Caleb's First Birthday Party!

We had a great time and were SO thankful that Caleb was fully well by Saturday. I worked hard to make sure that his cake had no dairy in it, but apparently the eggs in the cake got him b/c he started breaking out once he got into the cake :( I didn't really think about them bothering him b/c he seems to do fine if I eat eggs in baked goods, just not on their own. But he'd never had any himself, so now we know. Once he got over that trauma (it was trauma b/c he started rubbing his eyes with his frosting covered hand which only made things worse) he decided to hit his head on the piano leg and get a nice bump on the head. Once people started leaving he was much happier and played very contentedly with his bag of gifts, the balloons, and of course the singing birthday card from great-grandma & grandpa Minnick :)

I kinda went overboard on the food, but it was just too fun! And he LOVED the decorations, so they're still up :) Glad he appreciated my work anyway :)

The Caterpillars!!!

The Cake

I condensed the food items to categories rather than doing all the foods in the book :)

He was so proud of himself for putting that hat on all by himself. Too cute!

We decided to sit outside for the gifts since it was SO nice and there were a few of us here (Mom & Dad, Amy, Sam, J & A, Andrew & Meagan, Daniel and us ). Thanks so much for coming, y'all! It was fun and we were glad Caleb was able to celebrate his first birthday with family!

The Book

We bought him The Very Hungry Caterpillar book and had everyone sign it as his "guest book." Now he'll always remember who came to his first birthday party! :) Ok, so like I said, I may have gone a little crazy over this party but it was so much fun! And the nice thing is he won't remember it next year so its not like he'll expect bigger and better :-)

He had his 1 year check-up today! His growth has slowed way down, which is fine with me. :) He actually weighs less than he did at his 9mo appt. but I'm sure some of that is due to the fact that he didn't eat any solids last week because of his fever. He's down to 37th % for weight (20.5lbs), and 55th % for length (30in.) 

Here are a few more pictures from last week that I didn't get to post earlier. Enjoy!

Love you all!