Birthday Pictures

This was my first attempt at using fondant on a cake. I messed it up pretty bad, but I suppose for my first try, it could have been worse.

LJ's personal "rubber ducky" cake

Lounging with Momma after a big day.

This will have to do...

Still haven't got the birthday party pics off the camera. This will have to do until then.

Update on life in general

Golly. I can't believe LJ's birthday is this Sunday (along w/ father's day). LJ is officially walking now. In the mornings he crawls more than he walks, but buy the end of the day he's walking more than crawling. I have pictures from his birthday party which was this past Sunday that I'll post soon. It went well, though...as well as a 1-year-old's birthday party can go I suppose.

Another shocker for me is our 10-year high school reunion is coming up in a couple weeks. I really can't believe it's been a decade since we graduated high school!!! (For those who may not know, I say "we" because Gary and I graduated together). Wow. It will be neat to see everyone again. Its so funny to think back to the "problems" I had 10 years ago...I suppose they were real problems at the time, but once you've delt with college, work, insurance, a mortgage, childbirth, child-raising, death of close friends and family memembers, and all of that "grown-up" stuff, it makes the "problems" of a decade ago seem so trivial.

Anywho, enough ramblings. I'll get some more pictures of the little man up as soon as Gary dumps them off his camera.

A year is sneaking up on me!

I can't believe it's been a year since I was waddling around 9 months pregnant, actually, let me correct that statement, it actually seems like forever ago that I was pregnant, but I'm dumbstruck that it's almost been a year since I first laid eyes on my little boy! His birthday is on Father's day this year, and his birthday party (family) is going to be this Sunday!

LJ is taking his first steps now; but I think it's going to be slow going, as he's a much more efficient crawler, and the only advantage of walking over crawling is he doesn't have to carry his toys in his mouth to get them from here to there, which really doesn't seem to be a big deal right now. He still has yet to say his first true words, right now he still speaks "LJish" and we can generally understand him (although I don't think we'd technically qualify as bilingual). He really enjoys playing with other kids, especially his cousins. Above is a picture of Jeremy, LJ and Olivea at my Mom and Dad's the other night playing on LJ's blankie (Jeremy is in my Dad's lap...grabbing LJ's diaper, Olivea and LJ are rolling on the floor).