First Birthday!

Elliot’s first birthday was the bestest day ever! We had great food (thanks Jody!), friends and family, and great weather. Elliot was cooperative and took a nice long nap right before it was time to leave, and while he did that we were busily purchasing helium balloons and texting friends to come to the party. We haven’t had internet since we moved into the new place so while the original invite was hastily put up on facebook we had no way of following up and checking who was actually coming. We just texted a whole bunch of people to come to McCarren park in an hour! Oh, we are the worst!

Anyway, we made it, friends made it, and while unfortunately baby Joseph ended up getting sick the day before, baby Hunter came with mom and dad and the boys had a great time jamming.

Elliot had fun mingling, poking his cake and then shoving it into his mouth and then opening presents. He also continued the tradition of passing on the beloved shopping cart to the next soon-to-be walker.

We were relived that the cake actually came out quite good. We made it the night before - gluten-free chocolate with vanilla frosting - and in addition to it initially appearing a little dried out and misshapen we seemed to make it even worse when we attempted to apply the frosting and poopy chocolate happy birthday writing. We had us some good convulsive laughter as we used a ziplock bag with a hole in it for the frosting writing and realized that we should probably start getting better at these things. All in all it was the best birthday ever!