Dawson's First

Dawson boy turned 1, oh yes he did!  We have been so excited about his birthday!  I just love, love, love first birthdays.  Every one of my boys 'firsts' have been so much fun!  Corey helped pick out a smash cake for me to make and we decided on Cookie Monster for Dawson.  Cookie has been one of his favorites from very early on so we thought it'd be fun and it turned out really cute.  When it came time for the big 'reveal', Dawson was excitedly eyeing and grabbing for the cake, which was a couple of feet away.  After singing to him(which he loved),  Beckett helped him blow out his candle, and we let him at it.  And waited.  And waited. We waited for him to attack that cake as only a one year old can, but he just didn't want to eat that Cookie Monster cake.  He did want to eat Cookie's cookies, but that was it.  So after grabbing the cookies and eating them he just sort of looked at the cake, then us with sort of a now what do I do with this look?  I tried and tried to get our sweet buddy to eat that yummy chocolate cake (we always do chocolate...call it a Reitz baby rite of passage) with the best ever creamy frosting (it really is so good, not like the normal sugary stuff), but he just wasn't interested. We started thinking that maybe playing with Cookie Monster is okay, but eating him was not.  Oops.  My bad, buddy!

After accepting defeat in the cake department and getting our reasonably clean faced baby down from his chair, we all watched him open and play with his new presents.  He opened some fun blocks, a shake and go car (he loves those things...except that he tries to shake every car he plays with now), and a new copy of his favorite book, The Very Lonely Firefly (he ripped the old one in half, oops).  It was a fun evening with our family.  We had a great time celebrating our most favorite little man.  Dawson, we love you more than ever and are so grateful you're a part of our family.  Happy 1st birthday buddy!  Your smiles make every day brighter.

P.S.  The next evening we gave him some leftover cake (exactly the same stuff, it just didn't resemble Cookie Monster in any way) and he LOVED  it.  The Cookie theory may be correct after all!