Trevor's Birthday Party

There is a lot of pressure when planning your child's first birthday party. I felt is was a defining moment in my Motherhood experience. We have gotten him through his first year safe and healthy with minimal bumps and bruises, that in itself is something to celebrate. I started thinking about what the "theme" of this very important event might be. Everyone that knows me knows I am all about themes. Trevor is 1, he isn't "into" anything so it came down to what I am "into." I am not really into the regular toy themes and wanted to do something a little different. Boys are much harder than girls I found. I started thinking about food as this would be an important factor when feeding potentially 60 people. (Our families are big, what can I say!) I thought ham is easy and something most enjoy. Well, then it came to me, Green Eggs and Ham......Dr. Seuss! Trevor has a number of his books and Vic and I tend to gravitate toward those when reading him his bedtime stories. Perfect! I did a ton of research online as I wanted to make sure the theme was apparent in all aspects of his party.


This is what I came up with. I did spend a great deal of free time on his party but I think it was worth it. My little man seemed to love it and everyone who attended seemed to have a pretty good time!

Funniest part, Trevor will never remember it. Luckily, we took a LOT of pictures!

The cake was going to be the main piece of the party. Something that you could look at and know exactly what the party was all about. I did a madhatter style cake by baking 6 layers, 3 -8 inch and 3 - 9 inch rounds. Made buttercream icing from scratch (chocolate, vanilla and vanilla with a hint of orange). I decided to use buttercream for the blue, I thought it would look and taste better for the water. I made marshmallow fondant for the white and piped some accents on with more blue. The fish and water droplets were made my me and my Dad. Dad did a GREAT job on the fish. The fish idea was from One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish Blue Fish. They were all created with gumpaste. I spentabout 4 hours the night before the party putting all the pieces together. From baking the cakes to making the frosting, this process had been going on for two weeks. It went together smoothly ( I was shocked) and turned out a lot like I had planned. I took some pictures, covered it in a large plastic bag to keep it fresh, left it on the dining room table and went to bed.

I came downstairs about 6 am. I looked on the table and there was no cake. I called for my Vic (my husband) and asked if he moved the cake. He comes running out and said "no, why?" My stomach dropped. I walked closer and saw a bit of the plastic bag sticking up from the chair. It's almost like in CSI, when someone walks in the room and sees a foot sticking out from behind the couch. The cake had toppled off of the table (I left it as you see it in the picture) and fell into the chair. At this point, all I could do was laugh. To this day, I am still wondering how it got from the position you see it in the picture to being in the red chair behind it. I will probably never know. I am working on trying to use the motto "it is what it is" more and more. This is one of the times I put it to good use. I pulled out the cake, see next couple pictures, and was able to salvage the top. I had two boxes of cake in the cuboard and started baking. Vic ran to the store and got frosting. Everyone was getting a piece of Betty Crocker sheet cake for the party!

I realized that the story ended up being so funny that it was almost better that this incident happened. Everyone got a laugh out of it and I think there was more talk and laughs about the cake this way than if everything had worked as planned!

Dr. Seuss books were set on the tables and through out the house.

There is a Banner on the window that Trevor's cousin made him saying " Happy Birthday Trevor." Kyle is 7 and one of the most practical kids you'll ever meet. He told me that he did not put his age on the banner so we could use it in the coming years!

Food: Don't forget the PID's!

The menu consisted of: Green Eggs (deviled) and roasted Ham, Who Hash (cheesy potatoes), vegetables (including Lorax trees made from carrots and peppers), relish tray, chips, pretzels, a crumb too small for even a mouse, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish (gummy fish in a fish bowl), mints, peanuts, cake and ice cream.

I always think I should make more but we had an entire ham left over!!!!

Lorax Trees made from peppers and carrots.

Fish Bowl, very popular with the kids.

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Green Deviled Eggs

Have to have PIDs (Product Identifiers). This is a work thing! :)

From the Grinch!

My happy little boy digging into his top layer of the cake!

Thank you to everyone that helped me make Trevor's birthday so special!!!