Last weekend we celebrated my wonderful little man's 4th Bday, Elephant and Piggie style! The birthday boy requested that we use his party to promote families belonging together. So we used Gerald, Piggie, Duckling, and Pigeon to tell the story of family togetherness. The beautiful photos were taken by Tequila Graphics.
The royal icing cookies always take the longest, so I made these 2 weeks in advance. This was my first time making the cookie cutters myself. I really like how they turned out. Will definitely continue to make my own cutters in the future.
I made these cookies the night before the party as a last-minute edition. They are chocolate-covered double stuffed Oreos. You can't get nearly the same detail as you can with the royal icing with melted chocolate, but they are still super cute and literally take 10% of the time it takes to make the royal icing ones.
This painting was inspired by The Thank You Book by Mo Willems. I painted this in the days leading up to the party as my gift to Elí. I also made a slightly modified version of this, with less prominence to "Elías's bday" and added the big heading EVERYONE IS WELCOME HERE, which I turned into 11x17 printed posters for the kids to decorate at the party and hang up at their own homes.
This painting featuring Elephant, Piggie, Duckling, and Pigeon, was Adán, my wonderfully creative 6 yr old son's gift to his brother.
At the request of Elías, I started by making his vanilla buttercream cake blue and then realized that it looked very similar to Adán's painting. So I decided to add grass, and then made cut-outs of his characters from his painting on my diecutter, and added them as toppers to the cake. Adán was so proud :).
A few days before the party, our ped put my son on a lactose-free diet (due to tummy aches) which meant he couldn't enjoy any of the royal icing sugar cookies, chocolate covered pretzels, chocolate covered Oreos, or the main cake, so I made him this extra special decadent lactose-free, gluten-free chocolate cake, with delicious vegan buttercream icing with Gerald and Piggie fondant cake toppers to match his painting. He LOVED it :).
I actually never finished this painting. I started it with the intention that it would be a photo backdrop for the kids. But I had open wall space and this fit perfect, so we went with it.
Party prep: Elías Sesame Street Crayons and Dorthy royal icing cookies
The birthday boy and his abuelito
The birthday table
Rainbow pound cake with Italian buttercream frosting
Birthday brother eating cake
The Sesame Street birthday family
Chocolate Elmo lollipops
Royal icing Elmo cookies
Diecut Sesame Street Banners
Sesame Street Fruit and Vegetable trays
Watermelon cake for the birthday boy
Party prep: Chocolate covered crayons pretzels
Awesome El Mundo de Elías birthday sign made by Nico
Party prep: Sesame Street diecut bunting flags
Party prep: Sesame Street diecuts
Party prep: Cakestands
My little boy delighted that we FINALLY allowed him to eat a royal icing cookie.
The desert table.
The chocolate fondant soccer ball cake.
Chocolate soccer ball lollipops.
Royal icing cookies.
Our family in full FC Barcelona gear.
The epic FCB fruit platter made by my dear friend Lamia.
Custom plates for the birthday boy.
Our awesome photographer also wore FCB gear.
Chocolate soccer balls.
I wish I had more time to decorate the porch, but with two small children I had to pick my "battles" and decided to focus my energy on the inside. However my wonderful papi made the impossible happen and somehow magically jerry rigged this flag into place. And I would be remiss if I didn't mention the DELICIOUS tacos from 
And of course my little Messi periodically stopped partying and got in some serious kicks.Stay tuned for photos of my second son's first birthday coming in August. This will be our second Elmo themed birthday, as my first son also celebrated his 
