Andrew's Birthday

On Monday, we celebrated Andrew's 1st birthday...boy has time flown by! I can't believe it's already been a year since he was born! We spent the weekend with Dan's parent's and had a family birthday party for both Andrew and Tammy (Andrew's cousin) on Memorial Day. I made Andrew's birthday cake. I debated whether I really wanted to take the time to decorate an elaborate cake, but I thought that Andrew might look back on pictures later and wonder why his big brother had a homemade Pooh cake for his first birthday and he had a store bought cake :-). So, I made Andrew a Pooh cake also...and I'm glad I did. I had fun doing it. Julie (Dan's sister) brought over Tammy's cake on Sunday after church and we decorated them together with the kids all watching. Here's how the cake turned out...

Anyway, everyone came over about noon for hamburgers, hot dogs, and brats. The kids all played while we were getting the food ready. After dinner, Andrew and Tammy blew out their candles on their cakes. Of course, Andrew needed some help with that from his big brother, but he looked interested in the candle. Then they opened presents. Andrew got some balls, a walker, a Little People bus, and a Leapfrog steering wheel. He didn't get to play with the toys too much, because his cousins took them over :-). He didn't care. The funniest part was when we gave him a piece of cake. At his cousin Ricky's birthday party two weeks earlier, Dan had fed Andrew some cake and ice cream, and he liked it, so we thought he'd have a blast feeding himself some cake. However, Ricky's cake was white, and I made Pooh chocolate. Apparently Andrew doesn't like chocolate cake!! He was picking at the frosting, so I took a spoon and gave him a taste of the cake part to get him started as to what it was. He spit it out and wouldn't eat anymore! He was more interested in playing with the spoon. I'm sure he'll grow to love my chocolate cakes, though :-). I'm going to include some more birthday pictures below...