Happy 1st Birthday Nate!

Happy 1st Birthday to my little man! I can't believe it has been a year already, time certainly does fly! The first birthday party I had for Nate was on July 17th with his little buddies that are in his playgroup. The morning before that day Parker, Nate and I were playing outside and Parker and I decided to use his sidewalk chalk and write Happy 1st Birthday Nate! Nate enjoyed watching us draw and actually grabbed some of the chalk and tried to color some too. I captured a picture of Nate crawling around after we were done and I managed to get all the words in the picture.


The next picture is of Nate's cupcake cake. He has been interested in Elmo lately, so I thought I would get him a Elmo cake. He enjoyed digging into the cupcake as you can see from all the red and yellow frosting all over his face! He actually ate the entire cupcake, which I'm not too surprised about because he eats everything we put in front of him. He enjoyed opening all his presents and got some cool new bathroom toys. Shortly after that party he crashed and took a nap for 3 hours!


The next picture is of Nate at Toys R Us. He got a special card from Geoffrey the Giraffe saying to come and celebrate your 1st birthday, so we all went. Nate got his own crown to wear in the store and a balloon. He loved playing with the balloon, but he didn't like wearing his crown and kept taking it off.



The last picture if of Nate eating another cupcake at the small party we had for him on July 20th. We invited Leland's brothers over and had a small cookout and birthday party. Nate, as you can see, is enjoying his 2nd cupcake. We all sang happy birthday to him and Nate didn't really know how to react. He just sat there looking at each of us like, "ok you are singing to me, I like this!" We placed a number 1 in his cupcake and lit it, and we were surprised that he didn't attempt to touch the flame. After we sang to him Parker helped him blow out the candle. After we ate cupcakes Nathan crashed for 2 1/2 hours and then when he woke up we watched him open up his gifts. We thought he would have stayed up longer with taking that long nap, but he went to bed at his normal bed time which is 8pm and slept until 7am the next morning.