Luckily, it was nice weather on Hayden’s birthday, so after all of the presents and cake, we were able to take him for a nice stroll in his new wagon before Ava’s birthday party. A big thank you to Grandpa for putting it together for Hayden so he could go for a ride. And Mom, you always find the cutest hats for Hayden:)
After Hayden’s big party with family and his nap, we went to his very first actual birthday party. I’ve mentioned this before on the blog, but Hayden and Ava Grace share the same birthday, but she’s a year older. The party started at 3:30, so the timing was perfect and Hayden had a blast at The Little Gym playing on the equipment and watching the other kids. It certainly added to the excitement of his big day and to say the least, he slept very well that night.
One of our outings while everyone was visiting was Marbles Children’s Museum in downtown Raleigh.
Before Hayden’s actual birthday, we had a party during the week for him with all of his little buddies. Because there were a lot of kids here, the party started at our regular playgroup time of Tuesday at 10:00 – we moms are all about working around the afternoon nap. It was a lot of fun and there were toddlers everywhere.
Cole was nice enough to actually pose for me in his party hat.
Hayden had a lot of fun opening his presents from everyone.
This afternoon it was finally nice enough to get out of the house and have some fun. We first went to our neighbors for a visit and Hayden got to open their birthday present – which was so nice of them to remember. We have the greatest neighbors. Denise and I were talking about how he’s really starting to look like a little boy now instead of a baby. He’s grown up so fast…sniff…sniff;). After our nice visit, we headed over to the playground and met some of Hayden’s buddies, which was great. He was really funny today and was having a blast running around the playground and playing in the dirt. Now, as a mom, I’m happy for my kids to get dirty – that’s what being a kid is all about. As long as he’s not eating the mulch and dirt at this point, I’m happy. He was really giving me a workout today, too. Apparently, he wasn’t liking his hat, because he kept taking it off, and I immediately kept putting it on, which is why he has it on in some of the pics and off in others.
