The festivities

Macadam's birthday celebration began a few days early with a party thrown in his honor last weekend and then continued on to his actual birthday on the 3rd with a lunch date with Grandma and Grandpa Fox who couldn't be at the party and then a more intimate celebration with his mommy and daddy.

He really did a great job at the party and it was really nice to have friends and family from near and far all in one place (thank you to the Mastans for letting us use their place as the venue too). I have never seen him so messy though, and it wasn't even from cake. A few slices of watermelon and it was the strongest natural adhesive I've seen. He didn't really know what to do with the cake (after trying to grab the lit candle) and after so much fruit and food, he didn't make it very far, which is probably good.

At lunch, he loved spending time with Grandma and Grandpa and Grandma Fox made the cutest cake for him - I loved that he grabbed the 1 that was on the cake!

By the time he was celebrating with us, I think he had gotten the idea that cake is good, but frosting is not. He devoured the baby cupcake and threw the frosting on the floor. Rob and I toasted a pretty fantastic first year, a marvelous little boy and looked forward to another year we can't wait to see unfold.