Carter's 1st Birthday!

Carter's new ride

Carter is 1! I can't believe that his first year is already over. Carter has changed so much this past year. No longer is he my little boy that I could hold for hours while he slept. If I tried to do that now I'm sure my arm would fall asleep after 20 minutes.

We celebrated for a whole weekend for Carter's big day. On his actual birthday Will had to work until 7pm that night so we had a birthday breakfast. We had Carter's favorite homemade blueberry pancakes. As you can see he loved them.

On Friday Carter had his 1 year check. He weighed 26.1 lbs and was 31 1/2 inches long. He is finally starting to slow down his growing.

Sunday we had a family birthday party. Both sets of grandparents came, also my brother Chris, his wife Jen and their daughter Riley. Will's sister Megan and her boyfriend Kyle were also there. Of course Carter got tons of presents. He was actually into opening the gifts and seeing what was inside. We enjoyed lots of Piezano's pizza and then the highlight of the night cupcake time. At first Carter was not sure about the prickly cupcake. Then after one taste of frosting, he dove in. He completely demolished the whole cupcake. Keeping sugar away from the kid really gave him a surprise on his birthday.

I tried to be creative with his cake. We call it the " Caterpillar cupcake".