Mason's First Birthday

I feel like I say this a lot, but this is one of my favorite pictures! This was Mason's first birthday. I can't believe the little guy is 1. The year "at home" went by so fast. Those nights of waking up 5-8 times didn't go fast..... haha! Man, it's about time for that to start up again, we have had a good stretch of waking up 1-2 times...... that's probably about over. 

We got our Monster cake from Lincoln-Center Hy-Vee, they did a great job! And that cake on the right, that was Mason's smash cake. It fed probably 4 people, it was a big smash cake! There was SO much frosting but it was SO good!! I am not a big cake person (hence the cookie), but boy this cake was delicious! 

He was scooting but not yet 'really' crawling at 1. He started really crawling about the day after his first birthday. But boy could he scoot and get where he wanted to go! This is two months later now, but I think he had about 5 teeth around his first birthday. 

The cakes had to be out of reach of his go-go gadget arm. He gets into everything that's within about 3 feet of him. It's amazing. Even when I thought the cakes were pretty far away, he still got them! 

Cousin picture - No idea where Nolan was, but that's not a surprise! 

All the fingers coming in for a taste. Mason liked his cake better than Addison did at her first birthday! 

Nolan had been waiting all day to get into this cake. He called cake "Happy Day" and he was dying for some! 

This kid really got into it. He loved it! That blue frosting was everywhere! Mason saw Nolan shoving cake in his face so he wanted to give it a try. 

Nolan and his "Happy Day". Nicole and Brayden couldn't come this time so we sent these to Nicole :) 

 

Flexible baby

Addison was sleeping on the couch and Mason was definitely ready for her to wake up :) He was yelling and pulling the blanket off, she was dead to the world! 

Showing off his flexibility. He was doing the splits while stuck under the picnic table. He does the splits and can rotate his hips around, it's so crazy. 

Frequently rides in the stroller like this. Or with both feet up by his head. 

Flying her kite. 

 Ryan got tired on the walk so he bucked a ride with Addison. Ha! 

She liked that the girl on her shirt had a red skirt and she had a red skirt. 

Little Nolan came to our house and Addison was so excited. Even better that he brought a birthday gift :) She got a horse and a horse trailer for her dolls. She loves it! 

And this dude loved the Karoake boom box. He thought that was pretty cool. It plays 1 Trolls song. Good thing Ryan and I don't mind noise-making toys :) We were pretty excited to see Nolan too, he's such a fun kid!