Happy Birthday!

Two days ago.  The little baby is now one year old! Craziness.  J.R. seemed to be extra pleasant the whole day.  His b-day gift to himself was to get some extra rest...he decided to take two, 2 1/2 hour naps!  It was a pretty good gift for his mamma as well.  We started the celebration off by eating dinner at Pizza Pie Cafe with Jeff's sister, Katie, and her family.  Yummy!

After dinner, Brandon, Michael, Spencer and Ashley came over for cupcakes and presents.  A funny thing...so Brandon and Michael got there before Spencer and Ashley, so we were all just chilling.  Brandon was lying on the floor, J.R. was by the couch and then J.R. started walking toward the kitchen.  Brandon made a loud noise of astonishment because somehow he and michael hadn't heard that J.R. was walking yet.  Poor J.R. was super startled by the noise and started crying.  Oh sweet boy.  I actually loved it because then I got to cuddle with the boy to comfort him.  Another little gift for me!

Time for cupcakes. I was so excited for the whole ordeal.  J.R. would have nothing to do with it.  Never a smile.  Never any interest in the sweet treat.  We put the cupcake on his tray, he stared at it for a while, and then just flipped it right over, icing down, with a look of disgust on his face and didn't touch it ever again. This made his dad the happiest man on earth. 

As the festivities were wrapping up, Spencer went to pick up J.R. to say his goodbyes.  Spencer made some noise (not even that loud) while doing this and J.R. found himself startled again.  The tears came right away.  But this time, he just burrowed his little head right into Spencer and wouldn't look up. It seemed like it was a few minutes that he was just sobbing in this same position.  It was funny, but also very sweet to see! 

 A few last minute b-day shots of the boy with mom and dad just before bedtime. Oh how we love this little one!