BIRTHDAY!

We celebrated Eli's birthday with a family party at our home. Eli had a great time and made out like a bandit because his Aunts, Uncles and grandparents love him dearly! :)

I made the Thomas the Train cake. Isn't it great? Just kidding! A good friend named Wegman's did it and they did a great job!

Last year, Eli couldn't really open gifts, or did understand that opening them is what you do. But this year, he went crazy!

The piano was a hit. He plays it with so much passion!

The microphone that came with it very fun for Eli and his cousin Nathan. They were spitting out beats and singing and having a great time. Eli's newest song goes like this: "Please, thank you, please, thank you, magic, magic, magic". Yes, he will be a songwriter one day....those lyrics are just fantastic! :)

Eli did blow out a few of his candles. He is very good at blowing his nose, so blowing candles out I thought would be a cinch for him. :)

Eli loves his new train table! We each have a favorite train. His is blue and mine is red. When we play, he gives me my favorite red train and he retrieves his favorite blue train and we play and play!

Later that night, Eli had his first piece of pizza!!!!!!! We always offer him whatever we are eating and he always refuses. So on this night, we had the pizza boxes within his reach, not really on purpose. So we watch in shock as he opens one of the boxes, reaches in and takes a piece. Then he just stated to bite into it. He took a good 5 or 6 bites and liked it!

For a little dude that has only eaten chicken nuggets for dinner every night for months, this picky eater has tried and liked pizza! Yes, it is not the best food in the world for him, but like I said, at least it expands his repertoire of dinner food. And it also proves once again that he has to try things himself or else he will refuse anything we try to give to him. A kid after his Dad's own heart! :)