Meghan Trainor & Daryl Sabara Share the Most Wholesome Birthday Tributes for Son Riley & We Can't Get Over the Heart-Melting Photos

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If you missed the adorable birthday tributes Meghan Trainor and Daryl Sabara posted for their son Riley, prepare yourself for the most precious content. Are you ready? Because we weren’t and the happy tears started flowing. (Don’t judge!)

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On Feb. 8, our favorite little redheaded toddler turned three and his celebrity parents were not going to miss an opportunity to post about their cutie pie.

“Riley. My little buddy. My best friend. My light,” Sabara began the caption on his heart-melting collection of photos and videos. “Thank you for choosing me to be your dad.
You make life better and brighter everyday.”

The opening shot is a priceless photo of Sabara, Trainor, Riley, and his 7-month-old little brother Barry. It only got cuter from there. With videos of Riley excited to go see his mom in a commercial, one of him telling the singer how much he loves her, throwback photos of Sabara with baby Riley, and a video of Riley chasing his dad down the sidewalk.

“And most importantly,” the Spy Kids actor concluded, “thank you to @meghantrainor for being the best mom each and every second to our THREE YEAR OLD 🥹🥹🥹”

Mama’s Post

Meghan Trainor at The 2023 Streamy Awards held at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel on August 27, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.
Meghan Trainor at The 2023 Streamy Awards held at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel on August 27, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk for Penske Media)

Not to be outdone, Trainor also posted a touching carousel filled with family portraits, shots of Riley and Barry bonding, and the most adorable photo of Riley with his iconic blue glasses and sweet face smooshed up against a magnifying glass. It’s safe to say we won’t get over these photos any time soon. (Read: Ever.)

“RILEY, YOU ARE SO LOVED!” the “Mother” singer captioned her post. “YOU ARE THE SWEETEST, FUNNIEST, MOST DELICIOUS LITTLE HUMAN. YOU HAVE MY WHOLE HEART ♥️ MAMA LOVES YOU TO THE MOON AND BACK! 🚀”

“happy birthday to my son,” Chris Olsen commented. (IYKYK.)

“Seriously, Riley is the cutest kid alive. He’s literally perfect,” another follower said, and we can’t argue with that.

Birthday Plans

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 25: Daryl Sabara and Meghan Trainor are seen on April 25, 2023 in New York, New York. (Photo by MEGA/GC Images)
NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 25: Daryl Sabara and Meghan Trainor are seen on April 25, 2023 in New York, New York. (Photo by MEGA/GC Images)

Last month, Trainor revealed her refreshingly normal plans for Riley’s birthday. And we use the word “plans” loosely. Because who has the time or energy? Not the Dear Future Mama author!

“Every time I want to try to plan something, I’m always like, ‘Eh, germs and people, and I don’t want to … He’s not going to remember this one yet,’” Trainor told PEOPLE.

What he will remember and has been very particular about is the cake. And who can blame him? The cake is the star of the show! Well, aside from the birthday boy.

“He really wants it to be a car,” Trainor said. “And it has to be specific. It has to be our white car that we have. So I am literally hiring this amazing cake creator to make our Rivian car into a cake.”

“I was like, ‘What about Lightning McQueen car?’ And he was like, ‘No, white car.'”

Oh boy! The Trainor-Sabara fam is about to have an opinionated “three-nager” on their hands. But with adorable requests like that and the sweetest little face, how could you say no? One Rivian car cake coming right up!

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