Dr. Seuss Party and some one year stats

For Aiden's party I decided to go with a Dr. Seuss theme.  Honestly, I'd had that theme picked out since Patrick turned one but his parties have always turned to cars...I have no idea why. ;)  Aiden isn't really obsessed with one particular thing/kind of thing, so I did whatever I thought would be cute. :)

           Kami tried to photobomb the picture... :)

 Really, my camera abilities are useless and horrible so they don't really do it justice but I thought it turned out well.

See in the above picture how there is a gold fish in a cute little bowl?  Here were my thoughts on the situation: "That will be cute, I can have a real goldfish as the centerpiece and draw some Dr. Seuss like fish on a piece of paper and tape those to the side to make it look Dr. Seuss-y and then the next day the goldfish will die, like all my goldfish have in the past."
How it really went down was this: I bought my $.28 goldfish, we took him home and the next day Jon noticed he was gulping at the top surface of the water.  Me in my not caring manner told him it was normal.  Jon researches and figures out that all my goldfish die because I've basically suffocated them to death and goldfish are meant to live in tanks with filters.  Instead of just letting our $.28 goldfish die, we drive to Idaho Falls and buy a lot more expensive tank than the dang fish is worth, decide he needs friends, which are all more expensive than original $.28 fish, pick out tropical ones by accident, need special heater, need different food for tropical fish vs. goldfish, Jon decides our fish needs little toys to swim around in......are you seeing how this is playing out?  We now have a tank with cool fish in it that all ended up costing more than my original $.28 because I had to have the stinkin' idea that a goldfish would be cool at Aiden's party.  My tender hearted husband cares for animals a lot more than I ever gave him credit for and me, the "animal lover" was just going to let the goldfish suffocate to death.

And, back to the party.  Mainly the food was the biggest portion of the party so after we ate our green eggs and ham, chocolate covered strawberries, cake pops, etc. we opened gifts and then watched Aiden not eat his cake.  Apparently he's not a huge sugar lover, which is just fine by me.  I was just slightly looking forward to watching him dig in but I shouldn't be surprised that his personality is a little more reserved, like mine is, and he just didn't want to get messy while everyone was watching.  Aiden pretty much seemed a little overwhelmed the whole time by all of the attention he was getting and zoned out by the time the gifts were over.

Opening his presents.  Patrick was so good at getting the presents for him and "helping'" him open them.

We tore open the cake for him and this was his look.  I have a video and he's pretty much just crying over the fact that we put frosting on his hands and mouth.  We tried putting a little in his mouth to have him try it but he clamped down as hard as he could so we couldn't get anything inside.

Once we stopped trying to force it, he was a happy camper.  His cheezer face...kills me.  I love it.

Patrick was soo excited by the whole thing that he couldn't fall asleep until 2 in the morning.  I really loved that after being exhausted from the day. :)

I thought the party was a success.  We always appreciate when family comes to support us and show their love for these little kids that mean so much to us.

Sorry, this post is turning out long but while I'm on here, I wanted to add Aiden's stats and some things about him.

Weight-21.12 pds.(24%)
Height-29.75 in.(48.51%)

He's still our little man.  I know I say this a lot but he  seemed like a little baby for a lot longer than Patrick did and I'm grateful for that.  It might not make sense to everyone why I would say that but it really has been a blessing for us.

At one year Aiden:
-is walking everywhere.  goodbye crawling days.
-has 4 teeth
-still loves eating most everything but if he's not in the mood, you know it.  there is no opening that little jaw to get any food in.
-says mama and dada but has recently started trying to imitate more sounds, especially when we say "hi!"
-jabbers with a lot more meaning.  He's constantly trying to tell me what he wants or tell me a story
-points to everything he wants as well
-understands little commands like, "Aiden, come to me"
-he tries singing along with me
-claps his hands
-waves hi or bye
-loves climbing things
-loves going to the park and exploring.  he really loves the slide
-loves riding things like bikes, mater truck, etc.

Hence why we got this little mickey scooter thing.   Probably ranks in the top 10 purchases by mom and dad

-loves being outside

-loves wrestling

-still a mama's boy but there is no doubt that he loves and adores all of his family

-sleeps 10-12 hours at night plus 1 or 2 naps depending on when I lay him down.  I've been transitioning to one but he'll sleep whenever I lay him down.  Seriously, I can't think of an easier baby and I know I've been spoiled which scares me for if/when we have another baby. 

Today at the doctor's office, the nurses were all commenting on how he was the sweetest and cutest baby ever.  I couldn't agree more. I love my little boys. :)