Max's party pictures

My sweet boy is growing up! He's ONE year old now! Here's him (and Monkey) rolling up to his very first birthday party facing forward in his car seat for the very first time. Further proof that he's not content being a baby forever. :'(

I decided to go the less stressful route and just order a cake. I'm glad I did. How cute is this?! The monkey looks a tad angry with his eyebrows like that, but I still think it's super adorable.

 Ah, the party room. I went with a lime green/brown/yellow color scheme and made paper "jungle vines" to hang from the ceiling above the tables. I weighted the balloons down with bananas {cuz it's a MONKEY party :P}. It was so crazy simple, but still looked pretty cool if I do say so myself.

I made a "Happy Birthday" banner for the birthday boy. I could have taken the lazier and easier route and just bought a plain banner at the store, but it wouldn't have been nearly as cute. I started in Microsoft Word and printed giant letters to spell out "Happy 1st Birthday Max!" on yellow and brown paper. I cut the letters out in circles (tracing a bowl) and found a brown ribbon with some fun white polka dots on it to sting them together. Just for kicks and giggles I added some monkey faces to the line up too. David was lurking around when I was laying it out and assembling. He added his special big brother marks with silver gel pen. Nice touch, right? 

The only way we could manage a party for our little buddy was to make it a brunch. Between funky work and school schedules, we just don't have much down time so a Saturday morning was the only thing that worked for us. I baked up a bunch of goodies and got some fruit (bananas of course!) and called it good. It was so tasty!

Due to our somewhat odd timing, Max had to give up his morning nap. He was happy enough for the party, but he was very quiet and subdued and just looked at everyone with a glazed over tired boy look. Kind like this...



   He lasted about half way home before crashing...hard! He took a good long nap for me and woke up as a much happier boy. Partying really took it out of him. :)