Caelan's Birthday Evening

I will be breaking down all the birthday pictures into three sections..... these are from Matt's dad's camera, then I will post the ones from our camera of this same evening, then the ones from his cookout party on the Saturday that followed.

We had a spaghetti dinner first.... he was so cute with his orange face! He actually does really well with feeding himself but ya know.. s'ghetti can be messy for anybody.... granted, not in our hair.... or eyes... or ears.... but hey... good stuff!



Caelan opened several nice cards and gifts from grandma and grandpa, and from "Mama" and "Dada" and a couple from some friends.

Then we sang "Happy Birthday" to him and blew out the candle on his cupcake.....

We even had a nice bouquet of flowers! These are from our flower beds.

THEN of course we get to EAT the cupcake!!!

YUM! YUM! YUM!

Sorry so many are sideways.... I never have figured out how to rotate them on here! More to come in a day or so.....

Happy Birthday Caelan James!

Today is Caelan's first birthday and it has been really great! We took cupcakes to dispatch and said hello to everyone there, then stopped by Bonek in Suttons Bay (one of Matt's clients) and then to NICU. It was so good to see all the wonderful staff there... and they were excited to see Caelan and how big he has gotten. We actually miss them! Not the NICU... but the staff for certain. They are wonderful people.

Then we came home for dinner with Matt's parents- we had spaghetti and Caelan had it from his eyes on down and from ear to ear! He does well feeding himself- but s'ghetti is messy. His whole face was orange colored.

After dinner we called my mom so she would be online.... we had the video camera on and mom on speaker phone so she was able to 'join' us. We all sang Happy Birthday and helped Caelan blow out his candle. He received some really cool gifts- a dinosaur flashlight that roars, a wooden pull along duck, a fisher price pull along phone, a little people train, a peg puzzle with animal pieces that make sounds, a duck book with a stuffed mallard (the book character), a check from Pop to go pick out something fun, and one of those 5 in 1 cube things that has an abacus on one side and beads on bended wires.... hard to explain but it is like those you see in doctor offices sometimes.... when I post a picture of it you will all say..'Ohhh.... that!" He also received several nice cards.... he said to let everyone know that the cards were quite tasty!

After he opened gifts we gave him back his cupcake and let him dig into it..... he LOVED it! He liked the way it felt but he loved the frosting!! He ate more than one.... Matt's dad took lots of pictures and we have some on video so I will be posting some soon- I will have to get the disc from Matt's dad.

It was a great day and a wonderful evening!

Happy 1st birthday buddy- we love you!!!