It's my party...

For the big birthday party we had a "YAY Bradley's 1!! (and oh yeah, Kevin is 29) Party!" :) Everything was YAY Bradley, oh yeah - and Kevin. We had BIG "1"s hanging from the ceiling everywhere, along with smaller "29"s, and we had a birthday cake with Bradley's wonderful picture on it and Kevin was small and dark in the background. It was very funny :) It was a great party, I was worried because Mr Bradley gets a little anxious around big groups of people, especially when he's the center of attention and he doesn't know everyone - but he did great - all the way until the cake :)

First - let me tell you - months ago when we were planning this party, Kevin and I were throwing out ideas about how they should wear matching shirts and hats, and open presents together and do everything together, and I promise he said, "Yeah, and when Bradley goes to get ready for the cake and he strips down to his diaper - I should strip down too!" Well - I thought that was a great idea and added it to my agenda. So months later I am ordering the cakes and I remember this plan and get Kevin a little cake of his own and reminded him of the plan. "NO WAY! No way am I doing that Heidi - how embarrassing!" But I kept reminding him that it was actually his idea :) I told Tammy and Mindy the plan and told them to convince him and even at the party he was refusing but must have given into wife-pressure at the last minute, because he did it and it was adorable! And as much as he fought it - he had so much fun with it :) I sure love my boys!!! :)

Anyways - Mr Bradley does not like getting his hands dirty too much, so he wasn't the biggest fan of the cake - and then you add a dozen people staring at him, laughing, and taking pictures - it was all a little too much for the guy :)

I hope he enjoyed his first birthday - I think the party turned out great, it was so nice of everyone to come and celebrate with us.

Then later on in the night, after his nap, we took some more pictures with his birthday hat, some funny pictures, and with his balloons - he absolutely loves the Goodnight Moon book, and his favorite part of it is the red balloon - anytime you turn to a page with it on there, he points and says "oooo", it's so cute - so even though everything about the party was dark and light blue - we had to throw one red balloon in there :)

Is this little toddler really my baby boy???! I'm so in denial that he's so big already! It seems like yesterday that I was giving birth and yet I feel like I don't remember a time that he wasn't with me...

Birthday Boys

On December 19th Kevin turned 29 and Bradley turned 1! I made them shirts that said "Birthday Man" and "Birthday Boy" and we spent a nice day together. We went to Old Chicago for lunch (Kevin's choice, not Bradley's :) ) And Mr Bradley had his first taste of ice cream - didn't care for it too much as you can tell! But he sure loved his dinner and was just SO excited that it was his birthday! He must have known! :) Then he was pretty wiped out after a long birthday-day :)