The Birthday Festivities

On February 22nd, Brayden, turned 1. I can't believe that my baby isn't a baby anymore. Friday night we had a party for him with Greg's family and friends. It was a little hectic (we had eight kids under the age of four), but so much fun.

The cake didn't go so well, but we didn't have high expectations. Brayden does not like textures. At this point, he is eating no table foods and putting nothing in his mouth (food, toys or otherwise...not even a cheerio). I have even been trying to blend his food and he still won't eat it...frustrating! Anyway, so he didn't like the cake. I tried to get him to at least try the frosting, nope. He mostly looked at it in disgust. Don't let the picture confuse you, he didn't eat anything, the mess is just from me trying to get him eat the frosting. He did look pretty cute in his new little outfit Aunt Denise sent. She made him a shirt that said "one" on it. Pictures are getting more difficult now that he is walking. Every picture that I have from the party (when he is not confined to a chair) is him walking to get the camera. BIG NEWS...Brayden is walking and it is so cute. We call it the frankenstein walk because he keeps his arms out and sways back and forth. Hilarious!

On Saturday we had my family over for a party. My family is pretty big with all of my step-brothers and their families, so we usually have to split up parties. There are twenty of us if we all show up:) Also a wonderful night of non-cake-eating...and yes, I put him through the torture again. But at least someone enjoyed my cake (cough, cough - messy boy to the right). It was such a fun party and we were once again blessed with new clothes...he is going to be once spiffy dresser! All of my nephews and nieces could come, so we took a picture of everyone. In the back is Luke. Front left: Brayden, JoEllen, Hope, Jarrett, Jacob and Jonathan.