We celebrated James' first birthday the weekend before his actual birthday b/c this was the only weekend Gabe had off this month. Noah had picked out a "construction" theme which was very exciting for them both. As you can see, James enjoyed the cake, but he was a bit tentative at first and only ate it after he had destroyed it:) He received lots of great presents and big brother Noah helped, but was not as upset about this not being his party as I had thought. Each time I would ask him about James' party in the week leading up to it he would say, "James' party, not my party". We gave James some of the musical instruments from our music class and in the bottom pics he is demonstrating his abilities as a one man band.