I can't believe my baby boy turned 1 years old! I really took some time on his birthday and thought about a year ago in the hospital when I first met him. He is the joy of my life (and I think the joy of the life of anyone he meets). It's amazing how fast that year went. I was in school when he was born and I opted to take a semester off so I could spend some quality time with him and not miss those precious moments. Now that I'm back in school and I'm a semester behind, I can honestly say it was worth it! I wouldn't have traded anything in the world to share those moments growing with him!
Here's the snap shot of my VERY non-messy cake eater as far as infants go. We video taped him eating it to and may I just say it was ANTIclimatic as he just picked apart the cake piece and ate it piece by piece... and then sucked the frosting off his hands. Monica scolded me for not giving him a chocolate cake as the mess would be more revealing... See video on bottom.
Here was the cake we made. It was a simple white cake that we added shredded coconut and a little coconut extract, and then topped with toasted coconut on whipped frosting. It was the chocolate cake that one year birthdays demand, but it sure was yummy. We got a new bunt cake pan and I wanted to try it out as I have never made a bunt cake. The whole time I thought it looked like a giant donut from a Homer daydream in the Simpsons!
The morning of Rhett's birthday, I got him up, made him breakfast (more than the usual baby cereal-- he got scrambled eggs and pieces of potatoes and toast), and then got him dressed so he could pose for his birthday picture! This is an outfit grandma Lori got him for Christmas/birthday. I thought this picture really made him look more like the toddler he's becoming and less like the baby I brought home from the hospital.
Whenever I have the camera in my hand, Rhett is curious at what I am doing. This was also a good comparison picture to his birthday picture at the hospital. See below. It's amazing the changes! You can't see it really in the picture above, but Rhett happened to scratch his nose pretty good with his figure nails. Maybe he was trying to recreate the moments from the hospital when he scratched his face up (see picture below)!
When I looked at the birthday Video the first thought that came to me about his neatness is that he's going to be a prophet one day. Wouldn't that be somethings if that comes true.
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