{"id":94,"date":"2011-05-23T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/bday\/"},"modified":"2018-04-21T17:22:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T17:22:26","slug":"bday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/bday\/","title":{"rendered":"Bday."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So what does one do when it\u2019s 2 am and you can\u2019t sleep??&#160; Google 4 year old birthday party themes, that\u2019s what!!&#160; I almost can\u2019t believe it myself \u2013 is it possible that Charlie will really be 4 years old in September??&#160; (And yes, I do realize that it\u2019s only the end of May.&#160; I like to plan ahead <em>sometimes<\/em>.)  When she turned 1 we had a backyard Aloha <a href=\"http:\/\/www.almostjuliet.com\/2008\/08\/aloha.html\">extravaganza<\/a>.&#160; Then, when she turned 2 her party was \u201cCharlie and the Chocolate Factory\u201d themed and may I say, SO cute \u2013 right down to the golden ticket invitations, the fabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.almostjuliet.com\/2009\/08\/sweet-signature.html\">cake<\/a>, and the long researched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.almostjuliet.com\/2009\/08\/purple-pettiskirt-birthday.html\">outfit<\/a>.  Last year we had literally JUST moved and it was such a crazy time.&#160; I reluctantly decided to go low-key (for both girls, I might add, Ella had a teeny family party for her 1st birthday last November).&#160; It was so hard!!&#160;   I do realize that I am entering into the world of kid-chosen themes vs. mommy-chosen themes, but check out what I found anyway.&#160; Do you think I can talk her into any of these??  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purejoyeventsblog.com\/2010\/09\/dinofour-birthday-party.html\">DinoFour!<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hostessblog.com\/2010\/07\/real-parties-dino-roar-birthday\/\">DinoROAR!<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/cococakecupcakes.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/beautiful-birthday-for-brody.html\">Totoro<\/a> (Charlie is very recently into the \u201cJapanese Disney\u201d Studio Ghibli movies \u2013 Totoro, from \u201cMy Neighbor Totoro\u201d is a giant wood spirit.&#160; Yes, charming and trippy all at the same time.)  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hostessblog.com\/2011\/04\/down-in-the-garden-birthday-party\/\">Down in the Garden<\/a>  or, dare I suggest \u2013 a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hostessblog.com\/2009\/05\/babykids-party-theme-plush-penguin\/\">Kenga<\/a> party??  Which of these do you think matches my spunky girl\u2019s personality??  Oh!&#160; And you know what??&#160; My sis-in-law inspired me to potentially\u2026wait for it\u2026  <strong><em>make.my.own.cake<\/em><\/strong>.&#160;   Can you see me rolling out fondant and making little marzipan penguins??&#160; Now, THAT would be something to see!!&#160; Better keep the wine corked till after the fact!!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what does one do when it\u2019s 2 am and you can\u2019t sleep??&#160; Google 4 year old birthday party themes, that\u2019s what!!&#160; I almost can\u2019t believe it myself \u2013 is it possible that Charlie will really be 4 years old in September??&#160; (And yes, I do realize that it\u2019s only the end of May.&#160; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/1237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}