1st Birthday

We started November of with a bang - or at least with a party. The boys turned 1!! Can I just say that the past year with them has been crazy, tireing and something that I don't care to repeat ever again, but I'm so glad to have these two little miracles in our family - for they truely are my miracle babies and we have been very blessed that there seems to be no lasting effects from their tramatic birth.  Erik had a busy work schedule the week of their birthday so we just had a small family party with his parents on Sunday evening.  We got the boys a couple of packages of CHUCK cars so that they could have some sort of boy toy to play with (these are the first ones in our house).  Here is W trying to figure out what to do with his package.

And C was too busy stareing at the camera.

J finally opened their gifts for them - they loved the cars and love to roll them across the wood floors.

Then came the fun stuff, the CAKE.   Here are the boys anxiously waiting (or at least curious as to why they're in their seats again, we'd finished dinner not long before this).

Here are the before shots of the cakes. J decided that C needed the Cars one and W the Toy STory one. 

We were brave parents and actually lit the candles while we sang Happy Birthday.

Then J helped to quickly blow them out before we had burnt fingers.

Then came the "what am I supposed to do with this?" expressions.  Here is C testing the waters.

W was just as confused curious as to what he was supposed to do.

He had to inspect the frosting before trying it out.

However, once they got a taste of it, there was no stopping them.  Here is W up to his elbows in frosting.

Here he is realizing that he got caught trying to reach over and steal some off C's tray.

Notice how C is a littler messier?

Here's why. 

So proud of himself.

Needless to say when they were done, the boys went straight to the tub, cakes to the trash, and trays to the sink.  I think we were washing frosting off the hairchairs (and chairs) for the next week or more.

W's 1 year stats:

Weight: 23lbs 8 oz (60.56%)
Height: 29.25" (31.64%)

C's 1 year stats:

Weight: 23lbs (52.92%)
Height: 29" (24.47%)