Ashlee Simpson’s Birthday Boy Bronx

She’s had quite a year as she’s settled into marriage and motherhood, and Ashlee Simpson says she’s loved being a mom.

Spotted out shopping with Pete Wentz and their son Bronx Mowgli at Dragon Books in Los Angeles earleir today (November 20), the “Pieces of Me” songstress confessed that having a little one “is the most fantastic experience I have ever been through,” adding that the one-year-old (who celebrates his birthday today) makes her “laugh and smile every day.”