Ayden's One!!!

I cannot believe Ayden is one year old today! It has been such a great year, and he is just so amazing. We are so lucky to have him in our lives and it is such a joy to see him grow up. (just too fast for my liking). So, for Ayden's birthday today, Bob and I both took off work and went to the aquarium. It was very special because Ayden was able to spend his birthday with my mom, Bob's mom, Bob's sister, our friend Abby and her daughter Cadence and son Jack. We had such a good time and the kids seemed to really like everything that was going on. We especially liked the shark tunnel.

When we got home, we all had dinner and Ayden played with some new birthday presents. He really loves new toys. Ayden and I made cupcakes last night, so we sang Happy Birthday and he was able to eat his first cupcake....well I guess not eat, just smash.

I also wanted to play this little game with Ayden that someone told me about for his 1st Birthday. You are supposed to put out a book, a dollar bill and a cup. Once that is all set up, you are supposed to put Ayden in front of them and see what he picks. If he picks the book, he is supposed to be smart when he grows up. If he picks the dollar bill, he is supposed to make a lot of money when he grows up. And, if he picks the cup.....he is supposed to be a drinker. I was a little nervous to see what he would pick because he just LOVES cups. So, we had Ayden face the the items and he goes right for the book. YEAH!!!! After he had the book in his hand, he dropped it, picked up the cup and took a sip. He then dropped the cup and took the money and walked away with the money. I am not sure what that is supposed to mean, but it was so funny.

Well, here are some pics of our fun day.

Here is Ayden enjoying the scenery at the Aquarium

Isn't he a cutie!

Here is Ayden and Cadence...isn't Cadence beautiful!

Here is Aunt Leah with Ayden seeing if he will pet the sharks!!! I couldn't do it.

How cute are they?

Ayden as a shark.

Here he is kissing himself through the glass. LOL

Right before we were going to sing happy birthday.

For the past month or so, we would always say to Ayden, How old are you going to be? He would stick out his ONE finger and smile. All day today, I was trying to get a picture of him doing this and had a difficult time. Here is my best shot.

Ayden's new bike that he LOVES!!

Here is Ayden's new chair (Lightning McQueen)

This is a long video, but this is us singing Happy Birthday and Ayden eating his cupcake, kind of.