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Birthday #2

Alex invited his friends over for a playgroup birthday party a few weeks ago.

We incorporated Alex's favorite thing in the world into the theme.

While his friends played, Alex shoveled Cheerios into his mouth. As seen in the pictures below, he had his hand in the snack trap almost the entire duration of the party.

Here, Alex surveys the room for the Cheerios he has briefly misplaced.

Do you have my Cheerios, Wyatt?

Alex put on a big smile during the Happy Birthday song ...

... but soon resumed chasing his friends in search of the lost cereal.

At least David and J.B. enjoyed the festivities!

Rockin' out

Alex had a wild Saturday night. Here he is jamming to his new favorite band, Monkey Fuzz.

Birthday boys

This past week, Alex and his Dad turned 1 and 31, respectively.

Team Johnson celebrated in full force.

We decided to make Alex's cake into a shape he would recognize.

At first he was confused about why this ball prompted a bunch of out-of-tune singing.

But he soon warmed up to all the attention.

While he liked looking at the large, icing-covered ball, he wanted nothing to do with eating it. We threw the entire thing out.

Oh well. Makes for nice pictures!

Waiting to tear into the gifts.

Tearing into the gifts.

ELMO!

Alex, showing Daddy how it's done.

How does this thing work?

Now the fun part ... playing with the gifts!

Bubble machine

Wagon

Elmo

Bye bye, babyhood! I'm ONE now!