Bubby's Birthday

This cute little guy is 1 year old! 

And he is our "little" guy. He is still in the 17lb range and is wearing 6-9m sized clothes (although I think he might be finally outgrowing the 6 month size!)

Here we are at the park playing with Dad! He went down to Mexico for a whole month back in March and it was a glorious reunion to have him home!

This is our spontaneous drive to IKEA the day after Dad got back. Great timing cause we got to see some beautiful wild flowers and bluebonnets on the way!

These girls love inspecting bugs. They found a ladybug and Bean Bean rushed in to get her ladybug outfit on.

Birthday time for Bubby! Skyping with Grama R.

Opening his own set of keys (cause he always wants Mom's).

And crawling in his new tunnel. 

And he got to eat cake for the first time ever. And it was my first homemade cake ever. 

He ate it up! He would pick a little off at a time and put it right in his mouth.  

He was not as big a fan of the ice-cream as I thought he'd be. Everyone else in our family would rather eat ice-cream over cake and originally I had just planned on doing ice-cream. But Dad suggested doing the cake too, and I'm sure glad I did since it was Bubby's favorite part!

March

I showed the kids how to make tunnels with the couch pillows. 

We bought Fruit Loops to make rainbow necklaces and rainbow art for St. Patrick's Day. Big Sis thoroughly enjoyed eating them more than the crafts.

I had a birthday and felt very loved. 

Thank you family and friends for singing to me, texting me, and making my day fabulous!

This year's birthday creation: Brownies with 1/2 bag of Ande's Mint Chips mixed in, and the other half sprinkled on top as soon as it came out of the oven. 

And these are from today! Every year I make a book that includes a picture of each member of our extended family so my kids will know who their aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents are. It always includes our family too, and so we needed some pictures for our book! Now I just have to decide which one to pick for each kid....they all turned out pretty cute.

And can you believe this little boy will be 11 months old this week? 

Bean Bean has the squinty eye problem that I have...