One Year

Fresh out of bed and he goes right for his yellow and orange jeep.

Ajay's jeep says, "Bbbbbbb!"

"You only ever have one first birthday."

After a lovely morning at home, our dear friends, Pastor Jim and Miss Pam wanted to celebrate Ajay's first birthday together, so off we went to "Nana and Poppy's" for a special party.

After getting acclimated to his surroundings, I opened Nana's toy cabinet for Ajay.

He wasted no time, and paid no interest in any other toys, before he uncovered the object in the cabinet with the biggest wheels. Yeah buddy.

After some family time, Nana and Poppy wanted to give some gifts to Ajay.

That's when Nana busted out the prized bag of tissue paper.

Of course the bag was filled with presents, but getting the Paper-Eater to see them was a fun challenge. Letting him figure it out that there is more than just paper in the bag was part of the gift for me ;-)

Nana told Ajay, "This game is for Brutes!" And subsequently began whacking down the colorful wooden pegs with the tiny hammer.

Ajay's look says, "Impressive swing, Nana!"

After some peg-banging, I made the group look at me by calling, "Everyone look at momma!" Hmmm...that didn't quite work out exactly the way I planned.

Poppy had some golden oldies playing and he and Ajay danced to their heart's content. After all, Poppy and Ajay share a birthday!

"It's our party and we will dance if we want to!"

Time for a birthday dinner. Normally, people think of celebrating with birthday cake.

For us Egg-ies and our fam, we celebrated by putting a candle in Ajay's birthday cantaloupe.

The rest of us enjoyed Pam's newest and delicious homemade creations.