Emry’s first birthday was on October 22.

The birthday boy is seriously into his thumb these days.

He is seriously into his brother too.

The birthday hat has stick-on numbers from 1-5. Elan’s worn it for 3 out of his 4 birthdays. I like that it’s now an official family tradition, even if I did drop the ball on Elan wearing it last year, when he turned 4.

And of course, no first birthday would be complete without baby’s first cupcake, which he mostly enjoyed squishing into a cupcake pulp and then sucking out of his little chubby fist.