Logan's First Birthday

I have a one year old. And I don't know just how the year flew like that. The last month was pretty much a blur: preparing for the cruise, then the week we were away and as soon as we came back there was 2 weeks of Logan transitioning to daycare then his 1st birthday party!

Logan's actual day of birth was Friday the 16th. Aleksy took the day off so we could celebrate Logan's birthday together as a family! We planned a whole day of Logan centred activities.

First thing in the morning, we had his present all wrapped up and in the middle of the living room floor so he could attack the present first thing. This is Logan opening his new ride on car.. bed head and all. Logan has recently discovered his love for dinky cars (he discovered at daycare!) so we also got a couplw of his first dinky cars!

After opening his presents and breakfast, we headed to the children's museum. Since its children 1 and over that pay, and it was Logan's bitthday, they let Logan in for free!

First stop was the dinosaur room where Logan mostly stared at the other little kids as they played in the sand with the toy dinosaurs. He also liked the block puzzles with a whole lot of dinosaur names that I would teach him if I knew. We'll have to stick to the basics like t-rex, pterodactyl (totally used spell check for that), and brontosaurus.

Guess what else was special about Logan's first birthday? He had his first timbit! We documented his first honey dip. This kid has a sweet tooth... I don't know where he could get that from?

Free baby!
There were actually quite a few stations that Logan could play at in the museum at his eye level. He had a great time playing with all the toys, exploring the colourful rooms and checking out what the other children were doing.

We explored for about an hour and a half then we stopped in this room so Logan could have snacks before we had to run a birthday errand (of getting his "1" balloon for the party!). We obviously had to pose for a fam selfie mid animal cracker/goldfish snack!

We had Logan's special birthday lunch bought for him the day before. I went to farm boy for him so he could have specialty deli meat. Logan loves his lunch meat and cheese so it was all about the gourmet for his birthday! He loved his lunch.

I also made a cake for the Logster on the Thursday before his birthday (he had a full day at daycare that day... preparing for when I start work full-time!) and he loved it! We sang happy birthday and he had his very own piece in the afternoon... before his nap... he refused to nap this day! He loved the cake and the icing... I was worried he wouldn't like the cake because there was no sugar and it was whole wheat flour but it was surprisingly tasty!

Logan's First Birthday Party: Saturday September 17th

Logan had his big first birthday party on Saturday with all his family and friends! This was the line of Logan's very little baby friends... Raeleigh 3 months, Lincoln 6 months, Mason 6 months, and William 3 weeks!

 The theme was nautical. Logan's baby life theme has been nautical (baby shower, his room, his clothes, and his adventures on the sailboat and cruise ship!) so we continued the tradition.

And our friend Tabi made this awesome nautical cake. And macaroons. My friend is a little ridiculous with her amazing cakes... I mean all this time and thought for Mr. 1 year old!? Logan's such a spoiled lucky boy! Even the map on this cake was edible. Chocolate with cookies and cream icing for the top and vanilla with strawberry for the bottom!

<--- and personalized as you can see!

After everyone had some lunch (we did sandwich and salad style lunch!), we got on with the cake. We sang happy birthday to the birthday boy around 2 and gave him the top part for the awesome cake, which he poked at but the fondant protected its beautfulness (until we had to cut it!)!

You can kind of see the "1" candle in the picture.

Logan's first reaction to the cake was a little gag... I think the sweetness of the icing threw him off (when I made his for the Friday I made it with whipping cream and cream cheese and it wasn't as sugary as a normal icing!). But then once he got going, he ate more!

After cake was present time! Logan had such a great attention span for the whole birthday party including presents. It helped that he napped for an hour and a half, waking up 45 minutes before the party!

This tissue paper loving boy got spoiled rotten by all his friends and family. He is one loved little boy. And Mommy and Daddy are happy to keep up the tradition of never buying clothes or toys for him (seriously... we have bought such minimal things for him!).

Winter hat... check.

After presents, Logan had to go around to all his friends and family and show his love. He is such a huggy boy! He loves it... snuggles with his bud Chase.

Such a long chaotic day with 40 extra people in the house, and Logan was his awesome self the whole time just rolling with the day.

What the end of a 1st year old birthday party looks like.

Surprisingly enough, nautical decorations are super difficult to find at the party store/dollarama/wal mart. There was nothing! So I had to improvise and I cut out the sailboat and anchor shapes for the loot bags and also for the banners we hung! We borrowed Logan's sailboats from his room for decor too.

All my baby's monthly pictures from 1 month onward. Crazy to compare the first to the last pciture... he is so different!

Now I have a 1 year old... in daycare full-time and I am a full-time working Mama! Life changes so quickly.