First Cadbury Egg

Emmett got a Cadbury egg for his birthday from Tina, Jake and Madison Kelley. I didn't allow him to have it during the party since we were going to give him cake. So here it is...

Obviously it was a hit. He savored it. He also now knows that anything with a foil wrapper is good to eat...Thank you Kelley Family!

Alestair

I cut Alestair's hair for the first time on my own!

I fed him cheerios and a peppermint patty to keep him still. He did very very well! And his hair doesn't look too bad.

Robert's really awesome CSRs got Alestair a mechanical cat after they found out how much he loves them. Shari has a cat meow for a ring on her phone and during a game night Alestair heard it and went crazy looking for the cat that was crying. He had just woken up when he saw it.

 He was a little scared that is meowed at first.



"this is my bag of cars."



Do you see it?

This is a ball



Combing its fur.



 Quickly he started to share his toys with it. He now carries it by the tail. In one day the batteries died. He dragged it to me in the kitchen and told me his cat stopped talking and it was hungry.

 It has batteries again and is scaring Emmett every time it meows.

Giving it a ride on Emmett's trike

"uh so heavy!"

You can sleep with Belle Dog.

Ok if you are not going to play you can
go back into the box.

You don't fit in the box and you're
heavy so I will carry you by the tail.



You must be hungry.



I will feed you a chocolate egg.





Eat the egg!



Early in the morning

Can you tell that Emmett likes his new trike?

HA! I caught you mom!

If you didn't notice, Emmett was holding on really tight to his frog. These were taken at 6:30am. Yes AM. Alestair was still sleeping. I wanted to be still sleeping as you can see from the next picture.

Emmett's 1st Birthday Party

Our little baby turned one! The year flew by! We celebrated his birthday with friends on Saturday, April 16, 2011. We had a firetruck theme.

It was the first time I tried a theme and it was a lot of fun! We had yellow and red decorations, a yellow bucket for the presents, and a red bucket for the favors. I put the favors in clear plastic bags with red tissue paper lining the inside and twist tied the tops so they kinda looked like flames. I also made the boys matching shirts with iron on firetrucks. They turned out so darn cute! Of course we had our traditonal year of pictures. This time I put them on the wall instead of a tree since there was no way we were going to have the party outside. This also made it so I could write "Emmett's 1st year" above it. Candace made the most adorable cakes! It was yummy homemade chocolate "crazy cake" with some candy in the filling. She did a firetruck for the cake for everyone and a little circle cake with an E for Emmett.

 

 So cute! We decided it was best to do it quick since Emmett gets overwhelmed and lets you know he want to go to bed about 7:30. We opened presents first. He recieved 3 tub toy trucks, a light flahing/spining wand and a bouncing, jiggling, music playing ball from our friends Garrett and Stephanie (and Emmett's friend Teagen who also just turned one). The Marion family gave Emmett the coolest trike! Its a little giraffe and you push it along with your feet. The Kelley's gave Emmett a lift the flap John Deere book and his first cadbury egg. That is what he is asking me to open for him in the first picture of the collage. Alestair picked out some touch and feel flash cards for him. Emmett just loves them and Alestair loves to show them to him. On the way home from buying them Alestair had to show them one at a time to Emmett. It went a little like this "What's this? What is it? Its a pish. Say pish. Pish PIISH." and so one with each of the cards. Robert and I g

ave Emmett a most adorable frog Scentsy buddy. He loves it. It now goes everyewhere with us. Grandma Fee and Aunt Stacy sent a gift to him that got here just a few hours before the party. It had a new Sunday shirt and vest and two of Emmett's favorite books (Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and Down by the Bay).

 

As it is with most 1st birthdays, the best part was watching Emmett eat his cake. He had his foot resting on the table most of the time. It ended up being frozen still so we had to cut a slice for him but from there...you can see what happened. Robert put war paint frosting on him. He managed to not get his bib dirty at all. Alestair gave him instructions on how to eat cake. This was pretty amusing.



Candace, Tina and Candace's new little man Joel!



Emmett LOVES Joel. He loves Candace more
and hardly ever lets her walk by without holding him.
He throws a HUGE fit when she leaves or walks away.
He does not give kisses but does to Joel (and his frog).
Joel also got a hug.



Some very cute boys

 I love my adorable boys!

 Alestair is becoming a cheesemo. He sees the camera and wants you to take his picture when he says cheese. I did not teach him this but its pretty cute.

 He is pointing out his teeth. Nice and white!

One year ago on this same day Emmett wore a different shirt that also said he was a little brother on the very day he became the little brother.

Alestair was sleeping on the top bunk. I went to check on him and couldn't find him. I only saw his comforter. Well turns out he was in it. At the bottom of the bed. Only his little tooties and face peaking out.