Steven, Sammy and Amaya turn one (ONE!) on Tuesday and we had their birthday party today with a small group of family and close friends. Honestly, I don’t even know what to say. It was wonderful, I don’t know where the last year went, and I feel like the luckiest mom in the world.

We made these birthday boards for each baby and had them on display for the party. They’re a great snapshot of who Steven, Sammy and Amaya are today. (You can click on the photos to make them larger and read all about these wonder babies.)

We had special birthday shirts with our names on them!

Daddy and Steven

Daddy and Sammy

Sammy and Nana Ellen

Steven and Aunt Annette

Steven with Anna, who’s been with us overnight on weekends since April and helped us survive this past year. She was also my intrepid flying partner form Detroit to NY for our Thanksgiving trip.

Steven and Aunt Ouize

Sammy and Aunt Ouize

Grandma Sunshine and Amaya

Grandma Sunshine with both of her granddaughters.

Savta, Amaya and Mommy

Savta, Amaya, Mommy and Nana

Papa Gene and Amaya Jean

Steven and Charlie with Nana and Aunt Sara

Amaya and Charlie singing with Nana and Aunt Sara

Anna, Amaya and Gene chatting it up

Megan and Sammy

Amaya is excited to turn one!

High fives for Grandma Sunshine!

Playtime in the baby jail…

Opening gifts!

Sammy is going to be a drummer like his big cousin Abe

Jason is hoping to be a drummer like cousin Abe, too.

Family

Time for cake!

With Nana & Papa

Grandma Sunshine

GREAT grandmother, Savta Kerry

Aunt Sara and cousin Charlie

Aunt Ouize and cousins Nancy and Abe

Megan

 

Singing Happy Birthday!

Ready to dig in!

Nancy is also a January 20th birthday girl so she got in on the fun, too! Happy 17th birthday, Nancy!

It was a wonderful day surrounded by people we love. Grandpa Ron, Grandma Betsy, Uncle Todd, Uncle David, cousin Chase, Uncle Austin, Aunt Dena and cousin Lavinia weren’t physically with us but were certainly there in spirit and in our hearts. Plus Poppy Steven, always.

Here are some more photos from the weekend visits and our week. It was wonderful to have so much family here to spend time with Steven, Sammy and Amaya. Visiting were Nana, Papa, Savta, Aunt Sara, cousin Charlie, Aunt Ouize, and cousins Nance and Abe.

This weekend, we transitioned from zip up onesies to two piece BIG KID pajamas.

Bedtime

During the week, Steven, Sammy and Amaya had lots of fun.

I can’t get over how similar the boys look in the 2nd picture here.

Amaya found a standing perch

One big playroom and everyone finds the same corner to play.

Steven!

This week, Steven pulled himself to stand. Go Bobo!!

He’s not doing it all the time but he’s definitely catching on.

We helped Steven stand here but, no doubt, they’re planning their escape.

Sammy!

Like father, like son.

Amaya!

To wrap it up for the week, Amaya has started caring for her brothers. Earlier in the week, she found all four suckies outside of the cribs. These have animals attached and 2 are Stevens, 2 are Amaya’s. Amaya picked them all up and brought Steven his two. In the photos below, Sammy was sleeping late and Amaya went over to check on him. She reached through the bars and started patting his shoulder. It was precious. <3