As you can read from the front of Quincy’s site – he is now over 1 year old. August 16th made it official. His actual party, however, was on Saturday, August 12th. It was a well-attended affair: uncle Ryan, aunt Debbie & Isaac and Nathan, Gramma Dorcas, and Grammie and Grampa Rock. It was a good number since we live in the apartment right now. Oh yeah, poor Ashby was relelgated to being leashed up outside for several hours while there was food around and gifts to be opened.
We had a lot of food for everyone to eat and then it was on to opening presents. It was a good thing his cousins were here – Quincy didn’t care about opening anything. He had more fun walking laps in the apartment. Isaac was one of the official new toy testers. Now, Quincy really likes his new toys and plays with them a lot. He is getting to be an expert tower builder out of blocks, but he likes to demolish daddy’s towers more. After presents, it was time for the cake.
We made a banana cake with cream cheese frosting for dessert. It was a two layer cake, and rather than let Quincy dive into the entire thing, we cut him a generous sized piece. He didn’t really know what to do with it. He got some frosting on his fingers and rubbed his hands together, but didn’t really eat much of it. He did eat some cake when it was fed to him, but otherwise didn’t eat it himself. That’s okay – more for us and our guests!
Later that afternoon, we took Quincy (and Ashby) over to a local park so that Quincy could swing and walk around. It was his first time really getting some mileage in the green stuff, and he really walked all over the place. We lost track of time and just barely got him home in time to get ready for bed!
All-in-all, it was a very fun day for everyone. We didn’t do much special for him on his actual birthday, but we did save him a piece of cake – which we ate ’cause he didn’t want it. It was dry, but with enough milk it went down smooth. 🙂
Thank you to all who sent cards and/or presents for the little guy. We appreciate all of you who think about us and he.
In case you already didn’t know, I have posted 27 pictures from his party under, where else, the photos section. You can get there via the photos page or use this link if you like.