Blue-Eyed Birthday Babies

I have been fortunate enough to keep in contact with 4 of the girls I met while in the ward up in the Galleria. We have all since moved from that ward and we all don't live quite as close anymore. We do our best and usually get together about once a month for a play group. Our group is ever expanding with babies babies babies. On Monday, Marci had us all over to her house. In our group there are 3 babies turning 1 within this month. So we decided to have a joint party for all of them. Marci also invited a cute friend from her ward that had a son turning 1 too. All of the sweet babies have very blue eyes. Hence the title of this post. Sorry about all the pictures, they are all just priceless and had to be shared. When we first arrived, all the kids and babies played with toys while us girls talked. Jace is pretending to share with Addie, Marci's baby, in this picture. Doesn't she look so cute. I love her skirt.

Here is Jace, Addie, and Ashley (Stephanie's baby) all playing together. They are so fun.
Marci made them all their own little cake. Two hearts for the girls and two stars for the boys. The bubbles were for the older kids so they didn't feel left out.
We found as many portable high chairs as we could and lined them up on chairs. Mckell and Sheree were so cute to bring little gifts for all the babies.
Before we celebrated with cake, we stripped the babies down to their diapers for quick...or so we though...cleanup. We tried putting birthday hats on them and none of the babies cooperated quite like Addie. Jace was very bothered.
Jace stared at Addie the entire time. I am sure they were all confused about what was happening.

I love this picture of them staring at the candle's.
When we first put the cakes on their trays, Jace looked at it and began eating immediately. Addie gently began touching her sprinkles and very cleanly licked her fingers. William figured everything out pretty quick too. Ashely wasn't so sure about the whole thing until we got her a fork. Then she thought the experience was tasty. So two messy boys and two careful girls.
Being me, I had to try once more to put the party hat on Jace. I thought maybe if he was focused on eating he wouldn't care like he did at his party. Not so much. He started crying and tried grabbing it off his head with a hand covered in frosting.
It didn't take long for Jace to eat his cake. He was shoveling it in by the handfuls while the others were taking there time.

Here is Addie trying to pull off her sprinkles.
Big handul of cake. Notice he is getting messier by the second.

Classic frosting handprint on the head. Yes, his cake is already gone or demolished.
Jace entertaining himself while waiting for the other babies to finish.
I am sure he would have gladly helped Addie finish hers if she had offered it. Instead they both continued their staring match. Check out Marci's blog about her description of this picture. It's perfect!

All done! The older kids like Andrew and Ella (Sheree's and Marci's) kept coming up to me and telling me how messing Jace was. I don't think they could make sense of why he looked like that and the others didn't.

Time to wash it down.
Happy chocolate covered Jace. He enjoyed this experience, particularly without the hat on.

There was no other option but to put the babies in the bathtub afterwards. It was now almost 1 o'clock and Jace had yet to have a nap. He was exhausted and confused about why he was in the tub with 3 babies. I love all their frosting beards.