Monday, March 7, 2011

Bryce's 1st Birthday

It's hard to believe that a year has already come and gone since Bryce was born. The time has just flown by! He started out at 4 lbs 6 ounces and now is around 22 pounds of huggable love. He is just a sweet little boy. Everyone just loves the little guy. Happy Birthday Bubba!
One of the few pictures we have of him when he was first born that he is not hooked up to al sorts of wires. Because I was under complete anesthesia when he was born, I never got to see him like this. He had really nice skin for a 32 week old baby I was told. Most born that early have skin that looks a little translucent.
A year later on his big day.
We celebrated his birthday the day before, so we could have John-David's sister Alycia and her family join us. We had dinner and then went for the famous 1st year cake smashing. Kind of an interesting tradition but Bryce sure loved it. Jackson had to get a picture with his Bubba.
He is a big cheeser when the camera is pulled out.
He wasn't so sure about this whole thing with everyone just staring at him but once he tasted the frosting, he just dug in. Jackson was having a really hard time not joining in. He stood next to the high chair waiting for whatever fell off the tray like a dog.
He finally picked the cake up and brought it to his mouth.
Ahh, the Good Life!!
He began to just play with it but he enjoyed all the reactions people
were giving him so he just laughed and tore it apart.
Mmmm...good!
"Sloth love Chunk"
After Bryce had a bath, we let the party guests have some cake.
We tried to take a picture of him next to his cake but he just wanted
to eat that so he had to view it from afar.
He opened a couple of presents.
He tried a little more of his cake on his birthday.
He enjoyed wiping that all over his head too.
Jackson insisted we save a couple of presents to open on his actual birthday. So that's what we did for our Family Home Evening activity. My favorite present was what Jackson, Jocelyn and Kelsey got him. They made him that heart card and then pooled their resources together and gave him 17 cents. They are a generous bunch.
Bryce liked tearing the paper into little bits and pieces.
Happy Birthday Bryce!

4 comments:

The Sweet Petes said...

I can't believe that Bryce is one already! Time sure does fly!!! We hope that we can get together really soon!!! Jed wants to meet you all;-)

Shonna said...

Happy Birthday little guy! It's amazing how much he has grown w/ the 2 compared pictures.

Kaicie said...

Crazy to think he was born 8 weeks early and now weighs over 20 lbs. Way to go! He looks a lot like Miss Joss Boss.

Stephers said...

I just want to pinch those cheeks!!! Give him a million kisses for me! What a cutie.