Jeremias' 1st Birthday!

I know I am way over due for a blog update. I thought I would share a very special event with everyone! Jeremias turned 1! I can't believe that my baby boy is growing up so fast. It seems like just last month that I was huge, pregnant and on bed rest. Just a little update on Jeremias- I no longer have a baby. He is a toddler and has been the size of a toddler for a while now. He isn't walking yet,which is fine with me! He loves climbing on everything. Just the other day I found him stuck on top of his kid table in his room crying because he couldn't get down. Crazy little boy! He is the master cruiser and a fast crawler. He loves to laugh and have a crowd to watch him perform. :) Ben and I are extreemly lucky to have this special spirit in our family. We wouldn't be complete without him. I can't imagine life anymore without my sweet Jeremias!
For his birthday we celebrated it with a lot of family! We had a party at our rent house with a total of 36 people. We cooked hotdogs, beans, macaroni, had cips and then most of all, cake and ice cream! We would have actually had around 65 people there but most of bens family was unable to attend. Bens mom made his cake- It was amazing! I found the recipe for it online on a baby website and it was super good. It tasted like banana bread with a caramal filling with cream frosting! yummy! The theme for his party was jungle animals since thats the painting I did for him when he was born. So the cake had palm trees, clouds, flowers and animals on it.
Jeremias was a bit overwhelmed at first with all the noise and people but he quickly warmed up and had a good time. First we had everyone eat dinner at about 530 and then we sang happy birthday. Jeremias had a shocked look on his face while everyone was singing for him. He didn't understand... He tried to touch the flame of the candle while we were singing and luckily i caught him before he touched it. Ben and I had to blow out the candle since Jeremias wouldn't do it. Then we let him eat a cupcake that mirna made and at first he didn't like it because he was dirty and sticky (I usually dont let him get dirty... my fault!) but once ben let him taste it, it was all over from there. He dug into that cupcake like there was no tomorrow! He usually doesn't get much sugar because of his teeth and I am a health nut about what he eats... So he had a major sugar rush the rest of the evening. We gave everyone cake and icecream which was amazingly good and then we opened gifts. Jeremias was so funny because he would open one gift (with my help) and fall in love with the toy and not want you to take it away to open another one. But then he would see the next one and fall in love again! it was so funny to see him so excited! He got a lot of great toys which were much needed. I was needing to buy him some big kid toys so it saved me a lot fo purchasing! After gifts many people left and just mom, dad, adam, alicia, Lyndi and justin, bens parents and jose and kamie, and bryan stayed a little longer and helped set up all of his toys for him to play. I think the guys had more fun playing then Jeremias did at first. Jeremias would just giggle and giggle at everyting for the rest of the evening until we finally put him to bed. And he went to sleep fast! and slept all night long! He had partied him self out! Bryan adam, alicia, justin, and lyndi stayed over until about 11pm just visiting. It was a lot of fun! After we cleaned up ben and I crashed about as hard as Jeremias did. Jeremias just woke up so I will try to post the pictures of the party later on today!