Fishcake
Saturday is Wombat's birthday (observed), and the theme is fish.*
I tried to teach him to do a fishface (fail), I tried to win the Publisher's Clearing House Sweepstakes so we could serve sushi (fail), and I tried to relinquish my crazymom stranglehold on the details by assigning Simon elements he could be in complete control of--food and music--(fail), but I nevertheless remain delusional confident! that there are enough other balls in the air (or I should say blow-up mermaids caught in fishnets hanging from the ceiling?) that everything's going to work out just fine.
Oh, but the plans I had! Fishbowls full of live specimens! A hand-sewn fish-patterned slipcover for the highchair! A Welkian bubble machine! Instead it's going to be crepe streamers left over from the baby shower, some balloons in a variety of aquatic shades if I can convince someone to fetch them for me, and a spread of dead and imitation fish for eating--Swedish, cracker, taco, and filet o'.** Everything else will be offered up in fish-shaped platters, bowls, and vases, a collection I never knew I had.
Although it's usually unfortunate when one's vision exceeds one's budget, in this case I can at least feel good that no tourists will have to be turned away from the Steinhart Aquarium because I've rented the place out and shoved the exhibits aside to make room for the cast of Disney's Finding Nemo: On Ice! (Does such a thing exist? Fish on skates? Come on, Eisner!) See, silver linings everywhere.
Three months old.
It's going to be good, though. Not "OMGblogging" good (say it with me: "ahmmgblogging"), but also not budget-shredding good, which makes sense considering the kid is only ONE. Yes, it's a big deal (which you would know from the way I make exclamation points with my hands and eyebrows and the pitch of my voice when I talk about him turning one; my god, how fast it all happened between this and this), but still, it's just one, just smooth-brained, slackjawed, mouthbreathing ONE, and I'm pretty sure it's not going to take a lot to impress him this time around. I imagine his mind is going to be blown by the chocolate cake alone (no, not fishcake, sillies), and after that, the rest is just turtle soup.
Two months old
*Simon is still grumbling about how uncool a stupid fish birthday is compared to something breakneck awesome like Hair Bands I Have Loved. I keep telling him that we can have a rock-and-roll theme for his birthday next month, but he insists that what makes certain things fun is when they're imposed upon children (see Devo baby), which, okay, point taken, as there's certainly a different vibe depending on which whether it's a one-year-old or a thirty-five-year-old wearing a fuzzy blue hat with bear ears, or, say, pawing at my chest in public.
**I'm still torn about whether it's sad/gross/awkward to throw a party celebrating something Wombat loves in its swimming form by serving it in its dead and breaded and delicious form. A few years ago my office had a launch party to celebrate the release of a birders' field guide, and the coworker in charge of the food showed up with individually roasted quail, which did not go over well at all.
I can't wait! And that last pic of you two is great. Also, way to go Ms. Crafty with the invites (I'm still waiting for the USPS to forward mine as they should, ha).
Also, Hot Tub Night can have a Hair Bands I Loved theme if Simon really wants. Though we'll have to think hard about which hair bands exactly performed in the buff (or modest bikinis).
Your co-worker's choice of quail was so misguided it is amazing. Poor thing.
The fish invites are v cute!
Did you make those invites? They're ADORABLE!
You know, this brings up so many larger questions about themed food. Why do we make Santa cookies and then, you know, ingest Santa? And yet, I love me some Santa cookies! We human are strange creatures indeed.
Can't wait for the bash!
SO impressed with your glitter glue skillz. That's dedication lady.
Just wanted to ask, are you sure about the chocolate cake choice? I'm sure you know his preferences but quick story time: My brother in law spent all morning baking the perfect chocolate cake for his son's first birthday and then my little nephew absolutely refused it. Thankfully there was a vanilla cupcake on standby he loved, but my poor BIL was crushed. Crushed!
There IS a Finding Nemo on Ice! I know because I caught sight of the billboard years ago and had a laughing fit because it sounded like the Stephen King adaptation, where Nemo's father visits the butcher shop and, well, you can guess the rest.
Looking forward to the fish sticks and the subsequent discussions of cannibalism, yea or nay?
Oh, you did so much better than I did with the 1st birthday. I made cupcakes and we had a cookout but I forgot to hand out the goodie bags I made for the kids and Jacob wouldn't even touch a cupcake. His grandma on his dad's side tried to insist that we needed theme decorations but we didn't really have money for that so I didn't do anything special. I guess I wasn't worried because he's not going to remember these parties yet.
Yay for a fish party. I adore your ideas. Also, yay for babywearing. I spy... :)
HA! I love the roasted quail story. Good times.
Wombats party is going to be awesome. I can't wait to see pictures.
I guess I need to come up with a theme for Sadie's party that's something other than "We Kept Her Alive For A Year!"
I might be weird but I crave sushi whenever I'm at the aquarium. Oops. Sorry Nemo!
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