On February 28th Gavin turned 1! On Saturday March 1, (mommy's 31st birthday) we celebrated! Curious George was the theme so I had it all decorated with vines and leaves and Curious George monkeys! Our friend Marcie made him a shirt that he wore which had the number 1 and his name with a Curious George on it. His sitter Doreen gave him shoes that squeak when he walks and to top off the outfit he wore my brothers jeans from when he was a baby in the 70's. They were hip man! Anyway, we had a great time! Friends and family came and everyone got into the Curious George spirit. He got some great monkey plates and a bowl and cup and silverware to eat with now that he's a big boy. He also got lots of great books and a toy car from the movie Cars AND a mini guitar so he can play with daddy! He was really amazed by all the gifts!
He had, of course, his own little cake to smash and was much more interested in squishing the frosting between his fingers. He immediately wiped it all on his face which made for some great pictures! He loved having all the people around! We had practiced singing, "Happy birthday" before hand and blowing out the candle. He wanted us to sing again when it was time to blow out. He looked around and started singing, "Haaaaay" so we sang a little more and then he attempted to blow out the candles with more of a spitting effect and I finally helped him get it out.
Later that evening we celebrated my birthday with BJ's pizza and ice cream cake (that's right two cakes in one day-we don't mess around!). There was only one present I asked Benjy for and he came through! I got a silver charm for a necklace with an imprint of Gavin's little fingerprint on it! It is soooo precious to me and it made me cry. It was the most perfect gift for my birthday this year to celebrate that at this time last year he came into my life! I thought it would be tough for Benjy to pull off behind my back b/c he had to find out who makes them and then get Gavin there to do it. I thought he hadn't been able to do it so he really did surprise me with that gift!
Gavin was in the best mood all day with only about 45 min nap the entire day! He even had trouble sleeping that night-I think he was just so excited. So... just to commemmorate this past year with him, we got up from 2-4 am and watched one of his new Elmo videos, lit a candle and sang Happy Birthday again and ate some leftover Ice Cream cake together. It was pretty memorable although I was tired the next day! We finally got back to sleep about 4:30 and he was up by 6:30! Thank goodness Grandpa was up!
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