The Alphabet Kids: Ethan Turns O-N-E!

Happy 1st Birthday Ethan Noel!

It's official. I finally have to admit, that once you have kids, time truely does fly by. People have told me that you blink and before you know it your kids are grown. Well, Ethan isn't exactly grown, not yet anyway, but the past year has gone by in no time.

Ethan has grown so much in the past year! He's in the process of cutting two more teeth (which will take him up to 6), in the last month he's started crawling and now all we hear is "mama" and "dada". He's our "jumbo baby" weighing in at a little more than 20 lbs and measuring 30 inches tall. He's a super happy little man who loves to eat goldfish, play cars with his big brother Dominic and dance with big sister Christina.

On Saturday, August 1st we celebrated Ethan's first birthday with family and a few close friends. Mom & Dad came up (I guess from Indiana it's technically over) to help get things ready because Bryan had to work during the day. Gamma Chris, Christina & myself spent the morning making the coolest cupcakes. We decided to do a sports theme and made baseball, football and basketball cupcakes. I was really excited how they turned out considering it was a relatively easy throw together.

I made Ethan a baseball cake for him to eat but these are the cupcakes. I was quite proud of our work.

Here is Christina, Olivia, Madelyn & Dominic enjoying their cupcakes at the party. The girls all sat down on one side of the picnic table and Dominic (the ladies man) just had to sit down with them! Dominic just ate the icing off of his and had an orange mustache the rest of the night. I think this was their favorite part of the party.

Birthday boy Ethan really wasn't too sure about the whole cake thing, however once he got into the cake (I cut it so he could pick it up), he really got into it. I think he sat there for like a half an hour and just went to town. I ended up throwing him in the tub just to get the chocolate out of all of his little folds! Even after the bath, I found cake inside his ears!

All in all, it was a wonderful night - good weather, good food and good company. Can't get much better than that! Which is a good thing, because we'll be doing it again in about 12 months (which will be here before we know it)!