Dr. Suess Baby Shower

WARNING: Long post with lots of pictures!

Two Saturday's ago my family hosted a baby shower for my sister, which was perfect because she ended up having the baby 6 weeks early! My sister and the baby are both doing well, and he is just adorable (makes me want another one!) okay not really but you know what I mean. As for the shower, she gave me free rein and I just love it when they just let me do whatever I want! So I Googled some ideas and found this idea from Kara's Party Ideas and just fell in love. Thanks to Ebay and Amazon I found a bunch of Dr. Seuss animals and books for reasonable prices, and got the rest of the decor and supplies form various other websites.

Here are the invitations I made:


I decorated the front door


And when you opened the door, there was the Cat to great you


I used the books and animals as the main decorations









Sneetches


Horton Hears a Who

Picture of the ultrasound with the quote "A person's a person no matter how small"

Oh, the Places You'll Go!


Found these lollipops at a bake shop and they matched perfectly! I made labels for the middle and tied them with a bow


Dr. Seuss's ABC's

My friend Gina makes THE BEST cookies ever! So I had her make some for the shower to go with the book. They were seriously SO good, you can't eat just one! You have to pop over and check out her website Lil G's Cookies, so yummy!

Cat In The Hat table


Cat In The Hat diaper cake

My first diaper cake I made, so super easy! 125 diapers with a Cat In The Hat baby toy on top.

Thing 1 & Thing 2 cupcake tower



Red Velvet cupcakes with cream cheese icing and blue cotton candy.

But beware, once you put the cotton candy on, the moisture from the frosting starts to melt the cotton candy, and after about an hour to an hour and a half they look like this...


Vinyl quotes from some books that I put on the walls.


Changed the word "funny" to "baby" since it was a baby shower

I also got a Dr. Seuss cook book with lots of recipes inspired from his books. Some of the recipes were a bit more elaborate, so I improvised and simplified them but used the same name. I put the book, animal, and a little quote from the book by each dish.




Schlopp with a Cherry on top

Yogurt Parfaits

Bar-ba-loots' Truffula Fruits

Fruit Tray

Kartoom Croquettes

Chicken Salad Sandwiches

Poodles with Noodles

Pasta Salad

Green Eggs & Ham

Deviled Eggs (dyed green) and Ham

Pink Yink Ink Drink

Strawberry Lemonade


We played guess how many fish are in the dish, and the winner got all the Swedish fish.

We also played some other games, Dr Seuss's Baby ABC's (had to name as many baby things that started with each letter of the alphabet), Dr Seuss's Baby Scramble (baby words scrambled up), and then we played a game were everyone had a folded up diaper (one had melted chocolate in it though) and they all passed the diapers right and left as I read a story. I tried to make the story all suessy by rhyming and stuff and then at the end everyone opened their diapers. The one with the messy diaper got a prize. For the prizes I went to Target and they had a bunch of Dr Seuss stuff for just a buck! So I got some tote bags and put a book and some other little seuss things in them.

The party favors were these little mini books with a matching pen tied in little cellophane bags with a tag.


The little note books were so adorable, I had to take pictures of them...





I made my sister a carseat canopy. I think they are a great idea, but kinda pricey for what they are. So I just went to Joann and picked up some fabric (she is the rocker type) and made a template off of my sister inlaws canopy, thanks Sherrie! It was actually really simple and easy to do. You can find lots of tutorials online for free too.




Just had to throw one last pic in with Avery playing with the balloons, she is so cute!

My sister was a bum and wouldn't let me take a picture of her wearing the cat hat, boo! But it was alot of fun and I hope she had a good time. Congrats Dez!

dinosaur museum

A couple weeks ago we went to the Dino Museum at Thanksgiving Point because they were celebrating 10 years. It was cute because they had all the dinosaurs dressed up with party hats and stuff. When Mason saw them he said, "Look Mom! They are all wearing party hats for my birthday!" He is so funny, and SO excited for his birthday next week. We had a great time. There was lots of crafts, games, prizes, face painting, and other various things for the kids to do.







GNOMES!!!

If you have been to the museum then you probably know about the 14 gnomes they have hidden around the museum, 7 are painted somewhere on walls and 7 are little 1-2 inch figures that are hidden in the exhibits. Those dreaded gnomes! I have finally given up looking for them! Luckily the painted ones don't move, but every time you find one of the figures, you go back and they are gone! The whole thing has tainted my museum experiences, so therefore I give up (Seriously Sherrie, I GIVE UP!) But for the rest of you, I will tell you where the painted ones are incase you decide to take on the quest... but don't read the rest of this post if you don't want to know.

In the hallway as you go to enter the exhibits:


In the Paleontology room:


On the cave in the room with the long neck dinosaurs:


In the Erosion room:




Enjoying the water table

The room with the giant turtle:


The Mammoth room:


And last, the sand room where you dig up the dino bones:



Side note:

Avery does NOT like that room!

Good luck to all those who take on this endeavor, let me know if you find any!