Today I have an EXTREMELY serious topic to discuss. I’m having a horrible time making a decision about some life-altering choices, so I thought the best thing to do was to seek some input. First things first:
Apparently, I am way behind on planning Micah’s first birthday party. I have no theme, and no cake choice made yet. Scoff if you must, but apparently I’m delinquent in my psychotic, obsessive, birthday-crazy mommy duties. Here are the ideas I’ve had so far – please feel free to throw out a few additional ideas!
- Jungle Animals (maybe complete with some jungle trees and vines, lions, elephants, tigers, etc.
- Barn/Farm Animals
- Elmo
- Doggy
- First Birthday Theme – “hugs and stitches”
Now, on to my next critical “life or death” decision – what should Micah be for Halloween this year? He has a costume party birthday to attend on Halloween, and of course we’ll have to take him trick or treating, and I figure he’ll look adorable in his costume for his 10 month photos. Apparently, everyone in our playgroup has already bought a costume, and we need to catch up! Here are a few of my thoughts, but please feel free to propose your own recommendations:
- Some kind of cute & cuddly animal. I’ve seen penguins, monkeys, lions, teddy bears, leopards, tigers, frogs, bunnies, chicks . . . what do you think?
- Elmo – they must have elmo costumes, right?
- Bam Bam – Micah keeps banging everything, so we thought it was appropriate
Finally, last, but not least, I am in the process of buying a new cell phone. I use my cell phone for both personal and work. I use the internet and check my email on a regular basis. I was debating getting the iphone, but I really like having a tactile keyboard (the onscreen iphone keyboard just doesn’t quite cut it, and the service for AT&T kind of sucks here). I have now narrowed my choices down to:
- Palm Pre
- Blackberry Curve
Do any of you have these phones? What do you think? I currently have a Palm, so I do like their phones. The Pre has a touch screen with some cool features/capabilities and a slide out keyboard. The Blackberry would give me easier access to email, has a smaller screen, and everything is operated with the little mouseball on the front – no touch screen access. Decisions, decisions!
Hopefully, by the time this post goes up, I’ll have set up some polls for you on the right-hand side of my blog so you can vote on these serious questions!
Hmm–my daughter’s first birthday was a very small family affair with a horrible wheat, dairy, and egg-free (I still hadn’t introduced those items) applesauce muffin that disintegrated upon touch. I probably am not the best person to give advice. If I had to do it all over again, I think I would throw a bigger party because I like doing that. You can’t go wrong with cupcakes. You could always just pick a general color theme, get about 20 latex balloons in that and another color, get paper products to match, and call it good. For her second birthday, we did ladybug everything.
As for Halloween, I say go to consignment sales this fall to get the costume–whatever you find that fits is his outfit. 🙂 Good luck! These are fun times.