These two definitely make my life complete. A big thank you to Jeni Prosser of {framed} for capturing these precious moments while strolling through downtown Cincinnati on a beautiful April Sunday morning.
{Taken in Over-the-Rhine, Downtown Cincinnati and Lytle Park}
I feel like Easter is always a nice time to snap a few pictures of Myles. I mean, yeah of course, we all like to take pictures of the kids at Easter. But when I purchased these bunny ears you see him wearing…. before he was even born, I wanted to make it a tradition to have him wear them each year (even if I have to bribe him when he’s older and filled with embarrassment) to see how much he has changed from year to year as we celebrate Easter.
It’s pretty incredible! Below are the past two Easter pictures:
Man, this little guy is sure growing fast. The picture to the left is from when he was just 14 months and had him out egg hunting and attempting to ride a tricycle and the picture to the right is tiny tiny Myles at only 3 months, or actually 2 months old! He couldn’t even sit up or anything, It’s hard to remember him that way.
Anyway, we hope you all had a fabulous Easter!
This past weekend we had Myles’ 2nd birthday celebration. It’s hard to believe yet another year has passed. I felt like we *just* had his first birthday party!
Anyway, here are just a few pictures of our small but fun, sock monkey themed celebration.
I absolutely love this picture. He was having such a great time and couldn’t be more pleased that he got his own cupcake- all to himself.
We had the cutest invites. (Thank you Posh Pixels for the design). All I had to do was sew a little line around the edge of the invitations which was fun! I hadn’t sewn paper in awhile- or anything for that matter.
My mom making the cupcakes — cause everyone knows I can’t bake and if you didn’t, well now you do!
The cupcakes finished! John made the little toppers for the plain cupcakes and I made the little monkey ones using pieces of vanilla wafers and brown gel icing. Oh, and I made the stands. You can find out more about how I made them here, on cincysavers.com
Of course we had to decorate the chalk board/mirror to go with the sock monkey theme…
Another cupcake shot and the cookie cake I decorated. Not too bad, right?
Decorations. These little pennants were made with just random pieces of scrapbook paper in different colors and textures that I thought would go with the theme. I really like how they turned out!
So I’ll admit, this is sort of weird but it was fun and everyone got a good laugh out of it. I took a bunch of random pictures of Myles I found on my computer, enlarged them and printed them in black and white. They are from when he was three months old to just several months ago. I would have liked to add more to the birthday hats I cut out of the extra scrapbook paper but didn’t have the chance. If anything, Myles loved it so I kept it up until this weekend.
The uncertainty of fire on his food tray. Don’t worry, we were really close and he knew not to touch it.
Present time!
I still can’t believe my little guy is two! Time goes fast, that is for sure.
On a side note, I blogged about Myles’ party on cincysavers.com last week with tips on how to throw a kids birthday party on a budget. You can find that blog post, here: My Baby is Two and How to Throw a Birthday Party on a Budget!
Here’s a photo from last year and I couldn’t have even imagined what Myles would be doing this year. And it’s still hard to believe at just 14 months old, he is out Easter egg hunting, pretending to ride his tricycle and eating Easter dinner with us.
We had such a wonderful day. The weather was beautiful so we spent a lot of time outside, playing with Adobe, hunting for eggs, and just enjoying the cool breeze and warm sunshine with the people we love.
I can’t believe it has already come and gone. My baby is officially one. (almost 13 months now!)
To be honest, I went back and forth deciding if I wanted to have a party or not. We had thoughts of renting a place out, having it at our neighbors or just doing something small at our house. About a week before his big day, I chose the latter option. I’ve never mentioned it before, but I have a little PTSD going on from the terrible birth experience. Think nightmares, flashbacks and there for awhile it was so bad, I couldn’t stand seeing pregnant women. It was never something I wanted to bring up because who wants to here a depressing sob story about my miserable after effects of a bad birth experience? Majority of the past year I was in complete denial and thought by not mentioning it or dwelling on it, everything would go away.
But it didn’t and it only got worse around the one year anniversary of having Myles which of course, was his first birthday. I can openly talk it now, because the symptoms of my PTSD have pretty much diminished. But for the sake of not knowing how I was going to react at the party, I kept it small with only Myle’s closet friends.
For putting it together in a week, I was extremely happy with the outcome. I decided on an owl theme, since his room has a woodland theme. Knowing I probably won’t be able to pick out his birthday themes for much longer, I chose what I wanted and loved how everything turned out.Thanks to all the wonderful people we are blessed to have in our lives, Myle’s first birthday was absolutely perfect.
