One Year Old!!! Part One--The Party

We had Ashton's birthday party the night before his birthday. (It worked better for everyone, and he didn't know the difference.) We went to his Grandma/pa Hinton's house to celebrate. We ate hamburgers for dinner and had cake and presents, and it was a grand old time. Check out the spread of presents this kid got! Talk about spoiled...

This was the big Winnie the Pooh cake. It's pretty handy that Becky works at a bakery. She made a funfetti cake from a box at home, but then had her friends at the bakery decorate it cool! (Funfetti, yum!!!)

And this was his personal smash cake.

We started out with dinner, and then it was time for presents! The first one was...

...a colorful stacking toy thing! (Yeah, we all had one, but I don't know what they're called exactly.)

(He loves it a TON!!!)

Then he had to take a quick break to wrestle Bryant's head.

He also got...

...a book!

(He looks so disappointed.)

And...

...a new shirt! (For his one-year-old pictures tomorrow...)

And another wrestling break.

I think he started getting the hang of this present thing. He opened this one totally on his own--even opened the box and everything without any help!

A nice new outfit!

He also got...

...a Mickey and friends sippy cup!



And...

...some Winnie the Pooh bath toys!

We should've just given the kid a balloon... :)





And then it was time for cake!

He wasn't too sure about that cake at first! But giving him the spoon eventually did the trick and he dove right in.

For some reason he kept spooning it onto the table. Wierdo.





He did try a bite or two, but I guess he just doesn't like cake. (Kinda like me!) He was happier just playing in it.
















Sharing a bite with Daddy.





Time to get cleaned up!



And time for a drink!




It was all way too much fun--when we got home that night he just laid on the bed, exhaused!

It seems to me like the first birthday party was a success! I'm not sure how much he really understood about it, but he got to rip lots of paper, destroy beautiful presents, and play with a big mushy cake and a bunch of new toys, so I'd say he felt pretty special.

Happy Birthday, buddy!