I made sure there were a lot of Balloons for Luke’s 1st Birthday party…they are one of his favorite things! 
Since our VBS at church was panda themed this year, I decided to go with the flow and made his birthday party panda themed as well. It worked out great! There were lots of cupcakes left over and panda posters so I used them all up and we had a cupcake LICKING contest (on our brand new deck!) and we played Pin the Nose on the Panda!
Here are the kids all lined up and ready to lick their panda cupcakes!
It was quite funny and to no surprise Samantha won!
My dad helped Luke play too!
Here’s Evan peeking at the competition…more licking, less looking!
So besides the panda cupcakes the kids licked in their contest, I made a couple of panda cakes…one for him and one for the rest of us! 
He was super curious and went in for the smash right away…as in trying to smash cake on those in his reach. It was pretty funny because all of the kids were in really close to him when we were singing and then as soon as he had icing on his hands he tried to “get” all of the kids with his messy hands. Sign of a 3rd child?
Unfortunately our deck is not quite completed and there is a rim of dirt on the outside of the deck. Evan introduced Luke (and his friend Tyce) to dirt on his birthday. Apparently he generalized the cupcake licking contest and decided dirt was for licking as well….bleh.
If you look close you can see his 2 new teeth (one on top one on bottom…same side)
Oh yeah and he got a teddy bear that is like 5 times his size! lol
Can you tell he likes it? He attacks it every single day.
He had a fun birthday with his friends AND TWO sets of grandparents! (that is sure rare!!)
Happy 1st Birthday Luke!
