James' First Birthday

My goal is to type up this entire post without weeping and sobbing over the fact that my little baby is now one year old and is actually growing up. Ugh, I barely made it through the first sentence without tears. I blame it on an emotional pregnancy. 

I will, however, avoid going into the blah, blah, blah, over how much I love him and how he has changed my life immensely. If you're a parent, you already know the indescribable feeling. If you're not, there are no words that can actually encompass the experience of having a child in your life for one year. So let's get straight into his little celebration. 

This year, James' birthday fell on Thanksgiving day. We were lucky, and crazy, enough to have my entire family visit for the holiday. Which means that James was lucky enough to spend time with all four of his uncles, three of his aunts, both sets of grandparents, and his cousins on his birthday. 

Dancing with his cousin Addy, both 2015 babies, but born 11 months apart. 

We decided to truly celebrate James' birthday the Saturday following Thanksgiving. I didn't like the idea of combining celebrations, we felt James deserved a day dedicated to entirely himself. 

On the day of his party, James strolled from room to room, welcoming guests, and socializing with everyone. The fears I had about him being shy and needy with a house full of people were completely unwarranted. 

I was most excited for him to eat his cake. We had been patiently waiting to introduce him to sugar until his first birthday. We are some serious sweet lovers in our house so we just assumed James would be one as well. 

He was completely unimpressed, disinterested and possibly even repulsed by the idea of eating cake. 

I should have realized that he wouldn't want to dive into it face first because the kid hates getting his hands messy {I guess he is my child in some respects}. So we do not have one of those amazing "cake smash" photos of our one year old with a face full of icing and a smile of pure, sugar high, joy. We have this... taken just second after Brit took it upon himself to smash James' face in the cake. 

He did, however, enjoy the fun sound it made when Brit slapped his hand on the cake. But that's pretty much the only thing he enjoyed about it. 

So that is the very brief recap of our little man's first birthday celebration. To be honest, we are still recovering from the exhaustion of hosting and celebrating. I kind of just want to sleep until Christmas... 

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday! 

Thanks for visiting!