layer to match the UNO theme. The cake had white icing and I did a matching sprinkle border.

Nolan’s high chair was my $10 score thanks to Auntie  Kim finding it through her teacher connection. I spray painted the chair bright yellow. I made a ribbon trim to go around the tray and hot glued an Uno card in the center.

I made a banner out of Nolan’s monthly photos and using my cricut I made it read “Nolan is Uno”

Nolan wore a shirt made by Aunt Aunnie and Uncle Anth. It said UNO on the front and had Nol’s name on the back with a number 1!

We bought 99 cent picture frames from IKEA! They came in red, green blue and white. I painted the white ones yellow. The frames were double sided so I filled them with pictures of Nolan throughout the year and placed them on the picnic tables.

The party favors were old jars of baby food. I painted the tops of the jars different colors and hot glued an uno card to the top. Then I filled the jars with M&M’s and popped a “Thank you! Love, Nolan” sticker on each jar. I also had a little goodie bag to go with the jars.

These are the pictures you get when you tell your husband to make sure to take pictures of everything ... 

We kept it simple with food. I placed chips and salsa on the tables. We ordered pizzas from our favorite place, Philly’s Best and then we had fruit, veggies, my sister’s addicting-ly amazing spinach dip and chocolate covered marshmallows. Aunt Lainy and I dipped the marshmallows in matching white chocolate and then covered them in matching sprinkles. I bought the flower holder green foam blocks from the dollar store and wrapped them in black tissue paper. Then I poked the marshmallows through to have a holder.

I almost forgot the invitations I made him, 

Although Nolan was not too happy at his party, it was still an absolutely wonderful day celebrating our little munchkin’s first year. I still can’t believe we have a 1 year old.

Thank you so much to everyone for your help with making his party so wonderful. I appreciate everyone that came, celebrated and has been a part of Nolan’s first year. We love you all so much!

A million more party pictures:

This makes me laugh.

So does this. 

Come here sissy boo!

Ryan liked that Drew wore a Nolan shirt!