Birthday Party!

Today at 4pm we had Gavin's First Birthday party! Gavin took a pretty good afternoon nap, and was ready to party. It took him a while to warm up, and only wanted to be in someones arms...after about a half hour, he was ready to play. We had lots of family and friends here to celebrate, and we had so much fun. Gavin got to play with his friends Nicholas, Kekoa, Kaylin, Patrick, Aiden, and his second cousin Nathan. He LOVED to play with Nathan (or watch him!) and "learn" things from him. These 2 boys spent a while in the front yard and garage playing with all of Gavin's push toys. Everything Nathan wanted, Gavin would want, and it was so cute because Nathan did not care! He would just go find something else:)

Gavin got to eat his cake, and BOY did he like it. I made a special dairy free cake for G, and let him have the entire thing. He got one hand in it at first and licked the icing...then he realized that there was cake underneath, and kept digging and digging. He eventually had both hands in the cake and was devouring it! At one point, we had to take the cake away because he was eating SO much! He did not care because I left a big piece in the tray...and he kept eating and eating. I did not know this boy was capable of eating so much cake! So, we think he really liked it;)

After dinner and cake, Gavin got a second wind (sugar high??!!) and was just running around playing. From one end of the house to the other, he was wired. Finally at about 8:30 (Wayyy past his bedtime) he got tired, and went right to bed. We were all tired.

We feel so blessed to have such a great family and such amazing friends. We all had so much fun, and it turned out so nice. I wish we could do this more often! A special thank you to everyone who helped out, and a big thank you to Grandma Podie and Grandma Dayle...we could not have done it without you.

Still in shock that my lil man is ONE!