The last few days of the first year are here! We are trying to prep for a simple birthday celebration, but there is a lot that I wanted to do for their big #1 milestone. The time flies!

The cousins still had playtime in the water this morning. They both got out with prunes for fingers and toes, they would stay in the bath all day I think!

Trevor loves to lie back, float and relax

Gramma has to use every trick she knows to get Trevor’s fingernails trimmed!

Caleb was all ready to jump in and play in the tub with Brendan too!

Caleb was dropping his truck in the water and then saving it, Brendan is just fascinated with his hair!

Caleb just wants to play outside!

He just has to settle for running cars on the wood floor

One of the big big things on my birthday to-do list was portraits. I have taken a ton of pictures of the boys but they have all been snapshots. Brendan is not able to go to any kind of real portrait studio, so we did our best today to put together the cheesiest, silliest, most DIY home portrait setup in order to try to get some 1st birthday photos.

I am embarrassed to say how many shots the camera fired, but in the end I got some real keepers (even if they are far from pro quality!) Brendan was the easiest baby ever, he was just so cooperative and fun and photogenic. The other boys were just more… challenging!

Here’s the best of our “studio” session!