To be honest, I didn’t love any of the doormats To be honest, I didn’t love any of the doormats at Hobby Lobby, but it was hard to resist the 75% off price tag. You can’t beat it for five bucks, and it turned out to be just the bit of extra sunshine I needed. Sometimes you don’t know what you need and it finds you anyway. 💛
Having Leo is like the newborn stage all over agai Having Leo is like the newborn stage all over again. He falls asleep on top of me and then I feel bad waking him up if I have to get up. 😂
My oldest is working today at a food truck festiva My oldest is working today at a food truck festival that a friend runs so we popped in for a quick visit to support both of them, and of course we can’t leave without the amazing Crab Poutine Fries from @angry_archies! The @justjerseyfest is on Main Street in Chester until 7 pm - stop by and strap a feed bag on! Bring a blanket and listen to the live music while you’re there - it’s perfect festival weather. ☀️
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This is 14-1/2. I love that her half birthday come This is 14-1/2. I love that her half birthday comes as we wrap up family summer birthdays so she is included too. 🥰 She loves lululemon, fountain Coke, and long hugs. She is a fiercely loyal friend, is the best debater I know, and sleeps later than I ever did when I was a teenager. 😂 She is quiet and loud all at once and is forever the biggest cheerleader her brother and I could ever have. My rainbow baby is growing up before my eyes and I love it and hate it all at once. Love you to the moon and back kiddo. 💛
“Everything good, everything magical happens bet “Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August." Jenny Han
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Did the lyrics to “Sitting on the Dock of the Ba Did the lyrics to “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay” just run through your head or are you young? 😂 I despise Parkway traffic in the summer but love that our kids get to have a Jersey shore summer just like we did when we were their age. 💛
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Celebrating in Pink Monkey Style

February 17, 2009 · Narrative

Miss Monkey PantsSo I’ve been trying to come back here and write again for the past few days, but the best laid plans and all that … we had Madeline‘s birthday party on Saturday and ever since then, I’ve been down for the count with the flu.  I think it must have been hovering – luckily it waited until Saturday night, but I haven’t left the house since.  Today is the first day I finally feel human a bit.  I’m just glad whatever it was that hit me didn’t come until after the party was over.

I took a crazy amount of pictures … um, 127 or thereabouts.  It was her first birthday after all!  I’ll spare you sitting through them all and will just give you a few highlights.  Recipes will follow in coming days.

I kept debating back and forth about what I should do about a menu.  Really, what else is new?  My difficulty lies in the fact that there are so many recipes I want to try, entertaining and celebrations are just great opportunities to try a bunch of new ones out at the same time.  In an effort to not kill myself, which was only mildly successful (see flu reference above), I decided to order a sandwich platter and then concentrate on desserts. 

Chocolate Covered PretzelsI knew from the beginning I wanted to have a table filled with treats.  I bought a few glass jars and some small paper white sacks.  The kids spent the morning decorating the sacks with stickers for me, and we set them out with the candy-filled jars.  This way, guests could fill a bag with treats as they left.  Along with the assorted pink-hued candies, I made white chocolate covered pretzels, peppermint bark and cinnamon-sugar cookies decorated with pink frosting M’s on the top.

For the main dessert, I’m sure it’s no surprise that I went with cupcakes.  I was closerthanthis to ordering some from one of the cupcake bakeries in the city, but decided to try out a new recipe for both the cupcakes and the frosting.  I think I may have finally found the clone to the cupcakes from Billy’s Bakery that we I love so much.   ‘Bout time!  I had planned on just using the cupcakes when we sang happy birthday, but the recipe made 24 and had enough batter leftover for a small cake, so I put it in a heart-shaped dish I had and her monkey cake was born.

Tomorrow, recipes!  Until then, a few pictures.

Still More Treats

More Treats

Monkey Cake

Goodies to Go

Peppermint Bark

Cookies

Monkey Madness

Cupcakes

Strike a Pose

I think this might be one of my favorite pictures. Madeline and I were playing in her room after the party, and she was all smiles and giggles:
Pure Joy

Fast asleep, tutu and all, after her big first birthday party:
All Done

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  1. Claire says

    February 18, 2009 at 12:06 am

    OH MY GOODNESS!!! Precious! I love the last picture with that little tutu…and the one of her grinning above, so sweet…and nice healthy teeth (;-)!) ! What a good idea about the goodie bags…that’s perfect! Glad you’re feeling better…I hope that you are all well soon.

    Claires last blog post..Steak and Apples

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  2. Kris says

    February 18, 2009 at 1:12 pm

    Love the pictures! The one of her laughing is just precious!

    Yummy goodies too!

    Reply
  3. pamela says

    February 18, 2009 at 10:37 pm

    Wow! I can’t believe she’s a year already! She’s so beautiful!

    pamelas last blog post..Mushroom Bourguignon

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  4. Ka'Ress says

    March 27, 2009 at 1:40 pm

    where did you get her tu tu from i love it!

    Reply
  5. luz pagan says

    February 1, 2010 at 2:10 pm

    OMG!!! thank you sooo much for the tutu idea i’m having a 1st birthday on 3/7 and had no idea what to put on my daughter until i saw you pictures thanks again
    Where did you get the tutu?

    lu

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To be honest, I didn’t love any of the doormats To be honest, I didn’t love any of the doormats at Hobby Lobby, but it was hard to resist the 75% off price tag. You can’t beat it for five bucks, and it turned out to be just the bit of extra sunshine I needed. Sometimes you don’t know what you need and it finds you anyway. 💛
Having Leo is like the newborn stage all over agai Having Leo is like the newborn stage all over again. He falls asleep on top of me and then I feel bad waking him up if I have to get up. 😂
My oldest is working today at a food truck festiva My oldest is working today at a food truck festival that a friend runs so we popped in for a quick visit to support both of them, and of course we can’t leave without the amazing Crab Poutine Fries from @angry_archies! The @justjerseyfest is on Main Street in Chester until 7 pm - stop by and strap a feed bag on! Bring a blanket and listen to the live music while you’re there - it’s perfect festival weather. ☀️
Happy Friday, friends, cheers to the weekend! See Happy Friday, friends, cheers to the weekend! See also: I was influenced by an IG ad and I’m ok with that. ✨
This is 14-1/2. I love that her half birthday come This is 14-1/2. I love that her half birthday comes as we wrap up family summer birthdays so she is included too. 🥰 She loves lululemon, fountain Coke, and long hugs. She is a fiercely loyal friend, is the best debater I know, and sleeps later than I ever did when I was a teenager. 😂 She is quiet and loud all at once and is forever the biggest cheerleader her brother and I could ever have. My rainbow baby is growing up before my eyes and I love it and hate it all at once. Love you to the moon and back kiddo. 💛
“Everything good, everything magical happens bet “Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August." Jenny Han
The disco ball was hung there temporarily for a ho The disco ball was hung there temporarily for a hot minute but when it starts showing off at sunset, how could I move it anywhere else? ✨
Did the lyrics to “Sitting on the Dock of the Ba Did the lyrics to “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay” just run through your head or are you young? 😂 I despise Parkway traffic in the summer but love that our kids get to have a Jersey shore summer just like we did when we were their age. 💛

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