Happy Birthday Ashton!!

How did he go from this... ... to this SO fast???

Ashton scored for his birthday. David & I keep saying we're going to rewrap everything and give it to him for Christmas. Okay, we won't but it's fun to say.

David's family came down down to open presents and eat cake with us. Ashton got his very first football from his Poppy Jake. It's soft so he can palm it and squish it right into his mouth. One of the coolest/most thoughtful gifts was from David's little sister "Aunt Boo". She made him a book of his life so far full of his favorite foods and things he likes to do. He loved it and flipped the pages again and again and suprisingly didn't put it in his mouth for the first 10 minutes. I'm going to tuck it away for another year and read it to him when he can fully appreciate how cool it is.

And because Ashton is really only known as "the Bug" at our house we decided he needed a bug cake. So we made him a caterpillar.

He was LOVING life. He kept stuffing frosting into his mouth with a look on his face like "I don't know what I did to deserve this but please don't stop."

He was chugging the water as fast as he could only so he could fit more in his mouth.

Our new tradition: A friend of mine had a great idea to have her kids paint on a small canvas every year on their birthday. When they accumulate they will act as a border on a wall and we'll all see how he has grown through his little artwork!

It took him a few tries to learn that the paint was NOT frosting. Poor kiddo cried until I washed out his whole mouth and then was happy to continue dipping his fingers in the paint.

I didn't think he would really get the concept of keeping it on the paper but he actually didn't get messy at all. He just kept grabbing new colors over and over and rubbing his hand around in the same spot. So this year's art has a VERY brown theme.

Happy Birthday Ashbug we LOVE you little man!!
We're off to Midway tomorrow. And we'll be doing the famous mall ultrasound to find out if Ashton's going to have a little brother or sister...so stay tuned.