The 1st Birthday Party

We had a low key party with family only to celebrate Ethan's birthday on Saturday, March 29th. My parents flew in from Palm Springs for the weekend, so for the party it was the 3 of us, my parents, Brenden & Michele and the kids, and Jonathan's Dad. Poor Pat, was so sick and very sad to miss the party!

The theme was Elmo's Mexican Fiesta...with Margarita's, carne and pollo asada and all the fixings..and of course cake (and key lime pie).

Ethan opened his presents, with some help from Amelia and Ryan and then they tested everything out. Sippy cups, books, push lawn mowers, a milk bowling game, alphabet letter magnets, a Vet helicopter team...this kid was on cloud 9. On the top of his list, was the push buggy and for the next 24 hours he was in there about 80% of the time he was awake! It was so funny, his hand immediately went to the steering wheel at 10 & 2, and he of course covers the horn just in case (like his Dad).

Ethan was presented with his own birthday cake, unfortunately the little bugger was pretty worn out by this time but did manage to enjoy the attention and a few handfuls of cake.

After Ethan went to bed, we brought out the house race game. I am happy to report that I was the big winner (about $10), and you have never heard so much complaining (from everyone) to owe $.10-$.40 for a bad dice toss. It was a very fun party - I hope Ethan enjoyed it as much as we did!