Birthday Weekend!

My parents and sister came for a visit this weekend to help us celebrate Asher's first birthday (today)!  It's still so hard to believe he's one now.  In  many ways he still seems so little, but it's also apparent that he's growing up.  Since last month, he's added waving hello/goodbye/night-night to his list of skills.  We go for his check-up tomorrow so I'll post some stats then.

We've had a pretty low-key weekend, just hanging out spending time together.  On Friday we played outside and did some gardening.

Saturday we had a little lunch party for Asher.  The only extra person we invited was our neighbor, Al.  Background story:  Keenan had Moshe (Hebrew for Moses) as one of his name picks for Asher.  The last few months Keenan has started calling him Moshe as a nick-name.  We soon discovered there's a game website for tweens called "Moshi Monsters."  Asher can be quite the little monster - dumping out toys everywhere and getting into things in general.  Hence, the Moshe Monster party theme!

All set up and a sample monster-which

Posing with our monster-whiches

Craft time!  Monster masks.

Present time.

Cake time!

 Asher wasn't too sure of the cake.

He preferred his thumb. 

But gave it a few more tastes.

That evening we went out to dinner to celebrate my sister's upcoming birthday.  Asher got to have his own vegan pizza which he loved.  Today we had his picture taken and did some shopping.  Now everyone's playing outside again.  It's been a gorgeous weekend in more ways than one!

Happy birthday to our blue-eyed baby boy!