Considering most of my readers are mothers, I know you will understand my tardiness. I know you also have hundreds of pictures hanging out in virtual space that you have taken and done nothing with. I know you do. Don't you? Once again, I turn to you to validate my motherly short comings. Now, almost 6 months late, I finally find myself going through the pictures from Cole's Little Man 1st Birthday party. It was an awesome party, if I do say so myself. It is always fun to experience those 1 year ago discussions in the days leading up to my kid's birthdays. I must say, with all of the drama in getting him here safe and sound, those days were even more special. With no further delay, here is a sneak peak into my little man's special day!
From his entry into this big world, people have said Cole just looks like a little old man. I think it is his hair. He may have set a record for hair cuts in the first year at 8!!! With that being a common statement about him, we decided to have a Little Man Birthday Bash, complete with mustaches and neckties!
This was our center table. All of my printables came from Gretchen at
Three Little Monkeys Studio. She was wonderful to work with! We served pulled pork and ribs from the Mayor of Grove himself, Marty Follis. It was scrumptous, as usual! We also had fresh fruits and veggies and chips and dip.
It was so much fun to put together Cole's first year in photos. Bless him, he truly is a second child. I just don't have the mass quantity of pictures of him that I do when KJ was this age. I must say, the garland was one of my favorite parts of his party! And when you are born in mid-March you will pretty much always celebrate your birthday with March Madness in the background. Luckily, I don't think he will mind!
He found his favorite present pretty early.
Sadly, that little orange football recently died at the teeth of Bella, our puppy. Baaaad Bella......
He didn't really understand why everyone was singing at him. Poor guy!
He got over it pretty quickly though!!
All done!!!
Happy Birthday, Little Man!
We love you!!
Hey Charla! I have a confession of my own... I may or may not have spent the last couple hours reading your entire blog. I saw you post this link on fb tonight and had never visited your blog (& I love blogs) so I thought why not start at the beginning and skim through them. Well you are a very great bloggist - is that a word? Probably not but if it was you'd be a great one. I laughed out loud several times which woke up Jonathan who's already been passed out for several hours already. So i ended up reading and reading. Which I might regret tomorrow at work since its 2:30 am now. I loved hearing all your stories of Kennedy growing up and all of your different transitions you've made in the past few years.
ReplyDeleteI related to so many of your posts - a lot of the potty training ones too haha. Your kids are adorable and I am glad to have met you recently. :)
ReplyDeleteP.S. I am not a stalker or creeper. I am a night owl and love blogs so that shall be my excuse for reading ALL of yours. :)