The First and Second of Four Birthday Parties!

Lukie is a lucky guy. He has all these people who want to celebrate his first birthday with him! That's the thing about living a long way from home and the people you love and who love you...you have to celebrate everything 3-4 times to get everybody in on the fun!

We first celebrated in Kentucky with our friends from grad school with some breakfast birthday cake on Sunday. We established that Lukas prefers frosting over actual cake, and at least in the morning, he's not into using his hands. He just licked the frosting off the cake...

He had fun the whole weekend, too.

We came home on Sunday and had a nice, relaxed afternoon, and then my friends Suzi and Jamie came over for for dinner and cupcakes from Little Cake in Kingsport, TN.

Lukie had a Dreamsicle cupcake with orange icing...again, he kind of went for the icing and not the cake. He got some books and a Kermit puppet from Suzi and Jamie (they already gave us an Animal puppet, so we're working on a full set...can you tell we like the Muppets in this house??).

He didn't quite know what to do with the cupcake at first...

So Suzy shoved some icing in his mouth...and things took off from there...

There was frosting everywhere. On the high chair. In his hair. In Pete's beard...

What a lucky guy. We'll have another birthday party with my family at the reunion in Illinois on Saturday, and another later next with Pete's family. Can't wait!!