On Friday, Theo's Birthday, we just hung out around home and played. Trevor and I sang to Theo and took pictures at the moment (11:10 am) Theo turned one so that was fun! Travis had to drive 3 hours away to look at a tractor so he wasn't home until later in the afternoon. That evening we decorated the Birthday cake and got ready for the big party the next day.
Travis and I decided to have a little friendly competition with Theo's birthday cake bears. We each decorated one and then had our families vote on their favorite by giving them 2 M&Ms to place their votes. It was an honest tie 19-19. I would have to say that I could have won though because Luke ate one of the M&Ms in Travis's bowl, but I put it back in the votes. Also, Travis was trying to influence the voters at the end. Travis is really much more artistic than me though! It was fun!
We had Theo's party on Saturday at lunch at Iola Pizza Hut since our house is way too small for both of our families at once. Hopefully next year we will be able to have his party in our new house.
The party started off with a bang, well actually a crash. The girl at Pizza Hut had stacked all the plates and the 2 liters of pop on the same end of the table. When Travis went to move a chair (that was obviously supporting the table) the table tipped over and all the plates started falling one by one and crashing into one another. Amazingly only about 5 plates broke out of about 25. Luckily no kids were over by it and no one got hurt. It was pretty exciting though!
Theo got to eat some of his baby food and crust from the pizza. He was taken in by all of the excitement and people though and didn't eat too much. When it was time for Theo to eat his cake we just sat him right on the table with it. I think he was puzzled as to why we were wanting him to just dig right in and eat with his hands and especially sweet stuff. He was a little shy so we had to help him out. He did seem to enjoy the chocolate frosting!
Then it was time for gifts. Since we have lots of young little boy nephews and big brother Trevor, Theo had a lot of help with his gifts. He seemed to like looking into the packages and was quite impressed by the paper and bags. Of course, he enjoyed his presents too.
Then it was time for Trevor to steal some of the attention from little brother. Trevor dressed up as "Monkey Man." He came up with the outfit all on his own on Friday. Saturday morning he dressed himself in this outfit, and he was ready to go to Theo's party. We had to bargain with him that he could dress up during the party. You can see a picture of his getup in the Smilebox below.
I am amazed that Theo made it until the end of the party before he got worn out and tired. Way to go Theo!
Then Theo got to take a little nap and it was off to his first ever basketball game. Crest was playing in the Regional Championships and won! Theo made it through 3 quarters and then we had to go walk around. Too much excitement for one day!
It was a wonderful first birthday for our lil' guy. He's such a blessing!
