This is just a random pic in one of his Beatles shirts.
This was on Brendan's birthday. We took him and my friend Jamie's little girl Ellie to Moody Gardens to see the Aquarium Pyramid.
A pic of Brendan, Ellie, Jamie, Shannon, and me.
Brendan and Daddy
I thought this was adorable!
Our sweet kiddos practicing walking.
In case you were curious, Brendan is the same height as a Macaroni Penguin. Of course now I think he's closer to the Gentoo. He's reaching for doorknobs now (yikes!).
This was a little tank that had some coral and stuff. Brendan decided it was his own personal tap dancing floor. Silly boy!
Confined to the strollers again, poor kids!
There's a part in the aquarium where you get to walk through a tunnel and Brent took this amazing picture of the Stingray. So pretty!
"Look at the penguin Mommy"
The penguins were definitely Brendan's favorite. Which is funny, cause if you remember my post from last May when Brent and I went to aquarium when I was still pregnant, Brendan was kicking when we were watching the penguins :-)
That night Nana and Papaw took us to Pappasito's to celebrate. Brendan got dessert to go.
And since it was a Mexican restaurant, we had to take the birthday sombrero picture. It was a little big for him, hehe.
Cute pic in his Old Navy Hawaiian shirt. I love Hawaiian shirts.
The birthday party! Just some pics of the decor.
Cookie cake! Had to start him young. I wanted a Mickey Mouse but a certain cookie cake company can't do Mickey cause he's copyrighted. So we got a froggy instead.
We had enough people invited that we got a second cake just in case. Good thing we did! Though there was plenty for us to enjoy well into my birthday.
The Mickey decor.
Lighted candle!
Tired baby boy. He didn't have a nap all day before the party. So once he got the sugar of the cookie cake and ice cream AND sherbet punch, he started to have a sugar crash.
More sleepy boy.
Gotta love birthday hats!
So it's a tradition, apparently, to let 1 year olds have a cake to smash separate from the cake that everyone eats. So we just bought a litle ready-made cake at Walmart for that.
At first he just kind of looked at it wondering what he was supposed to do. Then, after a little help from Brent's cousin, he started playing with it more.
The aftermath! It took a while to clean him up. But he managed to keep his shirt clean! After clean-up we opened presents and he got sleepier and sleepier but never fussy. When everyone except for the adult-kids (those of us who are grown-ups but not yet 30 so we're not ready to admit it yet) stayed around putting together toys for Brendan. He actually stayed awake through all of that and then when I started feeding him dinner, he fell asleep. He had a great birthday and he loves all of his new toys, books, and clothes!
And if you thought that was all to the birthday week... Sunday was Parent Dedication Sunday because it was also Father's Day. Our church dedicates the new babies on Mother's Day and Father's Day each year. Brendan was born after Father's Day last year so we ended up having the oldest baby this day. He was so cute in his little suit! And just like every good toddler should, he made noises at the appropriate moments to make everyone laugh.
Another picture of the happy family.
So now I should probably change the name of the blog because once Brendan turned 1 the emails I get from BabyCenter.com changed to My Toddler. Hard to believe how fast this year has gone by. It has been a wonderfully fun year and I am so proud of our baby boy!
2 comments:
Oh, his waving on the video!!! YUMMY!!!!!!
Wow, he's really gotten so big (love the penguin comparisons). I can't believe Llama will be a year in 2 months too. And, hmm, we're going to have to make her a party because Sarah Rochel will expect it - poor first child Sarah Rochel got ZIPPO for her first birthday, not even cake! (I think at that point we were still not feeding her sugary things... ah, those idealistic days...)
I am vaguely remembering that you and Matthew and Shannon always had cookie cakes for your birthdays, because they were AMAZING and I never had them at anyone else's houses... Is that right?
And please, what is a baby dedication? (I totally started crying looking at those pictures - there is something so totally sweet about the spirituality of these tiny babies, you know?)
Hehe, yeah, we usually did have cookie cakes. They're the best! Baby dedication is just a time where you stand up in front of the church saying you promise to raise your child in a loving Christian home. Then the pastor asks if the congregation promises to support you in this and then he prays for us. It's really sweet.
We try to limit the sugar but sometimes grandparents give it to him!
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