Happy First (and Belated!) Birthday, Isaac!

While we celebrated Isaac's birthday on time, I am obviously a few weeks late posting about it. (See following posts for explanation in my lack of blogging...) We had a party for him at Jake's parents' house with just (all 40 of us!) family. We did a little swimming, some eating, and even a pinata! Isaac seemed to really have a good time-especially once he got his first ice cream! I was so excited because he never ate anything with a spoon-never ate rice cereal, baby food-nothing...until he tried that ice cream. He couldn't get enough of it. I thought-yay! Maybe now he'll start eating applesauce and mashed potatoes. How wrong I was-he will still eat ONLY ice cream from a spoon.

We had a farm theme for his party-this is the cow cake that Jake and I made for him (thanks, FamilyFun.com for the idea and directions!) and one of the little farmer cupcakes.

I called every party store in Des Moines looking for a cow, pig, chicken, horse, etc. pinata and no one had one! I could find them online, but I hate paying shipping for something I can get without paying extra. I settled on this one-no pun intended-and it worked out just fine. The kids had a great time with it. I think I'll be expected to have a pinata at all of Isaac's parties from now on. :)

Isaac enjoyed attempting to open his gifts-he cried a few times when we would open one, take it away, and then get the next one. He didn't understand why he could only have his toy for a few seconds. Poor guy! Because we left for Florida the next day, he didn't get much time to play with his new toys. Now that we are back and settled from all our adventures, he's really enjoying all the new toys and books (and I love all his cute new clothes!).