Elijah's First Birthday

Another first, there are so many in my growing boy's world.


This was his cake.

And, it was the best child's cake ever. Thank you so much Leah! It was WONDERful and yummy. Sadly, this cake may have done her in and word on the street is she no longer does kids' cakes. Hopefully the trauma caused by creating the WonderPets cake will pass and she'll reconsider- we are going to need a year 2 cake, you know.

We so savvy-ily conned people into helping us move in by also throwing Eli's birthday on the same day. muhahah. Our invitations read: Come help us celebrate our boy's first. Everyone must carry in 1 thing from the P.O.D. Good thing the kid is so cute. It worked like a charm. Seriously though, it was a lot of fun to have good friends around us on a day where we were celebrating so much.

this pic included friends in our old and new small groups

simply precious

island full of clutter - kitchen full of friends

This was the first time Eli had really had sweets. Well, that I know of anyway.

Gee, mom. I don't know? Can I?

Well, maybe just a taste. If you insist. It is my birthday.


Don't let the face fool you.....

He had no problem digging in.

I should have known better than to give him an adult sized piece. I seriously wasn't thinking about it with everything that was going on. I looked over to check on how he was doing and he had put a serious hurting on that cake... He just kept eating and eating and before long looked really sick, but was still shoving cake in his mouth. He did circles around the island for the rest of the night laughing his head off. Before I put him down for the night he left a lovely puddle of blue icing throw up and spinach from the pizza in his new room.

Thank you God for my sweet little family

I must confess that Elijah's look of pure joy is for his daddy. I know this for sure, because it's how he ALWAYS looks at Rob. If you didn't know Rob hung the moon and stars. Our level of daddy idol is at an all time high - more on that later.

Happy Birthday Boy!