I can't believe my adorable big baby is already 1 year old! I had so much fun planning his birthday party! My family thinks I may have gone temporarily insane and gotten slightly carried away....but I think it was awesome! I like to refer to the experience as my first post-Pinterest Birthday Party! We went with a Dr. Seuss theme basically because I love Dr. Seuss, but so do my kids. I love how timeless his stories are, I read them as a kid and now I read them to my kids! Plus his illustrations are so fun and have tons of color! The basic colors he sticks to are red, white, blue and yellow, so I started with those colors, and went from there! I made this onesie with my embroidery machine. I was able to fin "Cat in the Hat" fabric at Fields Fabric and appliqued the 1 onto the shirt. Then I added Carters name in curly-q letters. I think it turned out pretty cute. If you don't have an embroidery machine and want to do something like this you can always iron transfer (or call Justine's Surprise!). Using my basic colors I bought lots of balloons! I filled up 20 for the photo shoot to do the balloon wall, and 80 for the birthday party. I am very thankful that my vacuum has an attachment that changes flow and blows up balloons! (Or air mattresses for my family to sleep on!) I then strung the balloons using yarn and a needle in a pattern. I surrounded the dining area with my balloon garland, and also had a 20 foot long garland going down the center of my tent outside! It looked so cool, but some popped when it got up to 96 degrees outside! From this angle you can see the tables covered, again in my basic colors. You can also see my truffula trees off to the side! All supplies for the truffula trees and table covers were purchased at the dollar store! I used the dollar store quite a bit to keep decorations budget low! The tops of the truffula trees are made from Martha Stewart's tissue paper pom pom tutorial. http://www.marthastewart.com/how-to/tissue-paper-pom-poms-how-to I then attached them to dollar store swim noodles! To add another touch from "The Lorax" I made moustache straws! I just made a basic moustache template and then traced them onto foam paper and cut them out. They are hot glued onto the straws. The kids and some of the adults loved using them. For my favors I got basic brown lunch sack bags from the dollar store...I have alot left! Inside the bags I put some juju fish in all different colors, "One Fish, Two Fish Red Fish, Blue Fish", in baby food jars. I also had some bubbles and a Dr. Seuss eraser. I found the "Cat in the Hat" hat cutouts at Michael's along with the erasers. I also found all different characters from Dr. Seuss books and they were all over the house. I double sided taped the hats to the outside of the bags and then folded over the top, hole punched and tied with a ribbon! The party hats are also hand made. I used my basic colors and cut them out of cardboard scrap booking paper. http://funfamilytips.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Make-a-Birthday-Party-Hat-Free-printable-template I found a birthday picture of Thing 1 and Thing 2 and printed them off and taped them to the front of my hats. I hot glued a piece of yarn to hold them on the head! I made Carters welcome sign using inspiration from Etsy and Pinterest. I don't know if you know this, but you can download Dr. Seuss font for free to your computer! Here is one of the cardboard cutouts i found at Michael's! Above it you can kind of see the birthday pennant banner I made for Carter. Here is my front door entrance with truffula trees and the welcome sign! My friend Sophia made the cupcakes!She did a great job! They were adorable and tasted great too! Let me know if you want her info! To go with our cupcakes we had some normal snack, but also multi-colored goldfish and I made a "One fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish tag, and gummy bears with a brown Bar-ba-loot sign.The blue and white polka dotted plates and napkins came from the Dollar store as well! The Cat in the Hat showed up to play with the kids (my father in law did this as a surprise!) Carter enjoyed his cupcake, probably in the most delicate manner I have ever seen him eat. He even wore the special party hat I made him! I wrote up a poem to ask the adults to leave a note for Carter in a copy of Dr. Suess' "Happy Birthday To You!" that I picked up. If you can't read it from this picture it says "Thank you for celebrating my birthday, I was so elated to see you today! It's hard to believe I am already 1, But I am sure it will be tons of fun! Please open this book and leave me a note, I can't wait to be able to read what you wrote!" I also made up some Thank Yous for the adults using a picture of Carter from our balloon photo shoot. I wrote a little poem saying "Today was good, Today was Fun, Thank you for celebrating me turning 1! -Carter" I looked on Etsy at first to find a Dr. Seuss themed thank you and then realized they would just give you the digital file for $12 to go print. I just went to Snapfish and looked up Dr. Seuss and they had this style available. You just added your picture and your own words. They had lots of other styles too, this one just went with my theme! Carter ended the party riding his favorite toy, I mean playing with his dog Sweetie!