{"id":1104,"date":"2006-10-21T21:06:52","date_gmt":"2006-10-22T01:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2006\/10\/second-birthday-party\/"},"modified":"2006-10-21T21:06:52","modified_gmt":"2006-10-22T01:06:52","slug":"second-birthday-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2006\/10\/second-birthday-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Birthday Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to throw a two-year-old’s birthday party in three easy steps:<\/p>\n

1. Bake a Blue’s Clues cake and paw-print cupcakes.
\n2. Clean like a madwoman until the wee hours because your house (always) smells like dog.
\n3. Be so busy keeping tabs on the two-year-olds running around the house that you forget to take enough pictures.<\/p>\n

It’s a good thing Carrie’s real<\/i> birthday hasn’t happened yet, because I didn’t even get any pictures of her actually blowing out the candle. I was too busy making sure she didn’t get her hair\/dress\/hands\/nose in the flame and didn’t think to assign camera or video camera duty to anyone. This was the best Denis could get from where he was in the room – actually, even though you can’t see Carrie’s face it’s a really nice picture:
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\nDespite that, it was a fun party! Carrie really had a good time (minus two or three mini-meltdowns that are mostly a daily occurrence and were probably not related to the party) playing with her friends, charming her great-grandparents, and (of course) eating cake. There were some seriously blue hands and faces on those kids…<\/p>\n

The party was actually more dog-themed than Blue’s Clues-themed. If I’d thought, I could have put Carrie’s extensive collection of stuffed dogs and dog-related books out as part of the decorations. I didn’t even hang the streamers I bought though, just a birthday banner and some balloons.<\/p>\n

This year there were 31 people (including the three of us). This was a “small” party – it was just (some of) our immediate family and Carrie’s friends, none of our friends or cousins\/aunts\/uncles\/etc. I was sad not to invite everyone we did last year, but it’s just too much to have such huge parties every year. I think this one was borderline too stressful for Carrie, and next year we’ll have to split up the friends and family parties.<\/p>\n

There are more pictures here<\/a>. (Kodak Easy-Share Gallery, requires sign-in).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How to throw a two-year-old’s birthday party in three easy steps: 1. Bake a Blue’s Clues cake and paw-print cupcakes. 2. Clean like a madwoman until the wee hours because your house (always) smells like dog. 3. Be so busy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carolyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}