Meeska, Mooska, Mickeeeeeeeeey Mouse! Somewhere along the way Noah has grown quite fond of Mickey Mouse, his Clubhouse and all of his friends. Its been pretty interesting to watch a baby, recognize and get excited over a character he sees. If we ask “Do you want to watch Mickey?” he squeals in delight. He loves his Mickey toys or anything he sees with Mickey printed on it. The hot dog dance makes him bop bop bop bop, and Tootles is always sure to make Noah smile! So it wasn’t hard to come up with a theme for his first birthday party.
I made a “Happy Birthday Noah” banner complete with Disney font, and Mickey Mouse silhouette cutouts. Bright colored tissue paper balls hanging from the ceiling, red/black/white gift bags, Mickey Mouse Brownie pops complete with a red and white polka dot ribbon and another Disney inspired banner “Birthday Boy” hanging on his high chair brought the theme together. But the focal point (besides the birthday boy of course) was most definitely his over the top, entirely too large birthday cake.
I intended on starting the decorating process on this cake on Friday - I took the day before off from work, but unexpectedly had to go in for a 3 hour meeting… right before the meeting , I started to feel a migraine coming on. Needless to say, this all set me back on the actual cake decorating. Frantically on Saturday morning I scrambled to get this cake decorated – and it definitely did not turn out as well as I had planned. The bottom cake is chocolate with my home made ganache, the middle tier is a white cake with simple white frosting, and the top tier/giant cupcake/Noah’s smash cake was a chocolate cake with simple white frosting.
The giant cupcake is actually made in two separate pieces, and silly me – I forgot to level the bottom of the top part of the cupcake before I frosted it. So, I had my husband get more frosting and try to cover the gap between the two parts of that cake… A project I probably should have taken the reigns on…
Oh well – the cake was still a hit. The party was fun. I stressed out waaaaaay too much over a party that was A) only 2 hours long and B) a party that Noah will never even remember …
Happy First Birthday to my little Love Bug. You are the very best thing!
Oh well – the cake was still a hit. The party was fun. I stressed out waaaaaay too much over a party that was A) only 2 hours long and B) a party that Noah will never even remember …
Happy First Birthday to my little Love Bug. You are the very best thing!
I love you,
Mommy
Tam a Lam
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