Happy 1st Birthday Jude!!

Jude turned 1 on Saturday, August 14th. He had a wonderful 1st birthday, despite not feeling the best. He had had a cold for a few days and woke up on Saturday with a fever to go along with it. He was in a great mood so we decided to go ahead and have his party. We let all our friends and family know that he had a cold and told them we understood if they didn't want to come.

My Birthday Boy in the morning

We decided to have our own special family time and gave Jude his presents from us before the party. He and Eli both enjoyed playing with his new toys.

Opening presents from Daddy and Mommy

He did a good job ripping the paper

Driving a Car on his new mat

Both boys playing with the new Fire Station

Driving his new Fire Truck

While both boys napped we were able to get set up for the party. Guests started arriving around 3:00 and both boys were still sleeping. I ended up having to wake them both up around 3:15 to get the party started and thankfully they both woke up in good moods. Eli was so excited to have his cousins come play. I was worried about how Eli would do while Jude was opening presents because he had already told us several times that he wanted presents too. Luckily he was so busy playing with his cousins he didn't even care about the presents. Jude did pretty good with opening presents. You can't expect much from a 1 year old.

Opening presents

After presents it was time for cake. Jude is such an eater, I knew he wouldn't have a problem eating cake. He did seem a little surprised when I sat the whole cake in front of him. I had to help him get the first bite, but then he got the hang of it and did a pretty good job. After a few minutes he started to get fussy, for him to leave food on his tray must mean he wasn't feeling well.

The Cake

Digging in

Big Brother helped celebrate

Our Family

Jude (and Eli) have both really enjoyed the new toys. Jude love to play with cars and he got plenty of new vehicles to play with. We have to keep reminding Eli that these are Jude's new toys so he has to share them. He is doing pretty good, but there have been a few timeouts over it. Eli better watch out, it won't be long before Jude is shoving back. :-)

Jude loves his new tool bench from his Aunts and Uncles!

Eli does too!

Playing together

New truck from Grandma

Jude LOVES his race track

I can't believe how fast this year has flown by. So much has happened this past year and I wouldn't change any of it. I am so glad to be back in Indiana, but I will always have very fond memories of Iowa because it was Jude's first year. I love this little boy so much.

My Sweet Birthday Boy