2nd Birthday: Sesame Street

Somehow ButterBean is 2 years old! He is growing up so fast and each day more of his personality emerges. He is one of the funniest people I know!
His love of all things Elmo/Abby/Sesame Street prompted the theme for his 2nd birthday party: Sesame Street! I had so much fun planning this party!

Decorations were easy because it seems that every party store has a section dedicated to Sesame Street. Any bold primary colors work for this party! I picked up some plates, napkins, balloons, and table cloth at Party City. Michaels provided some cute little cardboard cutouts in the scrapbooking section. We had the party at Gatsby's work since our house would not accomodate the amount of people we expected to come. 

The food was the most fun to make. I made the same turkey sandwiches that I made for his first birthday (big success both times). We also had Abby Magic Fairy wands -- fruit on bamboo skewers

Burt & Ernie veggie sticks with Ranch dressing

Big Bird popcorn puffs (ButterBean gags on  the hulls of popcorn, so we had to get the puffy kind)

Goldfish crackers in honor of Elmo's goldfish, Dorothy. I considered getting ButterBean a real goldfish for his birthday, but I decided I didn't want to take care of one!

Elmo and Big Bird crackers and Sesame Street juice boxes were picked up at Babies R Us on a diaper run, but you can find those lots of places. 

For dessert we had Cookie Monster Cookies and Elmo cupcakes. 

The kids played Oscar's Trash Toss, which was just throwing crumpled news paper into my tiny compost bucket that looks like a mini trash can. Running up and down the hallway was another favorite!

 ButterBean got more presents that we know what to do with! It's time for a toy purge in this house!

I had a great time with this party and most importantly, I think ButterBean did too!

After the party ButterBean insisted I put a tie on him!

party favors!!

Sweets Bakeshop

Mmmm! Cupcakes and French macarons: 2 wonderful goodies that I could eat in large quantity. Today I treated myself to both. I had to run an errand into St. Paul, which conveniently brought me close to Sweets Bakeshop, a tiny little bakery that makes pretty much just cupcakes and macarons. I picked up this little beauty

A S'more cupcake! A chocolate ganache filled graham cracker cupcake topped with toasted meringue. Yum yums! I even ended up with some "marshmallow" on my cheek like I would with a real s'more. And they come in such a cute little to-go-box! Here's a look inside

These cupcakes aren't very large, so you don't have to feel too guilty eating it! But, because it was small I figured I could sneak in a little macaron too. I'd show a picture of the perfect little salted caramel macaron, however I popped it in my mouth as soon as I got in the car. Hehe!

Speaking of sweets...

I could eat him up!