although today is also our 10th wedding anniversary, the day was spent celebrating maddux' first year. we didn't really do anything too special during the day. madelyn and mason went to school and maddux and i went to the grocery store and bed, bath & beyond before maddux had a melt down.
maddux is the first child that didn't get a homemade first birthday cake. but according to madelyn, the ice cream cake we had instead was "the best cake ever". we had bought a free dairy queen cake in a silent auction and thought that we would cash it in. thankfully, the lady at dairy queen didn't let me settle for something too basic and maddux ended up with a pretty cute cake.
papa and nana sent a few small gifts for madelyn and mason so that they wouldn't feel left out (not that they did since they opened all of maddux' presents). they loved that they got their own special presents.
maddux was having a pretty miserable day. we were at bed, bath & beyond looking at humidifiers. he is sleeping fine but the coughing from he and mason was getting worse. maddux could not handle me looking up reviews on my phone and we left empty handed. i didn't take very many pictures because he was not in the mood - at all. i tried to get a picture of him with matt and i but he wouldn't let us hold him or get near him. and then i realized that i didn't take a picture of matt and i for our anniversary either! oh well.
this was one of the few happy moments in maddux' day. he managed to open the dishwasher and get inside. he was quite pleased with himself.
and then he went back to being needy...
madelyn and mason were excited about maddux' birthday and decided that they could help by watching for the macaroni and cheese to be "brown and bubbly". i kept having to remind madelyn that the bread crumbs were already brown to start with and that it was the cheese that needs to get brown.
after naps we went to cvs to take another stab at picking up a humidifier and to get maddux a birthday balloon. he could at least have a balloon!
he really, really liked the balloon (and the way mason hit it which he thought was hysterical). and it seemed like he was even trying to say "balloon" by pointing and saying "ba".
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| i love his expression - like what is this? |
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| and then he got more excited and put his finger right in |
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| and a finger was pretty much his eating technique |
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| and when he was done... |
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| ...he was done. |
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| madelyn was excited to show maddux the special card she made him |
maddux started with interest in the first gift, but he was quickly moved to the background as his brother and sister couldn't stand the anticipation.
it was a nice first birthday. of course, it would have been a lot nicer if he had been healthy. matt and i were discussing how fast this year has gone by - in retrospect only. and how fast the past ten have past. we are blessed. love.
3 comments:
Happy bday Maddux! And happy anniversary Matt and Michelle. Love the card Madelyn made and her giant 'E'. She looks SO much like you (in her eyes) in that picture. I like how you put the table and chairs with the book nook. Did you get a new dining room table? As you can tell, I'm enjoying reading your posts and checking out the house stuff in the background of your pics :) I hope you guys are feeling better now. Oh, I meant to ask, how has the room situation been going (Madelyn in her own, the boys together)?
Loved all the pictures and videos. maddux seems to really be enjoying himself and he's so cute with the guitar. Happy Birthday Maddux!!
thanks for the happy wishes! madelyn is big into her giant "E" and her long tailed "y" right now.
that table and chairs will end up in the boys' room once we are done with the glider chair. but for now, it works in the living room to complete our 'nook'. i actually got the idea for the space from you and you reading corner for lorelai.
that is the same dining table that matt made before we left wisconsin. we are SO happy to have it back!
i need to do a post on sleeping. it is actually going much better than i had even hoped, but our early risers have been starting their days by 5:30am and we are struggling getting the boys back down because they just feed off each other.
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