Belated Happy Birthday Aaron!

Perhaps its fitting to publish about Aaron's birthday on his 19th month mark but at least it is before Miriam's birthday.My family came down to celebrate the weekend before his birthday as the weekend after was a family reunion we all went to. We did the basics- presents and cake, and called it good, but we all enjoyed it.
My mom is really into balloons and so we got a colorful bouquet for Aaron and I think it was his favorite present. He loves batting them around. It probably will continue to be a birthday staple. Miriam had a very hard time with all of Aaron's presents. On the right you see her opening one of Aaron's presents and we had to keep getting after her to let Aaron open them. Somehow we took way more pictures of Aaron opening presents than we did with Miriam so here are the best of those who were helping him open up his loot.
Daddy and Miriam helping..Mommy helping unwrap a ball..Once again the point comes home that one year olds don't care about a ton of presents. He got way more than he was interested in and it was excruciating to keep him focused long enough to open all the presents. My mom forgot that and was basing off Miriam who loves opening presents and the more the better so we tend to separate and unwrap every little thing for her and it just didn't work so well for Aaron.

Aaron got what will be tradition for first birthdays- a Care Bear cake. In his case liking blue we went with Bedtime Bear (hoping that was an indication of good habits to come) which was better than Grumpy Bear (the other blue bear). He sure looks interested in what this cake is.

He thoroughly enjoyed the cake as evidenced. He didn't really get into it till someone handed him a fork then he really went to town! Happy Birthday Aaron!