The Party

The Family converged on our house on a Sunday afternoon to celebrate the First Annual Birthday Extravaganza for The Dude. He was in particularly rare form that day - before the guests arrived he took his very first steps towards us in the living room. "Uh oh.", we said. And despite all the commotion of the kids, and the guests, and the presents, and the singing... he took even more independent steps, and this time we had witnesses! But more on that later....

Let's get to the good stuff! The Dude was definitely showered with awesome gifts for his birthday. From a super cool Radio Flyer tricycle to the best top on earth, he made out like a bandit.





So then came The Big Moment. We set him in his chair, put the cupcake in front of him with the HUGE candle, and everyone started to sing. He stared at us all, and stared at the candle... he wasn't too sure what it was...



...and being the curious monkey he is, he reached out to investigate... OUCH! We didn't blow it out in time! The poor little guy stuck his finger right in the flame!! Bad Mama and Papa! We burned our poor child on his first birthday... good grief.

Of course, he forgot about the whole traumatic experience in about 2 seconds and went on playing as usual - but he was done with the cake thing and we weren't able to get the whole photo montage of the messy cake experience. It just goes to show you that you can't "will" things to happen... you just have to show up.

Thanks to all that attended - it was a great party. And for those of you that couldn't make it, you were there in spirit and hopefully this says it all....