Busy Birthday Boy

Ayson has had just about the best first birthday a little boy could ask for!  We had a great time at his birthday party on Saturday.  Thank you so much to all who came to help us celebrate.  You helped make his birthday so special for us...he is one loved little man!

The cake eating went just as I expected it would.  He wasn't interested AT ALL.  He didn't like the taste of it and really didn't want to get his hands dirty either.  He's a neat kiddo, what can I say :)  I tried to help him out a little bit by smashing his hand in the cake, but all he did was stare at his hand and try to shake the cake off of it.  Oh, well...it's ok buddy, mama doesn't like cake either.  Next year we'll make your cake out of mashed potatoes :) 

Happy First Birthday

Cake time! 

Not too crazy about the cake

The cleanest first birthday kid ever

Happy parents, mad kiddo

Now we can chart Ays's growth on his very own chart!

Addi helping open presents :)

Loves his squish ball

Reading his cards

Dada and the birthday boy

Silly boy

• Along with all of his family, Ayson got to see his BFF Asher, who came all the way up from Dallas to help him celebrate.  Poor Asher just wanted to play with his water bottle and Ayson was trying to climb on him :)

• Two little blondies playing with bubbles!!

• To celebrate Ayson's birthday today, we stayed busy, busy, busy!  We wanted it to be extra special.  We started out with pancakes for breakfast...in the shape of a #1 of course!  

• Unlike last time we tried pancakes, he actually ate some of it...and liked it :)

• After breakfast, it was lunch and some birthday shopping with Auntie Angela.  Then we had a playdate with Braeden.  They both look like such big kids now!

• Taking a wagon ride 

After our playdate, we did something we have been looking forward to doing on his first birthday for a long time.  We took Ayson back to the NICU to visit some of the amazing nurses that took care of him.  It was so great to see them again, and they loved seeing him too.  They were all impressed with how well he his doing.  We didn't get any pictures, as they were all very busy taking care of all the little babers who need their attention, but it was so important to us to go back and say THANK YOU.  Their kindness and care for Ayson will never be forgotten. 

Then...yes, I'm not done yet...we went to Hideaway for a yummy birthday dinner.  No, he cannot appreciate the yummyness of their wonderful pizza yet, but he will someday!  He was such a happy birthday kiddo all day.

And finally before he went night night, we measured him on his new growth chart.  From 14.5 inches to 28 inches on his first birthday...he has nearly doubled his length and quintupled his birth weight...WOOHOO!  Now that's something to celebrate :)  

Happy Happy Birthday Sweet Boy!