Success!

For the most part, T-Boogie's birthday was a load of fun. We had seven babies under a year old attending, eight children under thriteen years, a seventeen year old and all the adults who brought them. A bit more than I had planned on coming, but we made a ton of food and somehow managed to feed everyone, and for the most part keep people entertained.

I know now that next year, we're doing pizza. BBQ was too much work with so many little people around, but of course next year if I'm not sick, I may change my mind. I was running around all day Saturday morning, taking T-Boogie to her first gymnastics class which was awesome, and buying ice, balloons, and all the other stuff I forgot to get beforehand. T-Boog's Nanny helped so much with preparing the salads, and of course some of our guests showed up at the park before we did! We saw the neighbors leaving while we were still loading up the cars, and I had to yell over them to take their time since we weren't set up yet.

It did go a lot longer than I was expecting too, which with so many babies meant some tears and fussing, but I think they all did fantastic, considering. And T-Boog got her first taste of vegan chocolate cake. She LOVED it, but it was odd because not all the babies did. Maybe because she was the only girl eating it?

Anyway, we completely slacked and took ZERO pictures. I'm hoping to get copies from the other folks who took some so I can show her later that we really did it big for her first birthday. Except decorations. I was so frazzled that I forgot to give out hats, or put any decorations up at all, and I remembered after kids started leaving that I had goody bags for them too, but the people who stuck it out longer ended up getting that reward! Next year, it will be easier, I'm sure. I have to keep reminding myself we did well for the first kiddie birthday.

I went home at 6, before everyone left, to put T-Boog to bed, and by the time she fell asleep she'd already been awake for almost 6 hours. She only slept 30 minutes, then woke back up, so we brought her downstairs and filmed her opening her presents. She loved the boxes and paper more than the actual gifts, but she's been having fun downstairs all day playing with them. The clothes are freaking adorable, the toys are perfect, and all in all, (besides the sinus infection, sore throat, etc) we all had a fab day.