A few weeks later it was Mia’s turn to celebrate. Mia anticipates her birthday for weeks and has grand expectations. She notes all the things Mckenna does and wants the same attention. Can’t blame her there. Mia told me, "I can’t wait for my birthday because you get whatever you want.” I am not sure where she came up with that concept but I am using that philosophy on my birthday. She picked "Under the Sea" for her birthday theme. For her birthday we put the birthday sheets on her bed the night before her birthday and she woke up to a bedroom filled with PINK balloons (pink at her request). That started off a “Perfect Mia Day.” We had donuts for breakfast, had Ellie over to play, watched The Little Mermaid, she painted her own nails, had hot dogs for lunch, went swimming with her cousins Abby and Eric and Grandma Jacobson, got PJ’s shes been wanting, had Mac n Cheese for dinner, enjoyed a birthday celebration with Grandma and Grandpa Mimi, Britt, Spencer and Ellie. We had Little Mermaid cupcakes and bubblegum Ice Cream. All in all that was a perfect Mia day! She told me birthdays are sad because they only last one day. She’s learning quick. Don’t we all wish our birthday could last forever….get whatever you want, everyone tells you how much they love you, eat unhealthy meals without thinking twice, etc. I agree.
10 days later we celebrated Kaden’s first birthday. We did a Chinese celebration for his birthday. We did this for a couple of reasons. First of all Matt served a Viet mission and in their culture your 1st birthday is huge. After that they don’t really celebrate birthdays. 2nd we celebrated his birthday on February 9th. (His birthday is the 10th but Matt had Bishopric.) Matt and I got engaged on February 9th and Inside the fortune cookie was "Will you marry me?" So we thought it would be fun to celebrate the memory of that too. We had Chinese food and fortune cookies dipped in white chocolate. It was a fun night. We ended with a raspberry cheesecake icecream cake (delicious). We lit the candle and Kaden put it out all right…..not with blowing but by grabbing it. He did is so fast we didn’t have time to grab him. Glad it didn’t hurt him. Kaden is such a joy right now. Granite he is is into everything but I wish I could just bottle him up and preserve this stage. I love watching him walk (wabble) and try to talk. I just want to squeeze him and kiss him all the time.
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Our joy this last month has been watching Kaden expand his mobility. He started walking and mastering the stairs. He loves to slide down them on his belly. Can't imagine where he got that from....Jacobson Cousins!! We figure now that he has his walking down.....he can help around the house (hence the pictures below). JK We were over at my parents house the other night and he came walking out of her bathroom with the garbage can. He loves garbage cans. Everything we have put in.....he empties out. Lovely!
