Tidbits: Birthday Celebrations

Since Kaeden's birthday was on a Wednesday this year, his birthday celebrations ended up being spread out across many days.

For his birthday morning, I made him a special breakfast of french toast (with syrup!) - he was a fan :)

One of Mason & Ryan's favorite treats is to go out to frozen yogurt, and poor Kaeden would often tag along and be deprived. So, since we had no other plans for his actual birthday, we decided to take him to frozen yogurt and let him try it himself!

He didn't like it all that much - I think the cold kind of bothered him, but the rest of us enjoyed his little birthday celebration :)

After my parents arrived on Friday, we decided to do presents. Ryan was (not surprisingly) more excited than Kaeden, but Kaeden definitely enjoyed his new toys and even figured out the whole unwrapping thing a little bit as time went on.

Practicing his standing/walking

Learning to open :)

Clothes may not be that exciting to a one-year-old, but some day he will appreciate the AWESOME owl sweater that his Nana knit for him!

Playing with his new music toy - probably the biggest hit of the night.

This was another of his favorite new toys: a walker! As you can see, he was pretty enthusiastic about it.

Saturday was Kaeden's party. I was very thankful to have my parents there to help with preparations. Even Ryan helped to get our "owl s'mores" ready for the party and he had a lot of fun doing it too!

I have known since he was just a few months old that I would have an owl party for Kaeden. His favorite toy as an infant was an owl and when he started to coo, his most common sound was "whoo whoo". I was excited to find some really cute party supplies and decided to model the cake after them. I was really pleased at how it turned out.