Cake!

This week will mark Nate's first birthday, so when we visited Maine for Thanksgiving we decided to kill a few birds with one stone and celebrate Thanksgiving, Nate's birthday and Aunt Amanda's 19th birthday all at once. For the occasion I made some Cookie Monster cupcakes which Nate tackled with with gusto. He has never had a full serving of cake or other junk food sweets before even though once last Summer Gram really wanted to give him an ice cream sandwich (which I did not allow). Nate started out neatly enough but he quickly accelerated to double fisted mouth squishing.









Later, after about 42 of Amanda's closest friends home from college packed into the livingroom, Nate opened some birthday presents from Gram. He seemed a little confused by it all, but did get pretty happy when he opened a box containing a gargantuan Elmo.



Aunt Amanda got him a little Colby sweatshirt.



Nate got even more presents on Thanksgiving when his GREAT grandparents visited. What a lucky lil' stinker! Check out the huge lego...the huge legos and the huge Elmo make regular sized people feel little.



What a nice Thanksgiving!