The great party prep day. Holy freakin’ shiz I never knew how much work this all was. Baking cakes and cupcakes and cookies and making thank you bags, putting together the baby book and the slideshow and the one game I wanted to play. Oh yeah, two. There will be two games. More on that later. But the streamers and the cleaning and the laundry so that I don’t have to do laundry tomorrow. I wanted it all to be done today so that tomorrow I can actually wake up and just enjoy my little boy’s day. Play with him on his birthday instead of ignoring him to run around and get things done.
Lots of work. (Super thanks to John and La La who baked and decorated and worked the media angle of the day, and Poppop who helped put Camper to bed and wrapped the presents.)
I think it’ll be fun. I don’t know how many people will come, but we’ll par-tay hard with whoever shows up. You know. Til naptime.
Tonight as I spend half an hour putting my baby to bed (to be followed by half an hour of Daddy and then half an hour of Poppop cuddling and then ten more minutes of me) I looked at him and was BLOWN AWAY. One entire year. I remember thinking that this day would be so far away, some sort of paradox…like Zenos (philosopher, not prophet) working on time in my own little life. As his paradox of motion goes: Surely we’d have to make it to 6 months before a year. 3 months before 6. And as it is bisected again and again we never get anywhere. We’d stay right where we started, all together and new and fresh.
This is so much better.
One year old. Definitely my favorite so far.
Wish us luck tomorrow, and lots of fun. I’ll post pictures of our preparation shenanagins when I get around to it.
(Tip: If you need a specific color M&M, do not buy Fun Packs. All I have to say.)
