How can we celebrate our kid’s birthday without a cake?
My son’s first birthday is fast approaching, and I am debating whether or not to make him a cake. He hasn’t eaten anything with sugar (other than the sugars naturally found in fruit and breastmilk) and I would like to keep it that way as long as possible.
A Bob Dylan-themed birthday perfect for your little Tambourine Man(/Woman)
ALL PLANS FOR MY CHILD’S NEXT BIRTHDAY PARTY HAVE CHANGED. Ariel sent me an email with a link and text that read “Could this BE anymore up your alley?!!?” and I knew it had to be amazing. I jumped over to Super Punch and reveled in Holden’s Bob Dylan-themed birthday party by my new favorite designers, 2+.
Can you tell me how to get… to a Sesame Street-themed birthday party? (!!)
You guys may remember the Dr. Seuss-themed birthday party shot by Atlanta-based Uzbin Photograhy that we featured a few months ago — and today I’ve got yet another awesome looking kid fete for one-year-old Aya. Aya’s mother, Palwasha, planned a Sesame Street-themed event for her kidlet, and the photos are crazy adorable.
One super sweet monster/ugly doll/rainbow-themed kid’s birthday party
Eryn and Laurie recently shared photos from their daughter Izzie’s birthday that I am SO IN LOVE WITH. They’ve nicknamed their kiddo “Izzie Monster” and felt like a monster party would be the only way to really celebrate. Between the ball pit (kiddo pool + balls = instant kid fun) and coloring wall I think they most definitely did that.
You’re not invited: navigating kids’ parties and Facebook
Offbeat Bride ran a piece last month that touched on an interesting phenomenon: with social media usage so prevalent, we now have to deal with how our friends will discuss out parties online. More specifically, how people who were invited to an event or party will talk about it after it happens, and how people who weren’t invited will react. This can either be awesome, and people don’t really think it’s a big deal that they weren’t invited, or… it can suck.
Turning five is all the sweeter with a homemade Ms. Pac-Man cake
When my friend invited us to her daughter’s fifth birthday and I found out that it was partially Ms. Pac-Man-themed I soon thereafter asked if I could snap a few shots of the day. The birthday was held at a local pizza shop, which was awesome for the kids and adults in attendance — kids snacked on pizza and adults had coffee and beer. Birthday party win!
A preteen’s Mad Hatter Tea Party-themed birthday party
A few years ago, I came to the realization that my daughter was growing quicker than I could keep up. She was entering sixth grade — whilst we grow a culture of the “young at heart,” we knew that this was not going to fly with her peers for much longer. We decided to turn her Alice in Wonderland obsession into a fête, and began planning a Mad Hatter Tea Party for our daughter’s twelfth birthday.
Brigsby’s theme-free bad-ass birthday bonanza
Brigsby is known around these parts for having a pretty rad carnivalesque room, so it should come as no surprise that his recent birthday party was nothing short of cool.