Celebrating One.

We celebrated Carter's birthday with just the three of us. We figured it would be way more work than needed to have a big party and would our friends really want to come to a year olds party? And since we have no family here in Texas, we celebrated his birthday with just us. Which actually turned out to be better. Carter was a little grumpy that night and I'm pretty sure he would not have been much fun to be around to anyone other than us. Next year we'll have a party and invite friends over, this year, with Mike working so much, this just worked out better.

Here are a few pictures from the night. Thanks McDonald's and Dilles for sending Carter birthday presents and for calling to sing happy birthday on speaker phone. He loves the book and the polo is adorable. Thank you Dilles for the farm puzzle, tool kit and soccer outfit.

We gave Carter a hammer for his birthday that makes noise when you hit things. (Not that great of an idea after all. Today he banged everything. I'm a little afraid we might end up with a whole in the wall.)

Mike got Carter a soccer ball. He doesn't get the concept of kicking, so he carries it around all day, tries to chew on it and has to fight to keep the dogs and dad away from it.

We also got him two pairs of sunglasses. What inspired me to get him sunglasses you might ask. I was watching the Today show this week and they had a segment on the importance of wearing sunglasses for your eyes and the damage the sun can do. They mentioned children need to wear them as well, and I thought why not? We'll try young and maybe, just maybe, he'll think they're neat. I think I like the blue ones better. What do you think?