1st birthday Celebrations

~~Our family on Xavier's Birthday~

So we have spent the last week dragging out Xavier's first birthday celebrations.

It all started with Xavier coming into our bed nice and early on his birthday morning. Obviously was feeling sentimental and wanted to share the moment with Mummy and Daddy. I woke at 4am and spent the next 10 minutes awake cuddling my little boy and reminiscing about his beautiful birth. I was even tragic enough to grab the camera and take some snaps at exactly 4.07am, but they didn't work too well as he flipped over and squashed up to Duane's back!

Duane left for work at the usual time of 5.30, but I got to snuggle in bed with both kids until 6.30am. Grace & I sung Xavier Happy Birthday (actually Grace didn't stop singing this!) We enjoyed a yummy breakfast and more cuddles then it was time for playgroup. Grandma came around so that she could come along with us (and to firmly hold the cake in the car).

We had spent the night before frantically preparing Xav's train cake which he was going to share with all his playgroup pals. Didn't turn out too bad, there were a few dodgy bits but overall it looked pretty good. It was also suspiciously missing some of the decorations, mainly the smarties. Seems Grace had taken a liking to them and had been venturing to the fridge and stolen a few.

Xav had a blast at playgroup, mainly doing the usual bolt to outside and making Mum chase him around. All the kids happily sat around munching on their fruit, cramming it all in as they knew that cake was coming. As the cake came out there was a chatter of excitement, seems the under 4's were impressed with my cake decorating skills!

Taa-da:

~~Train cake - Version 1~~

Xavier just wanted to get into in straight away, he really didn't care for the singing business he just wanted to EAT. We managed to make it through a quick version of happy Birthday before Xavier grabbed hold of the cake and swiped a piece of licorice and a handful of icing.

~~Xavier waiting to dig in~~

So the cake was demolished and all the kids stuffed their face full of the sugary goodness. Grace was most impressed with the lollies & the icing, couldn't really care for the cake though.

All that hard work and my masterpiece was reduced to being smeared over kids faces!

Do after the clean up, we went back to playing. Xavier and I were doing some puzzles, when I looked up and Duane walked in the door. What a surprise! He wasn't supposed to finish work until 11.30am, but he had gotten of an hour earlier to come and spend some time with his little boy. Grace was excited because she got to show him off and around. He had never been to our playgroup before, but with Grace as a guide he got to see EVERYTHING and meet EVERYONE.

Xavier was starting to get exhausted, seems this being 1 business is tiring. He crashed in the car holding onto his dangling spider toy. He always holds onto it when he falls asleep in the car, very cute.

~~Falling asleep on the way home, clutching his toy~~

We were going to have a picnic or head out to dreamworld, but the weather was a bit yucky so we decided to just stay at home and have a little indoor family picnic. We also gave Xav his present from Nanny, his first Tonka truck. He loves it, mainly piling all his favourite magnets in the back and pushing it around the floor. Xavier then got to unwrap his present from Mummy, Daddy & Grace. It was 2 beautiful wooden play centres, one is a farm and the other is a town. They are probably a little young for him now, but I don't think it will be too long before he is constructing cities.

So after playing the afternoon way, it was dinner, bath, boob, book and bed for Xavier. Then Mummy sat down and watched his birth again and bored Daddy to tears going over every minute detail.

As Xav's actual birthday was a Thursday, we decided to have a little party for him on the Sunday. It was an early lunch party, so the little kids could all go home and snooze later. They all had fun jumping on the jumping castle, playing on the swings, bouncing on the tramp and eating lots of food. Lia was so exhausted by it all she fell asleep on the swing....how cute!

~~Emily, Cooper, Malia & Xav enjoying sausages~~

~~This partying is all too much!~~

Grace and Cooper were having a great time in the dress up box, coming out and parading around in all sorts of lovely creations. At one stage cooper was insisting on wearing Grace's pink headband & the helmet!

~~Train cake - Version 2~~

I did a modified version of the train cake. After having so much left over from the one I made for playgroup, I culled a few of the carriages for the party one. Still looked ok, and everyone said it tasted great. Xav and Grace both enjoyed making a mess with the blue icing, smearing it everywhere. ~~Good balance Xav!~~

~~Sticky fingers~~

This photo hear just crack me up. It's taken just after Nicole had asked Grace to move out of the way so that she could get a photo of Xav with his cake. Well it seems that nobody puts Grace in the corner, she was devastated to think that somebody didn't want her in the photo.

~~What about me, it isn't fair~~

Xavier was spoilt rotten with presents. He was given t-shirt, hoodie and book from the Dews, taboodle crayons from the Cahills, wooden blocks from the Truets, boat bath toys from the Ryans, set of Cars books (complete with fluffy dice) from the Sparks, Adidas shoes and Myer voucher from the Pengs and a train set from Grandma and Pop. Completely spoilt!

I was also surprised with a gift from Nicole. A gorgeous pic that she had taken of Xav and I together. It was a total surprise & I absolutely adore the photo. The Pengs also generously gave me a bottle of Chloe perfume, Duane a pair of sunglasses that are also an MP3 player and camera & Grace the most beautiful yellow Cristian Dior sundress. I can't wait for it to warm up so she can swan around in that. I would have loved it for myself, but unfortunately the darn thing doesn't stretch!!!!

So after a lovely lunch we all went to bed for a nice relaxing snooze. I love our afternoon siesta's together. Just beautiful.

So there was our week of celebrating Xav's first year.