The day of his actual birthday, Jed had to go to the pediatrician for his next round of vaccines and a blood test for anemia (which he doesn't have, yay!). It was a hard day. Here is a photo of us at 3:41 pm, exactly one year, to the minute, from when he was born.
The poor little guy had an awful time, with four shots and a TB test. Then we took him to the lab to get his blood drawn. He cried so much, he was nearly hyperventilating. His face got very red.
Luckily, it didn't last forever. We took him home, put our sad little birthday boy to bed, and Vern and I commenced work on our gifts for him. I was doing a drawing of him and Vern was making an activity board for him, full of locks and light switches and buzzers. He also attached a music box that plays happy birthday.
Once we were done working on his gifts, we cleaned the house and decorated. Here is a banner I made out of card stock paper, hung from the mantel with twine.
And then it was party time! Guests were: Jed's grandparents, Lee and Carol; Jed's Aunt Natalie and her kids, his cousins Jack and Lia; Jed's Uncle Brad and Aunt Hai Minh and their kids, his cousins Leezza and Ian; Ara, Jed's godmother-to-be (in April!), and Chris, Liz and Alex, our friends from childbirth class. Unfortunately, Ara is in none of the photos because she was a sweetheart/life-saver and took all of the pictures. (She did mange to take one on her cell phone, thank God, which I have included here.) Lee helped taking pictures, too.
Here are some photos of the festivities!
Natalie, Jack and Lia
Our one-year-old!
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Jed and his godmother, Ara
Birthday head-pat from Lia
Our friends, Chris and Liz, and their son, Alex
Opening presents!
Jed loved my drawing! Here he is trying to kiss it.
Jed loved the board his daddy made him!
After the gift opening, Jed got to taste something sugary sweet for the first time! Vern had made Jed's cake the night before--white cake with key lime frosting. It was delicious!
After the cake, Jed got to play with some of his wonderful gifts. Oddly enough, despite all of the cool things he received, he and his friend, Alex, decided the paper plates were the most interesting. This is baby "play" at its best.
"Wait! What do you have?"
"I want to touch those plates."
"These are the most interesting plates in the world!"
"I'm going to keep them now."
"Not so fast, birthday boy!"
