Da Real McCoys: Masons FIRST First Birthday Party

Ok so we kind of had 2 birthday parties for Mason. We barely wanted to have ONE for him, and we ended up having two. But I can explain! See, my mom flew out the week before Mason's birthday and stayed with us for 2 weeks. However, my dad couldn't make it until a few days before Memorial Day weekend, so we decided to have the "official" party then. It would have upset him so much to miss it. But...we couldn't exactly let Mason's real birthday come & go and not even have a cake!

So on Mason's real birthday (May 23) we had Gigi, Opa, BG, Grace, Addison & Uncle Todd over for dinner & ice cream cake...but first up, presents!

Sorry for some of the photo quality...no one knows how to use my camera!

After about 15 minutes of attention Mason was over it!!

So, we moved on to dinner, Mason's favorite time of day!

After dinner it was finally time for cake! This is the only video we have of the "happy birthday" song - apparently Opa left the video camera on for 45 minutes sitting on the couch, and by the time he grabbed it again we'd already finished singing, and I had a lot of editing to do :)

So like I said, since the "real" party wasn't for another week, this was just a little gathering. So instead of getting a special cake, I just had BG pick up a Carvel ice cream cake. Mason was loving it!

In one of the videos you hear me say "I'm going to come over here and take a picture from this angle" and everyone laugh. This is why:

Anyways, Mason was having a field day with his ice cream cake...

Until suddenly after about 5 minutes, he grabbed his head and started screaming. At first we thought he was just over it, but then we realized he was actually in pain. It took us about 30 seconds to realize what the problem was - ice cream headache!! That's right...he was shoveling ice cream in his mouth so fast, he got brain freeze. It never even crossed our minds that would happen...parents of the year, right there!