Aaron is 1!

I can not believe that it has been a year since we had Aaron. He was born on May 14th of last year. Well now a few days over a year. Time is just flying by. Before I forget here are Aaron's stats from his latest doctor's appointment.
Head 48cm - 90th percentile (no wonder I have a hard time getting his shirts on ;)
Height 76.5cm (30.1 inches) - 60th percentile
Weight 21.2lbs - 25th percentile
He is healthy and eats everything in site. He is a fast crawler when he wants something and now can get everywhere in the house.

We were able to have a party for his birthday on Friday evening. We had family and a few friends over. So it was a good crowd. From what I could tell everyone had fun and enjoyed themselves.

We started out the night with Pizza, chips and soda. Then we went on to some games. The favorite game was a bean bad toss that we borrowed from Stephen's Mom. She made it before Stephen was even born. It was fun to learn some of the family history through the bean bag toss. Here is a shot of Joseph throwing the bean bags. He did very well.













We also had a ring toss and ball toss games but I don't know how those went because I was over at the bean bag game. But what the kids liked most was just general chaos and running around.













Then it was time for Cupcakes!














We had each kid decorate their own cupcakes. We had lots of sprinkles and colored sugars. We also had M&M(normal and mini), Reeses peeses (normal and mini), candy corn, licorice ropes, gummie bears and gummie worms.














Here are my cousins Annie and Ty with their creations.














Brad had fun with the licorice.














Niece Ruth showing off her Gummy Bear cupcake.














Our friend Kennedy with her cupcake.














Niece Victoria with her cupcake.

After the cupcakes we sang to Aaron and gave him his own cupcake. At first he was trying to share and then he was wondering why all these people were staring at him. He did eat part of it and I think he liked it but he didn't get too messy like I thought he would.



















































Here is a picture of Aaron with the cake we got for the grownups to eat.
Then the best part of the night the Pinatas. First was the baby pinata. This was Stephen's brain child. He made a box out of construction paper and then added lots of shapes and a couple of paper chains to the box. He said it looked like a 5th graders art project. Most of the carnage of all the pinatas was caught on video so I only have a few photos. The babies had fun tearing at it, but most of the damage was made by the parents. :)

Then came the pinata for the 2 to 4 year olds. Each kid got to hit it twice before we finally gave up and destroyed it and let them get the candy.











Then we had a pinata for the 5 and up crowd. This pinata barely lasted the first round that we were very surprised when it lasted a second round. Then we discovered that the structure was very well made so we helped it a little.
After the pinatas were done we cleaned up and went home, we had the party at our Townhome's community center. It was a nice open space that we can use. Thanks to everyone who came and made it a special birthday for Aaron!

Easter: A Recap

Sorry it has taken us so long to get this up, but it has been a busy month. The Saturday before Easter we were able to go to two parties. Joseph thought he had died and gone to heaven. The first was a family party put on by Grandma and Grandpa Bair. We went to their church for a nice lunch and an Easter Egg hunt. Later that night we had a party thrown by our friends Shannon and Mac, and Shannon's parents. They served a yummy dinner and the entire floor of the church gym was covered in toys and treats for the kids. She even made little baskets for the babies. Unfortunatly Stephena and Aaron had to miss the second party because Aaron had a rash on his back that we thought might be chicken pox. Thank goodness it wasn't but we just couldn't take the chance of maybe getting other little babies sick. We also forgot our camera at these two events so we have no pictures from them, but we did have a lot of fun.

We had so much candy from Saturday that we decided to wait for a while to do our easter egg hunt. We did it the next week on Monday. Joseph had lots of fun trying to find the eggs in our living room and we even had some on the floor for Aaron (filled with baby puffs). They also got hooded towels that I had made for them and a bunch of trains and track.

The boy's Easter out fits

I'm sorry it has been so long since we posted last. It has been a busy month. I don't have time to tell all of you about our Easter and everything else that has happened in the last month at this moment. I promise I will do that soon. But I will put up some cute pictures of the boys in their Easter clothing.