Cade's first birthday

"We did it, we did it, oh yeah yeah yeah!!!" Yes, that is a song from Finding Nemo. I won't talk about how many times we've watched this over the last few weeks but this post is not about how much my boys (yes, both of them) are really into this movie! But rather about our little boy turning one! And yes, we did it! We made it, we survived the first year of Cade's life as well as well as the first year of parenting two rambunctious boys!

We couldn't decide what we wanted to do for Cade's first birthday celebration. As usual the guest list just got bigger and bigger the more we thought about it. We looked at venue options and doing something similar to what we had for Darian but in the end we decided that it would be better if we just had a few close friends at home. It turned out to be a great day and our little boy was celebrated in true style. 

Adam entertaining the kids

A house full of babies

Our birthday boy

Cutting the cake

A full house indeed

Celebrating with our nearest & dearest

A full house

He likes to drum

Joash, Lee, Lenny & Premika

Kajal, Luka & Liley

Luka, Liley & Lily

Madison & Darian

Mason & Cade

Getting ready for cake

Wanted to walk down the stairs so mum had to help

Our little boy is 1

The cake

Thea & Sean

On his actual birthday, he celebrated at daycare with his friends. Unfortunately the day care rules have changed somewhat since Darian turned one so I was unable to bake a cake for my little boy, like I did his brother. But the teachers were very obliging and baked a cake for him so he could celebrate with his friends. Of course there was no way I couldn't be there when Happy Birthday was sung to him for the first time, so I took time off work to be there to witness it. And of course Darian joined in and ate as much chocolate cake as he could muster.

Mum I'm watching tv

Ok, one smile then go away

If I can act like I'm looking at you while I look at the tv, ok

now you're in the way mum

celebrations at daycare

Cake... mmmmm

mouth stuffed with cake

big brother had to get in on the cake action

Cake for everyone

My boys

Little Evelyn and Cade - litle siblings of Elise & Darian who sat next to each other at Darian's first birthday celebrations

We are so grateful for our little boy. He is such a joy, always smiling, always laughing and always loving on his brother and looking for mama and dada. I am blessed beyond measure and when I see all the friends we have that take us as family, that came to celebrate with us, each person that took the time out to wish our boy or to make his day special, I realised just how much God has blessed us.

Thank you to everyone who made celebrating his day so special.