We had Paddy's first birthday party about two days before his actual birthday party. Of course, it was Star Wars themed, complete with his Yoda costume. Even Pat and I donned our Star Wars shirts and our friends Peter came as a storm trooper and Kate as a jedi. I made a sweet Death Star cake (well, I made two. Made the first one the night before and woke up the morning of the party and it had literally fallen apart. Did I mention this was my first time baking... ever?) So the day of the party, I made another one. I thought it looked like the Death Star, everyone else may have thought it looked like a grey blob. Whatevs, it was awesome anyways! It was complete with a Darth Vader holding a candle/lightsaber. Everyone else had cupcakes that had lightsaber cake toppings on them.
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| The nerdiest family in town |
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| Death Star-ish cake! |
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| Patman! |
All in all, it was a great party! All the O'Cs and O'Ds (with exception of JP) were there. He got some pretty sweet presents including a custom made batman cape that said "Patman" on the back of it from my sister. Friggen sweet present considering Katie didn't even know I had planned on dressing Paddy up as batman for Halloween and calling him Patman! (As dad would say, "we must be psycho or something!") So I won't get into what happened after the kiddies left and Paddy went to bed. Let's just say we were hungover for about 3 days after the party.
Paddy got two teeth at about 8 months old. Then nothing for a couple of months till he got FIVE at once. Now he wont. stop. biting. me. And only me. I feel like I'm literally afraid of him sometimes when he gets in his biting moods. He's given me bruises because he bites so hard! I will be very very VERY happy when this phase is over with. Jerk.
