My Baby is ONE!

Well, my baby turned one today! I have to say that it wasn't quite the Birthday Celebration that I had hoped for. He has been sick for the last four days - and it is a pretty bad sickness, at that. The poor little guy has been miserable. We have been able to catch him for SOME fun when the medicine takes effect. However, we had scheduled his birthday party for yesterday and he wasn't much for celebrating. He had no appetite, so we didn't even try to give him his cake. Actually, speaking of the cake - that is another story...

I had a friend of ours make monkey cupcakes for Ethan's Birthday and a small cake for Ethan. The cake and cupcakes were in the box on a table in our kitchen. The night before his birthday Dakota, our dog, got her little nose INTO the box and got into Ethan's cake. I am sure one day I will laugh about all of this - but I was pretty mad at the time. James ended up going to VG's to get Ethan a new cake. We took one of the monkey faces from a cupcake and put it on his cake. 

Here are the original cupcakes and cake. I thought they were super cute!

Here is the invite that we sent out for Ethan's Birthday. My talented husband, James, made them on photoshop. :) We printed them out as a 5x7 photo invite.

Here are some pictures from Ethan's Birthday party. Like I said - he was pretty miserable - so he didn't show too much excitement at the time. However, as soon as everyone left his tylenol started working again. Then, he played with all of his toys until 9:00 (which is much later than his normal bedtime). 

Rece trying to be on the guys. :) 

Brody, Rece, Dakota, and Daddy - all trying to help Ethan open his presents. 

A new monkey to hug!

A sock monkey jack in the box!

A BIG truck from Daddy!

Here are all of his opened presents. He has been having fun playing with all of them today. 

Now, these pictures were taken on his actual birthday, today. 

Here is a video of Ethan showing how old he is. 

Since no one was able to see Ethan get into his birthday cake - here you go! We ended up just doing this tonight with the three of us. He really got into the cake! I don't think he minded being messy one bit. We had quite the mess to clean up afterwards. 

Here is a short video....

Here he looks like he wants to give me a hug! :)

He pretty much demolished it. Daddy thought it was the best first birthday cake eating he had ever seen (not that he ate that much). 

A few other updates from us. Ethan has had a great month! He is learning more and more everyday. He pretty much claps at everything now-a-days. His claps are actually pretty loud. When you tell him "Good Job" he will usually clap for himself. He is also learning to share. When he plays with his cars, we are always asking for one. So, now he constantly hands his cards over to us. Of course, then he will take them back right away. 

He LOVES to be outside. In fact, now when we come inside he cries. When he is outdoors he is starting to ask for his swing. He will point to it and gets so excited to swing. This is another hard thing to get him out of. Usually after he swings he likes to sit in the grass for a bit. I have never seen a baby like to sit in the grass so much. He also LOVES his cars (the ones that he can sit in). I think he would sit there all day if we let him. Just today he was in his little coupe and figured out how to go backwards. So, he was doing backwards circles in our garage for quite a while. He will put his feet up and let Daddy push him, too. He squeals with joy! 

He gets into moods where he likes to hug and kiss. It seems like he mostly does this with Momma and Grandma. Sometimes I am not sure if he is trying to kiss or bite!? Speaking of Grandma, he gets soooo excited when he sees her...more excited than anyone else. :) 

Well, that is it for now. Since Ethan is asleep I better clean things up around here. All in all, his birthday was good! We are hoping and praying he feels better soon. I think I will be going back to the doctors tomorrow!

Thanks, everyone for coming to our party and for the fun gifts!