Sunday, August 2, 2009

Monkey Business

We are just going bananas over Cooper this weekend because he is turning one! We celebrated with a monkey themed party. We kept with our standard tradition of celebrating first birthdays' on Uncle Brant's back porch. Coop did not stick to the standard baby's approach of gingerly playing in the cake. He dove head first into it. Neither Connor nor Caroline ever attacked their cake like Coop did. The boy's eyelashes were even covered. Cake was everywhere. But don't take my word for it, here see it for yourself. I have a before and after shot of the cake.

He's not monkeying around when it comes to cake!

I wanted to make cupcakes with banana candy on top. We looked everywhere for Runt's candy. My candy loving expert, Jeanne, gave us the idea to hit up the Jiffy store for some Runt's and we found one box left with exactly the amount of banana candy I needed.

We had yummy Sonny's for dinner with some homemade banana pudding!

Connor & Caroline both wore monkey shirts to celebrate Coop's big day. I had to share these comical shots of Caroline having a little meltdown.



It was nice having the grandparents there to celebrate too!




Happy Birthday Coop, Mommy & Daddy are so proud of you!


7 comments:

Jeanne said...

It was a "one"derful day! Cooper was so dadgum cute! I love your page in honor of Coop! You are just so thematic it's nuts! Glad I could be of assistance with the candy. I love you all dearly and can't wait to talk to you after school tomorrow! :)

The Light's, party of 4 said...

Oh, Jenny. He is growing so quickly. It looks like the celebration was lots of fun. Sorry we missed it. We were in North Carolina seeing Amy and the girls. Thanks for the invitation. Happy Birthday Cooper!!

Deborah said...

such cute pictures! so sorry i couldn't make it. Coop is so cute!

Janet said...

Looks like it was a great party - love the monkey theme and the banana cupcakes! Cooper sure enjoyed that cake, too! Can you believe you're not pregnant on one of your children's first birthdays??????? You know I'm just kiddin ya girl!

lori said...

Love pictures. Cooper is so cute. He sure loved him some cake!

Jill said...

Whew, I am so glad my kids are older, because I could not hold a candle to your themed birthday bashes...you are awesome. I love love love all the whoopla. Sorry we missed it...As usual you are handling all these changes with such grace, and example for us all.

Samantha said...

Jenny! Your camera is awesome!! Those pics of the cake and Coop are perfect....it was even better seeing it in person....we had a great time catching up with everyone. Thanks for the invite!