Garrin's First Birthday!

Since Garrin was to turn 1 on the eve of the Olympics we got the great idea of doing his birthday in that theme. Besides, the 1st birthday is really for the parents. We get to celebrate that they are now more mobile and able to destroy things at a much faster rate so we need all of our family and friends to buy the kid more stuff. This is the onsie that I made for him that has the #1 on the front and then "Birthday Boy" on the back. On his tush are his initials GTW.





In that vein we were going to try and do a whole "Baby Olympics" thing but it got too be too much so we simplified with a pool party, a light dinner and some cake and ice cream. Here are the picture highlights of my baby's 1st birthday.

This was Garrin's birthday cake. It was the olympic rings, if you can't tell. See, the first birthday is all about how messy the kid can get so I figure chocolate cake with every bold color you can think of should get the job done. This is the one time a year I will bust my butt in the kitchen to really make a cake (well, one of the two times since I have two boys).

Instead of doing a cute "#1 candle" I found this sparkler that was in the shape of a one. I figured it would work since we could pretend it was a torch or something and we didn't have to wait for him to blow it out...

This is about 3 minutes after we put the cake in front of him. He took a little while to warm up and thought the point of the cake was to poke at the holes but once we got him to understand that you get to EAT THE THING he had some fun.

Here is the tub after the initial wipedown. This kid knew it was his birthday since he had a day in the pool and 2 baths!!!

Here are the two big presents he got. The basketball toy was from Trevin and the play table was from mom and dad. He plays with both of them daily!

Happy Birthday Booboo!