Birthday Recap

So, like most events in his life so far, The Bean got to celebrate his first birthday twice.

We first celebrated a few weeks early with Jen's family while we were in PA.

Grandma, Grandpa, Nan, Pap, (Great) Aunt and Uncle all joined in the festivities.  We had my family's traditional hot milk cake and ice cream (!) then The Bean opened gifts.  We've actually put aside some of the gifts that he received for Christmas and his birthday and don't plan on pulling them out until later in the year.  We'll also continue to rotate what we have out for him at home so he doesn't get bored or overwhelmed.

After The Bean had a bath and went to bed we had a nice grown-up dinner prepared by Grandma.  It was a wonderful celebration.

 

 

 

This past Saturday we celebrated at home.  We had every intention of keeping things small, but it ended up being quite the shindig.  Oma, her best friend, both my siblings and their SOs, Nana, (great) Aunt and three (second) cousins, a close family friend and her daughter, The Bean's best friend and his parents.  That's 19 people.  Good thing we were trying to keep it small... I can't imagine what it would have been like if we had invited "everyone"!

We had various things to snack on, a store-bought cake and a homemade cake that looked like The Bean that my aunt made.  The kids played while the adults chatted.  And, of course, there were more presents.  This boy is set in terms of toys for the year! 

 

We think that The Bean really enjoyed his birthday parties.  He was smiling and social through both of them and crashed hard afterwards!  We had fun celebrating and are looking forward to everything his second year brings.