Abe and I threw our very first birthday party this Saturday and Alex was the man of the hour--or two hours I should say. We celebrated his first birthday with a small family and friends gathering at our house on Saturday afternoon. It was the most perfect weather we could have asked for, with temperatures around 70 degrees. That's amazing for early March! After having a blizzard on Monday, I was really worried too. But I had no reason to be. We kept all of the windows open and Alex actually had to wear hs Easter vest and a pair of shorts, because his special birthday outift was too hot for the weather. Lots of people showed up and we had a feast and enjoyed eating cake and watching Alex shovel some cake in his mouth. We also had a Blues Clues pinata, which thorougly entertained the kids! Daniel was the lucky winner who released the candy and then all 6 big kids--Dylan, Daniel, Tristan, Rebekah, Matthew and Ava scrambled to pick up candy. Some kids had a strategy (Matthew went for the M&M's and Ava rounded up the Twix), while others just went for anything. Alex got so many nice presents too! We handed out favors, and made special "baby" favors for our three under 1 girls (Natalia, Julia, and Charlye). All in all it was a great celebration of our special little guy! He's becoming so independant lately. Taking a few steps, and saying a few words. He said his first word besides Mama and Dada today. When playing with his Thomas train in the bathtub. He said "Choo, choo!" repeating after me.Now when I show it to him, he says "Choo. Choo!" I can't believe he's 1 already. The year has just gone by so fast! There are many pictures of the big day, so I will make a slide sho, but enjoy the few I am posting with this!
Covered in cake reaching for his balloon
Abe, Alex and Blue before his head was severed
The adorable cake Mary and Dave picked out
Alex with his own little smash cake
I had to post this--look at Julia's little pose! LOL.
We decided we're going to take a picture in front of our birthday flag every year!
Me, Mary and our switched kids
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