On Wednesday, December 7, 2011, this week, we celebrated the 1st birthday of my baby boy, Lexington, part of the reason for starting this blog. It started off as what should have been the most perfect day. We woke to snow on the ground, roofs, and cars, but roads were clear. Lexington even slept in not waking until close to 9 when I finally woke him up, afraid he would sleep the day away. Our very happy peaceful morning was soon interupted by anger and resent, and stomach in knots due to issues with Aaron and Ron, and the discussion of court on Tuesday, Dec 13th. It wasn't until much later that I was able to come back to concentrating on celebrating my sweek little man and his very big birthday...his first. I must admit that through all this, I had almost forgotten another very special man in my life, my husband, for he and Lexington share the same birthday. By midmorning, I had remembered Ben and wished him a happy birthday.
On his actual birthday, I got Lexington a Happy Birthday Singamajig and a small piano. We bought mini carrot cupcakes and let him blow out his candle as well as eat his cake. Lexington was so sweet in eating his cupcake, he carefully ate all the frosting off the top with little pincher bites. He would pinch the icing, put it in his mount, then pinch some more and eat again. After all the frosting was off, he crammed the whole mini cupcake into his mouth. I had to get a picture, then like a good mom, I dug it out of his mouth, broke it in half and let him cram half of it back in, too funny to watch him eat it since he still has no teeth.
We celebrated his birthday with a big party on Saturday. His cake was amazing, not quite what I had pictured, but still super cute. I also picked Ben up a cake to celebrate him as well. Needless to say, not many people wanted cake so we still have a ton left over in our fridge, Cake anyone? LOL. I stayed up late the night before his party putting some of the finishing touches on his menu. I only left one thing off and I was too tired to include it and there just wasn't enough time on Saturday to fit it in. I made deviled eggs, a chipped beef with green onions and olives cheese ball served with wheat thins, and pinwheels made with flour tortillas, some of which were cream chese with olives and green onions, ham and white american cheese and turkey with cheddar cheese, on the sweet side, I made homemade carmel corn, fairly simple and tasted great but took arm strength, rice crispy treats, a tastefully simple key lime cheese ball with twisty grahams and homemade white fudge dipped oreos. I had water bottles with personalized labels made that said Lex is 1 and I made lemonade. Then of course there was the cake which was a white cake with the best buttercream icing I have ever had and a raspberry filling and citrus sherbert. We had a wonderful turn out. Ben's parents came, along with his sister Julia and her daughter Lindy, his brother Dan, his wife and two sons, sister Laura her husband and their daughter, my friend Ashley, her mom Theresa, and Ashley's daughter Courtney (Lex's BFF), Sarah, David and Landon Henderson, Crystal, Britt and Bryson Newton, Phillip, Destiny, Jude and Josie Jackson, Kyla, Mike, Ethan, Aubreyann, and Desi Henderson, Betty Ann and John Edwards and Cammi, Dave and Amy Gericke. (Hoping I didn't leave anyone out). It was mass chaos at its finest. I also had Brian Meeks and Pauline Murphy onsite doing photography. The party was centered around the photography and I hope that all my guests were able to get pictures. I know the mid range kids had a blast dressing up with the various props and such. I am waiting to see the pictures. Again, Lex had his own smash cake but proceded to eat it much the way he ate his cupcake, picking the icing off and it eating it one pinch at a time. The girl who decorated his personal cake for some reason did black piping around the base so by the time he was done, he had black everywhere, smeared all over his face, in his hair, in his ears, everywhere.
My only disappointment was that I wanted to put together a time capsule for Lexington, something for him to open on his 18th birthday. Unfortunately, not a lot of people went with the time capsule idea and we got more toys and gifts than we did donations to the time capsule. Since we haven't sealed it yet, we are hoping to have a few last minute stragglers out there.
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