Celebrating The First Day Of The Rest Of His Life

I posted here about Mason's birthday, but I wanted to give you the whole picture. Around here, we take our time with birthdays. We spread them out and share them with the WHOLE family. Until you get to be a big boy--like me--birthdays are strictly a family affair. But don't worry, Mason comes from two pretty enormous families so he did okay on the celebration front this year.

First, we celebrated with Mommy's side of the family over Easter.

Here is cake #1. Mammaw (grandma-the-great) got this one for us and she got a sweet picture cake. Isn't Mason just a cutie patootie? He was delicious :)

A little "happy birthday to you" then it was time for cake.

Mason was not too sure about it at first.

But once he got a bite down...

...it was on!

He had it all figured out then.

Flirting with Aunt Monica.

Oh yea, get it all in the crevaces.


"Who wants a hug?"

Next, we had his birthday celebration on his birthday weekend with Daddy's family.

Here is cake #2. Mason had his one year photos the morning of his birthday so this cake made an appearance.

cheese! He got his very own smash cake for the pictures.

Mommy says Mason looks like he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar in this picture. It is a rare photo where he is not smiling, but believe me when I tell you that he was happy with all of that cake. :)

Later we had Mason's party at Mimi and Pepaw's house. Again, a party with just the cousins equals a party of 8!

We all helped Mason open his presents.

He loved this little book. And it can go in the bath tub. We like anything that can go in the bath tub.

A little more "Happy Birthday to You" and...

...bring on the cake!

Mason was quite proficient at eating cake by himself at this point, but he wanted Mommy to feed him her cake (at which point it became his cake).

Happy Birthday Baby Brother!

~Miles