Happy 1st Birthday Thomas!
July 13, 2005
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Dear Thomas,
Well young lad, you are offically one. This morning we snapped some pics of you and Dylan while you tried to take the camera from me. Back away from the camera big guy, it was my baby before you were. We sure got some cute shots of you though, looking like “Kilroy Was Here,” albeit without the brick wall.
This evening your Gramma, Papa, Great Grandma, Uncle Gary, Uncle Joel and Auntie Mel all came over to spoil you rotten and celebrate your first year. I’d love to know where they were when my tits and tear ducts were leaking everywhere in month 2 or why they never called in month 5 and 6 when you slept for a 2 hour span before needing my mammories yet again. (KIDDING FAMILY!)
Oh wait….they came for CAKE tonight. Not just any cake though son, oh NO, we had Great Grandma make her chocolate cake from scratch and boy oh boy it was worth the wait. She outdid herself once again. I sure hope she lives alot more years so you get to hang with her some more. She is a fiesty one and I’m pretty sure you’ve inherited some of her spunk.
Papa got to hold you several times without ending up wet! Thank you for not puking peeing or excessively drooling on him. He is always the poor sap that gets soaked by you in some way. Maybe because Gramma shakes you all up and then passes you over! She also has the Spunk.
Your big brother blew out your candle so you wouldn’t burn yourself and you dug into cake with wild abandon! Daddy took some video of tonights ceremony in which you squealed with delight over your new rubber ducky Mama and 3 ducky babies…….don’t get any ideas kid, there will not be a third ducky in this household. Consider Ruffy your sister, okee dokee?
You thought the Fisher Price Little People Farm was DA BOMB. You sucked on the cow’s head as though you knew the source of milk. You got yourself up and walking for the coolest wetsuit I’ve ever seen for a baby…complete with floatation devices built in, and a large warning that says “THIS SUIT DOES NOT REPLACE ADULT SUPERVISION.” I sure am glad they wrote that on there because I thought it was free licence to let you run free at the cottage while I see if I can drink your Grandparents under the table. Damn warning labels.
You had quite the little show at dinner while you looked at everyone at the table and just laughed. Realize it’s only time of your life where you can laugh for no reason…..otherwise they have these large buildings called institutions for people who laugh for no reason……..I wonder if they have a Fisher Price Little People Institution Building. Where the nuts eat the squirrels…..
Well kid, you sure have changed your tune since you learned to walk. You are a happier little man by FAR. I thank you for taking your first steps and improving your additude. Pretty soon Mama will be handing you the Swiffer and putting you to work!
Thanks for a great year Thomas. As much as we took so long to get to know each other and learn to communicate, we have grown together and I’m so glad we’re finally figuring things out. It is a very good thing you came into this world so cute. Boy oh boy! I love you more than a fat kid love cake.Love Mama
July 14th, 2005 at 8:07 pm
Happy Birthday!! Thomas!
I’ll have a piece of cake, Thank You ever so much…!
You are in my Bookmarks now, so I’ll come back round again to see how vacation went.