This post is almost 2 months overdue. It’s been busy, but I’m finally playing catch up.

Here is Jack at 1 year old!
(January 26, 2013)

Here is Jack on the morning of his big day…

For Jack’s birthday, we invited many people over to our house to celebrate. We had family, adult friends and kid friends. It was fun and wild! Here are some photos.

Birthday house…

Homemade monkey cupcakes…

We invited all the friends from Mommy & Me, who started off playing in Jack’s room before moving outside…

Admittedly, having so many other kids playing in his room and with his toys seemed to really overwhelm Jack. And later, I boxed up all the toys that had been touched and washed them down to ensure no germs were lingering. Crazy mom!

We had tried to time Jack’s short party around his nap schedule, but of course the nap schedule broke down that day and so Jack was very tired by the time we got to candles and cupcakes. Here is Jack enjoying a little stressed out by his first birthday song…

Here he is tasting his first chocolate…

We think he actually liked the cupcake, but was hating the borrowed high chair and disconcerted by all the people staring and singing at him.

Two of our friends from Mommy & Me share Jack’s birthday, so we sang and celebrated Nicolas & Lucky with their own hats, cupcakes and candles…

After cupcakes, Jack headed into happy delirium and yukked it up with family…

All in all it was a fun party, but I will probably not host a kid’s birthday party that large any time again soon. I learned my lesson.

In the week leading up to Jack’s 52 week anniversary, we had a lot of fun playing with musical instruments and garden supplies…

As parents know, the first year is a challenging whirlwind, but our Jack is well worth it…

We love you, our sweet, hilarious, intensely curious boy!
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