Jacob's First Birthday Party!

Although his birthday was on Sunday, the 22nd, we decided to have his party on the 21st at my parents' house in Manteca. We had just moved the weekend before and having it in Manteca just seemed to make so much sense. August in the valley is usually incredibly hot, but the 21st we woke up to cool temperatures, so we even got to have the party outside in the backyard. (I'm sure it's a lot easier to be able to hose down a first birthday party mess than to have to scrub the tile floors...luckily, I really didn't do much clean up.)

Jacob did very well despite only sleeping about 45 minutes that morning. The party started at noon and we had hamburgers, watermelon, and grapes. Then we opened presents. Jacob didn't really get into the presents, but he did like the little soft Tonka cars from Uncle Mike and Auntie Karena. Tijs also liked playing with Jacob's toys.


Here Tijs is actually playing with the gift that he gave Jacob. I guess that's an advantage of being 8 months older...


Anyway, then we had cupcakes. I made them different colors so they might look like balloons.



Jacob was not sure what to do with the cupcake at first. I don't think he realized he could eat it. Once I broke it up and fed him some of the cake part, he got right into it.


Jacob's Uncle Mike Z thought it was funny to add frosting to Jacob's face so he'd have more colors. Jacob seemed to like the frosting a lot!

After a quick bath and a diaper change, the party was over, and I think it went very well!