Celebrating Our Son's First Birthday

Today was our son's first birthday.
It was pretty nice and laid back. I didn't work today, since we decided a couple of years ago that we really want birthdays to mean something in this family and so we try as hard as we can to keep those days free so we can spend them together as a family.
It was one of the first nice days which we have had here in Craiova and we wanted to all take a walk together, but A was completely exhausted today and we were not able to work in a walk around his nap schedule.

L and I made a birthday cake for A this morning (she loves cooking with me).
Once it was cooked, I cut and rearranged pieces of it so that it looked like a car and Raluca detailed it with coconut. Then I cut an orange in half and put each of the two halves on the bottom as wheels.
A is completely crazy about cars, so we knew that he would like that.

The funny thing was that when we put him in front of his big car-shaped chocolate cake he didn't touch it. He is usually crazy about sweets and L dove right into her cake on her first birthday, but A didn't seem to know what to do with it. Even when we gave him a bite of the cake he was more interested in the orange tires than the chocolate.
That boy knows what's really healthy for him . . .
He actually loves fruit. He can eat an entire orange all by himself and will then beg for more.

Since A loves cars, his mamaie bought his a toy truck with a flatbed which carries four little cars. He loved it, or course, but so did his big sister, who didn't want to share his toy with him. She started to build a garage for the cars with her Duplo blocks and then got really angry with A when he dared to come and take his cars to play with.

All in all it was a nice peaceful day, although it would have been much nicer had we not all been so exhausted (and of course we missed having A's American uncles and grandparents here).