Birthday Celebration at Together in Motion

Ok, here's the third and final chapter in the story of Vince's first birthday (can you tell we only have one kid... the next one won't get this much attention I'm told)! On Saturday we invited about 40 people and 18 kids to come help celebrate with Vince at Together in Motion. We originally had thought about Vince's first birthday party as being a fun couple of hours in the park with friends and kids, able to hang out on the grass and the playground. Well hello!! What is up with the weather out here people!? I'm getting sick of the clouds and the rain!! Don't even get me started on the weather out here in New England....

Anyway, we ended up scrambling at the last minute to find an indoor place to move the party so we wouldn't have wet kids running all over the place outside! We found this great little kids space area that has all sorts of obstacle course blocks and giant balls for kids to play with. Sort of like a giant padded crib or indoor playground where you can let your kids run around like crazy! Needless to say, it was pretty much a perfect spot to have a party. All of Vince's friends had a blast in the play area (crawlers and walkers alike), while there was also space for adults to chill out and talk in another room and look into the play area where their little monkeys were getting crazy. All the kids made it through the party without a hitch, minus one casualty of our friends little girl falling face first into the ground..... right at the edge where the play mat stopped and the cement started. Nothing that a little watermelon and cake couldn't fix. Let the photos begin:

Here's the tunnel, one of Vince's favorites

Following one of the older kids through the tunnel

Vince and Isaac scale the stairs

Getting some help across the bridge from his favorite sitter Kathryn

Two sets of twin girls! (Clio and Elsa, and Natalie and Megan)... quickly became friends and played ring around the Rosie


They couldn't wait to get to the falling down part

And now to the cake... well, we forgot to take a photo of our masterpiece watermelon cake before Vince mangled it... you can sort of see the other half on the table in the background of the picture! Mike had the idea when we discovered how much Vince loves watermelon. It was complete with colored cream cheese frosting- with white and green for the rind, and raisins for the seeds! Mike and I are soo bad at thinking about taking pictures!!

Adam's helping out

We forgot to take any sort of photos of any of the two cakes we had... let alone any photos with his grandparents who were at the party! But at least someone helped us remember to get a family photo with the first birthday hat on...