Celebrating JD's 1st Birthday

JD still has at least a week and a half before his actual birthday, but when we were sending out invitations, we didn't know whether or not Justin would be starting his internship on the 26th of this month, or if he would start in February. After the invitations were sent, we found out he would be starting his internship in February, so we celebrated a little early.

We had a lot of fun, and JD had fun celebrating with our friends and his friends. It turned out pretty well, and if I had the time and resources, I would've decorated our place better, but I was pretty happy with the results. It was suppose to be baseball themed, so I did everything kind of sporty. I made JD a "happy birthday" banner, and had extra fabric from it, so I just dressed up the rest of the living room with banners going across the room. I also put JD's pictures over a year's span above the "concessions" table.

His cake smash did not turn out the way any of us expected it to be. After we blew out his candle, we set the cake on his high chair, and we let him at it. Except, he just sat there and poked at it a little. Every once in a while he'd lick off the icing off from his fingers, but he just wasn't that into it. It was kind of disappointing. I put cheerios next to the cake and on top of it (He usually goes crazy with cheerios on his tray).

When that didn't work, we put a spoon into the cake, hoping that would help a little bit. 

 

Didn't change the situation much at all.So his little buddy tried to help him...

Still nothing! It looked as if his little friends were doing what JD should've done with their cupcakes...

So, we just gave up and got him out and cleaned the little bits of cake and frosting on him. We eventually moved on to presents, and he seemed to enjoy that a lot more. He got...

 A truck with legos

 Some blocks (no pictures of him with it)

 A huge tennis ball

 A glowing soccer ball and sweet bath toy

 A truck that holds all his car toys for the car track he got for Christmas

 and a ride/push along McQueen Racer (thingy)

He also got a sweet suit and cute clothes from his aunts and uncles. He was a happy kid! We definitely missed family, and are sad that we didn't get to celebrate his 1st birthday with them. We miss all of you guys! We were definitely thinking of you!