I cannot believe my baby is 1! What an incredible year it has been for us. He is the biggest blessing that we could have ever even dreamed of and Lou and I literally tell each other every day how lucky we are to have this little boy. He is just such a little character and makes us laugh every day. His new accomplishments: walking with a one hand assist, having full conversations in his own "foreign language", dunking his face in the bathtub water and putting his face in the shower water with his mouth open and drinking the water. Now that we have had a few days of warm weather, we have gone on a few long walks and it is the only time of day that he is super chill and relaxed. He loves looking around at everything and is pointing things out...like to a bird and saying "whats that?" I took a walk with my mom to Cosley Zoo by us today and he loved the animals. He has now added the monkey sound to his animal noises and as he does it he shakes his head from side to side. Apparently I did that when I was teaching him and it just cracks me up every time he does it. He is such a little imitator! We had his party with friends and immediate family at a little kiddie gym called My Gym. There were lots of Nico's friends that came to celebrate with him and there were lots of fun activities. As much as he loves attention, he didn't quite know what to do with all of it that day. He was a little wide eyed! 
Starting to eat the cake. He did put his face in for a minute but it is on my mom's camera! 
Lindsey sewed a 1 on the back of his shirt and a sock monkey on the front...he went with the theme of the day! Mommy likes to dress him for the occasion!
Here is is with his birthday crown and everyone singing happy birthday!
Yummmmmm!
Lindsey and my mom helped decorate his monkey cupcakes. I made them with banana cake and then had fun decorating them. They turned out super cute. I literally spent all day in the kitchen and made 3 different recipes before I found the perfect one for his cupcakes. Good thing I had bought extra bananas! I have a freezer full of extra banana muffins! The kids at the party really loved them!
This is my first ever attempt at cake decorating and I am pretty proud of myself! I think the monkey turned out great and I had a lot of fun doing it. There will be lots of fun cakes for future birthdays!!!
Awww! We love each other!
This is from Nico's real birthday. It is his first taste of sugar and he loved it! He smashed the cupcake up to his face and kept saying "mmmmmmmmmmm" and kicking his feet! We had Lindsey and Jack and grandparents over for a mini celebration on the big day. It definitely was birthday week around here. We were so excited for this little boy's big day!
Auntie Lindsey and Auntie Kristin (in town from NYC) bought Nico a bouquet of balloons to celebrate his big day. He LOVED them! We walked into his room in the morning (see pic below) with the balloons and sang happy birthday to him and now they are tied to his high chair. All day he points to them and says "ball!". He used to call them boons until he learned the word ball and now everything that is round is called a ball!
Happy Birthday baby boy! It was so fun to celebrate all weekend and thanks to everyone who came to his party! 
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