Cathan's 1st Birthday Part II

We had a party later that night with a few family members.Ryan and the birthday boy blowing mommy kisses!

This is the aftermath of the gifts. Cathan got so many gifts, he is so spoiled!
Thank you everyone!

He had no idea what was going on with the lights turned out and people singing so I think he got scared here.

He was hesitant at first to eat the cake because he was just not used to feeding himself but it looks like he got the hang of it.

Yep, he sure eats like his daddy.

Cathan enjoyed playing with everyone who came. Thanks , Grandma Waite, Mike, Chris, Alex, Sharlee, Rachelle, Grandma and Grandpa Quilter, Chad, and Margie for coming out!

This is the aftermath of the cake, most of the cake is still intact but the frosting seemed to be his goal!
We had a great day. Maybe because it is my first baby but I was so emotional on his birthday thinking about how fast the time has gone since he was born. I am so blessed to have such a wonderful child who makes my life so special. I know he will grow up someday but I know that I will always remember him as the adorable little boy in these photos.

Cathan's 1st Birthday Part I

For Cathan's Birthday we decided to do something fun before his party later in the day. We went to the Discovery Gateway in Salt Lake and loved it! Here is a play by play of our day there.

Ryan and Cathan just as we got to the Discovery Gateway. Cathan already looks annoyed with having to take pictures.
Cathan and mommy playing with the water feature.

They had costumes there so we dressed Cathan up like a turtle...he hated it.
Then Cathan picked and sorted vegetables (yes he is keeping that carrot in his jacket hood for later)Cathan fed his newly picked carrots to the horse

We must have spent a good half hour (an eternity when talking about Cathan and Ryan's attention span)playing with these blocks. Ryan even made a fort for Cathan to sit in.
This was Ryan's favorite part of the day. He stole all of these (mind is blanking on what they are called right now) from anyone who wanted to play with them.
Wouldn't you be more willing to watch the news if it was read by this little cutie?Cathan loved sitting in the back of this Life Flight Helicopter.

We didn't want to fight to get in the front seats so we resorted to placing Cathan on the windshield so he could see in.

Clearly it is lunchtime.

But the tears turned to smiles as soon as daddy put him up higher than everyone else.

We were walking out of Discovery Gateway and I saw some kids that looked very familiar. Turns out that Ryan's relatives had flown down from Idaho that morning to go to Discovery Gateway! This is the only picture I had of all of them. We played with them at Discovery Gateway for a little while and then headed over to Clark Planetarium.

A little bit of food and some bouncy balls makes for one happy birthday boy.

He even ventured to Mars for some exploring.

And then jotted over to the moon for an examination of some moon rocks and left behind popcorn.

We had such a fun day at Discovery Gateway. We will definitely go again this summer when Cathan's cousins come to visit because I know they will LOVE it almost as much as Cathan did!

PLAY TIME!

This video is a little lengthy but adorable!

Car Show

In January we decided to go to the car show in Salt Lake. We love looking at the old cars and dream about someday owning a shelby mustang. Cathan very much enjoyed the cars and climbing all over them.

The future Waite-mobile! I never thought I'd be a minivan mom but this van is perfect!

Looks like the boys agree with my choice of minivan.

Cathan looks like he is more of a truck driving guy!

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