I cannot believe that this smiley little boy . . . .
. . . . is now a One year old!!!
In reality it makes sense.
I look back over everything that has happened this year and I am surprised that it has only been twelve months. We have packed quite a bit into a year I'd say.
This little smiley man is just what we needed in our house. A loving, happy, sweet little man that is just a light to us!
Paxton's actual birthday being on Christmas Eve puts a little bit of constraint on what we can actually do for a party on his birthday. For the real day we slept in and then went out to lunch at Red Robin. Sadly there aren't many options for restaurants open on Christmas Eve, but Pax likes their fries, so I don't think it bothered him too much.
We decided to do Paxton's birthday on December 29th which just so happened to also be Daddy's 29th birthday! We went with a hobo theme.
There seemed to be a lot of confusion on why we chose that.
I can honestly say I said it as a joke to Eric and then we just kind of ran with it. Everyone is broke after the holidays. Everyone has eaten way too much unhealthy food. Everyone is tired of playing games and seeing each other and basically everyone is just plain tired.
I'm sure when Paxton gets a bit older we will be more concerned about making this a special day and forcing everyone to smack a smile on their face.
So bum party it was.
The invitations were easy. We gave everyone a piece of cardboard with some crazy homeless person sign and a date and time on it. Decorations in the house were easy too. Christmas had left us with a plethora of boxes that we cut up and wrote on. Eric gets most of the credit on the signs, and he came up with some pretty awesome ones. For dinner we did chilli mac, spaghetti o's or hot dogs. The plan had been to let everyone roast their own hot dogs over a trash can fire, but the snow storm that hit the day before made that impossible.
Dessert was lofthouse cookies (which Paxton loves . . . me loving them was just an added bonus), donuts, and muddie buddies. We were trying to really grasp the bum menu when we planned this, so don't think we are just cheap-o's.
Pax got a lot of clothes and a pillow car from us. Many toys from everyone else - he will never need more toys again after Christmas and his birthday.
It was a requirement that everyone who came to the party had to dress like a bum and bring their own cardboard sign. Ther was a prize to the best dressed and the best sign . . . . it was a can of pork and beans. But here are some of the pictures we snagged of everyone in their hobo finest.
Paxton's huge monster pile of presents. . . . that he showed no interest in opening.
No one in our family loves cake. I can at it. My grandma makes some pretty spectacular cakes. We love the huge Costco cake too. But with those as the only exceptions, we don't love cake. Plus we were leaving early the next morning for Portland so the last thing I wanted was a huge cake we had to finish eating, and I didn't much love the idea of buying that big expensive Costco cake and wasting it. So Eric and Paxton both blew out candles on donuts for their birthday.
Pax loves donuts!
This is the pillow car I was talking about. When we bought it I don't think either Eric or myself knew that he was going to love it as much as he does. And we REALLY didnt' think that the other two kids would love it as much as they do. Basically we have been told we have to get Parker and Preslie their own for their birthdays. That should be easy for Preslie since her birthday is only a few weeks away.
They run around the house pushing each other on this car four hours!
Happy birthday to my adorable little Pax-man!
Mommy and Daddy love you more than words could ever describe!
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