Birthday Fun with Mommy

We are up in San Jose to celebrate Mommy's milestone birthday! A fun bbq at the park by Evelyn + Derek's house this afternoon - the boys running themselves ragged at the amazing park. Ahhh - good times :)

If only we'd had video - Garrett and Cam were hysterical together. Cam tries to keep up with Garrett (who is 5 months older and 7 lbs heavier) and they both seem to want the attention of each other's parents :) Garret is part monkey; he climbs up the little rock climbing wall near the slide with ease. Just hoping Cam doesn't pick up on that, lol.

Sarah, Charles, Grant and James joined us too - so much fun! Sarah had her camera and got this cute shot of Cam - goodness only knows what he was looking at with such wonderment and confusion. Probably Garrett climbing up the rope gym - luckily Cam didn't try that! We had a blast with everyone (my friend Deb joined us too) and are really looking forward to the big birthday treat - Kevin and I are going to Sent Sovi in Saratoga for dinner. Just the two of us.

Sit down for this part, folks. You'd think it was the "going to dinner alone" part, but you'd be wrong.

Mike and Sherry (this was MIKE'S idea) are going to babysit Cam at their house tonight. Not sure if Hell has frozen over or if we should buy a *lot* of lottery tickets tonight!! :) Mike is our chauffer for the evening so we don't need to worry about imbiding too much wine (and also to escape the house in case Cam won't sleep). We're all staying over at Mike and Sherry's (doggies included) for the night and will go home in the morning.

Dinner with just the two of us. Wow. The last time that happened, I was about 10,000 months pregnant with Cam....oh, about 20 months ago :)

We can't wait! More details later.

ps
dinner was amazing, and even better, Cam slept the *entire* time we were gone. Apparently 6 neighbours on Mike and Sherry's street, plus Evelyn, were on call in case Cam got to be too much. We're glad to have averted any trouble and might have to try the babysitting thing again sometime. Thank you so much Kevin, Auntie Sherry and Uncle Mike!!!!!!!! You all made it an amazing, wonderful, perfect birthday!!!

Taking time to smell the flowers

Grammie and Grampie sent some gorgeous flowers to celebrate a milestone birthday today, so Cam has seen mommy and daddy smelling them. He tries to smell them, but ends up blowing on them like they are too hot to eat :)

Happy Birthday to Cam-a-lam-a-ding-dong!!

As unbelievable as it sounds, Cam turned one today :) His walking is more and more confident; it won't be long before crawling is a thing of the past. No real "speech" yet, but lots of sounds. We suspect after the tubes go in that will change.

His little personality has totally emerged; he's just as tenacious as mommy and daddy but much more lovable. What a ride its been! Now the countdown to two starts :)

First birthday festivities :)

Cam got his first taste of sugar (organic, at least) on his birthday cupcakes (recipe here) at his party today :) The cupcake - eh, not so nuts about it, but the frosting and especially the marshmellow eyes were a BIG hit.

Cam's first birthday was Elmo-themed and a lot of fun, even though it was 107° outside! (does Mother Nature know that its September and almost fall??). Our fantastic neighbours Katherine, Jason and Ryan loaned us their fun sprinkler toy and all the kids got to play in the water - our only mistake was not doing the water AFTER the birthday cake :)

We all had a great time and are so grateful so many friends and family could be there, from near and far. Thank you for joining us to celebrate Cam's first birthday! We figure he'll come down from the sugar high just in time for his actual birthday on Wednesday :)

Happy Birthday, Daddy!

Daddy turned 40 today :)

At his request there was no party and it was a low-key family day. On Saturday we went to a pool party/chili cook-off at our neighbour's, Ray and Letica's, and they, along with our next door neighbour's Jason and Katherine, conspired to get Kevin a surprise birthday cake. After a rousing course of "Happy Birthday" (which Cam totally and utterly adored) from the rowdy crowd, we took home a giant piece of carrot cake, since Cam was getting tired.

Daddy was also thrilled with his "surprise" - a work area w/all the fixin's for the garage: workbench, wall cabinets, huge floor cabinet and tool case. Now he just needs a project to work on!!!