Huddo's 1st Birthday....part 1

On Hudson's 1st Birthday and I really couldn't get over how excited I was. I knew naturally I would be excited for my son in reaching this milestone, but I was sooooo excited for him to open his pressies from Troy and I.

Leading up to his birthday there had been the great present debate. How much do we spend? What type of things does he need? What is he interested in currently? and all the time being consious of the fact we don't have much space in our 2 bedroom apartment. With this being our only child's first birthday we wanted it to be special. The main thing with Hudson is that he's all about activities and thanks to The Wonder Weeks we used this to look at what toys he had and what stimulating things to get for his mental development. Also as much as we like for his toys to be things he enjoys it's great to be able to play things with him. So we got him a box of 150 megablocks (on special for $18), a pack of 5 wooden toddler puzzles ($23), 2 new pair of shoes from Our Shoes ($40) and a kiddy gold set ($10). He LOVED all of his new pressies and had so much fun making a big mess in the living room with all the blocks and wrapping paper.

After we played with the pressies it was time for lunch and with a banana and chocolate muffin with a candle in it Troy and I sang Happy Birthday to our son. To be honest as much as this was Hudson's 1st birthday he's no stranger to this song as every Saturday for the past year (he was born on a Saturday) I would sing him 'Happy __ week birthday'. I probably should stop that now so I don't confuse the poor fella. 

Hudson's birthday was on Sunday 28th August however, the night before was his Auntie Jenny's 40th birthday party so we made his little party for the following weekend since a big portion of the family live on the Gold Coast and with us being on the Sunshine Coast and promoting responsible driving we didn't want to encourage our family to come up and visit when they would've had a big night the night before! :)