One

We have passed another Summer Solstice. Ahh . . . I love summer. Most importantly, we got to mark the longest day of the year by celebrating LB's first birthday. I think the highlight of the day was turning her carseat around so she can face forward. She is much happier this way. In fact, she has made it clear twice now that she wanted to go for a drive.

She has become quite the communicator with very few words. In fact, mostly she points and grunts. In this case: crawl over to my shoes, point and grunt; I put them on and it is arms in the air so I pick her up; point at the door and grunt (we walk out the door); point to the right and grunt (we walk to the right); point at the car and grunts (I put her in the car).

I have indulged her both times because 1) I love that she is telling me what she wants and 2) sometimes I need a break from trying to keep up with her. This way she is strapped in!

We had a little birthday party for her with cupcakes decorated to look like butterflies and put her in her butterfly dress. I would post pictures, but I know from experience that it will be at least another week, if not two, before we unload the camera. In lieu of that, we stole this idea for the cupcakes and below is her birthday announcement.


Please forgive the silly limerick. I would like to say it was much better before I had to slaughter the form to get it to fit into the 30 character per line limit, but it was only slightly better. I guess the good thing about being a parent in my very late (very late) 30's as opposed to my 20's is that I no longer believe I have to be good at something to enjoy doing it.