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14 months Old|Hello Nixon 6 Weeks Post-Op
Same old, same old – how time flys – yadda yadda, but really? Six weeks? Thank you so much for all of your kind messages and concern it has meant so much to us! The good news is…………..Nixon is doing amazingly well! His little bowel that …
Nixon’s First Birthday Party
Bunting Stickers for cake topper from Typo
So initially when I realised that Nixon was indeed going to turn one against my wishes, I was planning on having a “small, easy party”.
Maybe we would just invite friends and no extended family? Or just family and no friends? Trying to decide who to invite eventually saw Dave and I drinking too much wine and deciding “we will invite EVERYONE!”. Problem solved.
I actually really enjoyed planning this party, and I pulled off most things on my wish list with only two exceptions. {View my Pinterest Board here}
Nix’s fave things are diggers so the colour scheme was pretty easy; yellow, black, white and silver. I shopped for all of the decor items plus plates, cutlery, cups, tablecloths etc from Pop Roc Parties and the Look Sharp store in Albany – that place is amazing when you are working to a colour theme!
To make things easier we kept the menu really simple, I mean really simple. I have no pics of the food, but Dave had the great idea to create a mini Subway sandwich station. All that was required was a selection of cold meat, sliced cheese, a variety of bread, salad items and condiments. We served coleslaw and potato salad with potato chip mini packs on the side. Drinks on offer were bottled water, lemonade, beer and wine, and the desert table was also pared right back to cake, cupcakes, cookies, fruit kebabs and a slice. Having no hot dishes meant there was no fussing in the kitchen during the party which made being able to chat with our 40 guests actually possible!
Large Blackboard Bunting $21 from Pop Roc Parties
Mini Flourish Blackboard Stand $3.50 Pop Roc Parties
Cupcake cases and yellow road cones from Look Sharp
I LOVE Origrami prints so decided to showcase the first year of Nixon’s life by hanging my prints on some little clotheslines with mini wooden pegs from The Warehouse.
I pre-ordered some helium balloons from Look Sharp so Dave just had to whip out and pick them up on the morning of the party.
Tassel garlands are fab, but this DID take longer than I anticipated {it could have been that I just really don’t enjoy paper based craft!}. There are heaps of tutorials online so just find one that you can make sense of and have a go.
Oh the cake! I have a go-to, never fail cake recipe that a neighbour gave me years ago. It is more caramel than chocolate and it rises beautifully. I went a bit OTT and layered two cakes with milk chocolate black forest ganache and iced with buttercream. A bit TOO rich! I will post the recipe soon.
So, hey……It’s Monday!
………………and we’re not at Starship, and Nix is not having his op today. Remember in my last post about poop {sorry about all the poop posts, it pretty much rules our lives at the moment!} I mentioned 2-5 massive bouts of diarrhea per day? Well, …
Hello Nixon | 8 Months
Wowsers. That was a hard month boy {hence post is 20 days late, pic was on time though!}. No lie. We have both been sick, you have another tooth {and more on the way} and you somehow managed to sleep through and IN your first …
Hello Nixon | 7 Months Old
Oh son you are starting to scare the bejeezus out of us.
You are constantly in motion. Not like a leaf-on-a-tree-swaying-in-the-breeze kinda motion, more like a frantic-bull-on-the-streets-of-Pamplona kinda motion. I can’t even believe I managed to snap pics of you this month. You are one busy beaver.
It’s been a bit of a rough month to be honest, but you are always smiling, despite waking every 2 hours in the night, but you and I had a little stay-cation this weekend and fingers crossed some serious routine-tweaking has put those difficult nights behind us.
You have really garnered some strong opinions about your food in the last 10 days. You have absolutely no time for any chunky food, and will lock you lips down so tight and refuse to eat if the is even a hint of a mushy pea in your bowl. You be a baby as long as you want, I won’t mind I promise x.
Your favourite things are doors – safe I know! You love laying on your belly, one hand on the door, the other supporting your impressive girth, just swinging the door back and forth. I watch your carefully so we don’t have any accidents as you so love trying to figure out what that big ol heavy hard thing does and why we have so many of them in our house.
Your dogs have got you pretty pegged at this point. They have seen how quickly you can chase a vacuum cleaner when you want to taste it, so they are giving you a pretty wide berth these days. Your grabby little paws are like lightening when there is a doggy tail or ear in the vicinity to yank on.
Commando crawling is fully operational. You have mastered downward dog pose and get up on all fours ready to crawl but haven’t quite figured out how to make those knees start moving. This is no handicap to you as you can propel yourself around the house just fine thank you very much.
We love you, we love you, we love you.
It has been so special introducing you to your fab Aunt Kaley and Granddaddy Jack this week. They have come all the way from Florida to kiss your cheeks while you scream DADA at them and I’m pretty sure they think you are ace.
xx
