Brooks's Birthday Party

Brooks's Birthday Party was a zoo theme. Our family loves our trips to the Riverbanks Zoo and is a big fan of animals, so we thought it was appropriate. We had fun!

Mom, Dad, and the Birthday Boy

The whole fam. Davis and Maggie called Brooks "the birthday boy" for about 5 days! It was awesome.

The cake, but B got a lion cupcake. Love some Little People animals!  :)

Friends made zoo animal masks! We made B a tiger, but he kept taking it off. Maggie made an elephant. Can you tell she's smiling? 

I'm ready, Mom!

I love everyone singing to me!

I get to eat this whole cupcake?

Who's smile is bigger? Mags or Aunt Elle?

Dad busted out our slip n slide one last time post party with our cousins. This hill is perfect for slip n sliding

Brooks is One!

Our Summer was awesome! It would be described as fun filled and exciting, but not necessarily relaxing. Relaxing is not really part of your vocabulary when you have 3 active kiddos under the age of 5. :) One day, I hope to catch you up on our visits to the beach, the lake, times with grandparents, and general adventures at home that we had this summer. However, that is too daunting to me at the moment, so I am going to start with Brooks turning one.

I hate that he is changing into this adorable little guy with a ton of personality and so many of you haven't seen a pict of him in 6 mos. Sorry! Here are some shots we had someone do for us. Yes, he is walking, and climbing, on everything! One of his favorites is to stand up on the chairs that Davis and Maggie use for craft time in the play room. He claps his hands and chooses to do it when I am trying to prep dinner and wishing he would play with his blocks for a few minutes--on the ground. Wishful thinking! :) He is all boy, smiles a ton, gives awesome hugs, has goose eggs on his forehead often (but fortunately has his dad's pain tolerance), thinks he is such a big kid when mom sees him coloring and playing with friends at preschool, will play with Davis and Maggie as long as they will let him (which is usually a good amount of time), keeps us on top of sweeping and vacuuming or he will do it :), loves singing and being silly, loves playing with Davis's Cars, and loves his giraffe nite nite. The list could go on. It still amazes me how your heart grows each time you have another child and you have just as much love for them as you do for your other children. It's pretty cool. God knows what he's doing, I guess!

Brooks is one! Could eat him up!

He's gotten 6 teeth (already had 2) since school started in August!