Well there you go...

It's been 6 months. Where did that go? Oh yeah, soccer, school, Christmas ;)

Miss K turns 6 tomorrow! and she started Prep. And lost a couple more teeth.

Miss A is growing in leaps and bounds. Walking everywhere. Babbling lots. Loves her big sister.

Me, busy working on some reviews for here, starting a new blog, looking forward to becoming a great auntie in June.

We'll be back soon with a birthday wrap and some new reviews :)

and she turned into a beautiful butterfly

Like that our baby is one!

We had an awesome day and Miss A was totally spoiled.

Mum & Dad decorated their house

  

and there was loads of food

  

and cake

    

and of course our gorgeous little caterpillar

who was spoiled and got lots of new goodies including this

Now onto planning the next birthday (which is February for Miss K’s 6th!)

Decorating caterpillar style

Yes more party planning. This will be the last post about it before the actual party.

We’re keeping it pretty simple, some balloons, some streamers, a paper lantern caterpillar and a photo caterpillar.

Yet again Pinterest has heaps of ideas…

    

That's just some of my favourites. I’ll be sharing my decorating efforts after the party ;)

The Very Hungry Caterpillar ate some cake

and mummy went a little mad trying to work out which cake she would make

Yet again, Pinterest will be the death of me ;) so many cake options.

Do I do something fancy like these?

  

or something simpler like these?

   

or something really simple like a cupcake caterpillar?

 

What we’ve chosen will be a secret til the day of the party  ;)

A very hungry caterpillar went looking for some food

and found sooooo many ideas on Pinterest it wasn’t funny. Seriously, how many ways can you do food that is themed to the caterpillar?
I’m keeping it simple, mainly cause Miss K has soccer the morning of the party and I need to make it as easy as possible!
How much more simple than taking my cues from the story!!
In the light of the moon, a little egg lay on a leaf – devilled eggs on a bed of lettuce leaves

For Monday (one apple), Tuesday (2 pears), Wednesday (3 plums – thinking we might do grapes), Thursday (4 strawberries) and Friday (5 oranges) – a fruit platter
Saturday…

• chocolate cake – brownies
• ice cream cone – maybe small ice cream cones filled with something not ice cream or ice cream lollies
• pickle – not sure about this one
• Swiss cheese – and biscuits
• salami – maybe some twiggy sticks
• lollypop – mini lollipops?
• cherry pie
• sausage – mini savs
• cupcakes
• watermelon (on the fruit platter)

Sunday The Caterpillar ate through a nice green leaf – a salad
The cocoon – these nutella ‘cocoons’

A beautiful butterfly – butterfly sugar biscuits
I’d like to do something like these

but it will most likely be something like these

And somewhere in there I’ll do sandwiches. That look like this.

Oh and the cake, but that I’m saving for next time.

You can check out my ideas on my Very Hungry Caterpillar birthday Pinterest board

Our very hungry caterpillar turns 1

Miss A turns one in August and I thought it was high time I got to work on organising her birthday party. After many hours on Pinterest I decided on either a pink & gold theme or A Very Hungry Caterpillar. I showed a heap of pictures to Miss K to help me choose and finally we decided on A Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Over the next few weeks I’ll be sharing some ideas for invites, decorations, food and cake then after the party I’ll share our actual event.

Invitations can be a simple or as complex as you want. From bought invitations like these……

   

  

to handmade creations like these ……

     

we (read me) ended up making ours. Thank goodness for my Silhouette Cameo because I would have hated doing this by hand.

The first circle reads:

We can hardly believe a year has passed
Our little caterpillar has grown so fast
Join us for some afternoon tea & fun
Anastasia is turning ONE

The second circle has the date, time and location while the third has the RSVP details. I’ll include a recent photo of Miss A to the final circle.