Birthday Party for Thing One and Two!!!

The boys' birthday was a Thing One and Thing Two theme, which was a lot of fun putting together. Jessica opened up her house for our celebration and it was perfect!

These cupcakes were the catalyst for my decision to choose the Dr. Seuss theme. I saw them on a blog and fell in love with how cute they were. Not too hard either, once I drove all over the city looking for blue cotton candy. I just baked red velvet cupcakes, printed out thing one and two circles and glued them on the red liners, iced them with white icing, and then pulled apart strips of blue cotton candy to look like their crazy hair.
They were cute, really cute, but they literally lasted a matter of seconds before the cotton candy started to melt together and minutes until it was just a flat glob of blue on top of the cupcakes. Enlarge the picture of the table and you can see my pitiful creations!

I also made these little Cat in the Hat cookies. They were just white-iced sugar cookies with stacked life savers and cinnamon discs. Kind of an odd flavor combination, but if great taste had been my end game, we probably would have needed to eliminate several key ingredients to the evening's menu. Blue cotton candy being an obvious start.
Thing One's (born at 3:59) cake and stuffie.
Thing Two's (born at 4:02)
Our treat bags.
Amazing to think that it has been a year since the first time I held these two sweet Things.

The kids got to make their own Cat in the Hat hats, and Claire was happy to model hers with Thing Two.
She gave him a turn, but he was not in love with the experience.
He did love showing off his birthday shirt and his awesome free standing skills.
Big Sister camped out on the counter for a while next to the chip bowl.

Aunt Hailey might have been playing one of her favorite games titled, "Drop the Baby". It does not, however, actually involve dropping the baby!
Birthday hats on! Thing One and Two bibs secured! It's go time! Where's dinner??
Melissa, Josh and Gabe got to come to the party which brought much joy to Laney's heart. They sat together to eat their soup and were cracking each other up!

As always Laney and Josh played a hysterical game of chase. Josh is not in this picture, so I guess he was being chased by Laney at this time.

They moved on to some wagon riding and pushing. They had so much fun together and then with Ella Grace who arrived a little later. So glad that Laney got to have fun with her friends!
I am seeing a pattern of pictures of my children looking up adoringly at Aunt Cait.
Pops and Nae Nae drove all the way from Cona after work to make it to the boys' party. Definitely not an easy task! It meant so much to me to have them there! I think that Miles was pretty thrilled to get to see his Pops too.......

Bobbis and Kevin gave the boys these little motorcycles! They are rockers right now, but they convert to little trikes that have a push bar, so we can push them. Then they convert to just plain trikes. So cool!
Time to open the rest of their presents!!!! So much fun!


Love this worried expression. Miles's forehead crinkles together exactly like mine does. I have seen pictures of myself as a child looking exactly like this. Poor guy, the wrinkles that await you....
Bobbis grabbed Sam for some of the present opening. The boys were working a little close to their bedtime, so there was a bit of neediness happening. Luckily there were plenty of people on hand to help keep them in good spirits!
Miles got some Aunt Jessa love!

Pops snagged a little snuggle time with Bones just before it was cake time!!!
We had such an amazing night with our friends and family. Our kids are so blessed to be loved so well by so many!