Benjamin's 1st birthday!

We celebrated Benjamin's first birthday a few days early.  It was wonderful to be surrounded by friends and family!  Søren's entire family was there as well as his other Godparents Jette and Carl with their 3 girls.  Guests arrived for an afternoon snack at 3:30 which included cookies, rolls and fruit.  Before dinner, the kids were just running around playing and having a good time.  Benjamin opened his presents and he got a lot of new toys to play with, as well as a backback and a walking bike.

For dinner we had tortillas with different fillings.  It is usually one of Benjamin's favorite meals, but he seemed really tired that day, and was quite fussy for most of the meal.  After dinner it was time for birthday cake and icecream.  Benjamin was not overly impressed that day about his first chocolate cake...although a few days later he loved it!  

On his real birthday we had a slower morning where Benjamin opened his presents from us and Silas and we could just hang out together. He woke up at 5am, so we felt we had lots of time with him on his birthday even though we had to work from 10-5pm.  At 9, Mommy took him up to daycare and brought some watermelon "cake" to share with the others.  It was a big hit, and I enjoyed spending a little more time with him. 

It seemed like Silas enjoyed Benjamin's birthday as well.  He sung Benjamin a song, helped him open up his presents and we had birthday cake again for dessert.  It was sweet watching the big brother treat his little brother like he was special.

Birthday party at daycare

Watermelon "cake"