It's been a tough first year. Between the emergency stomach surgery at three weeks, the non-stop crying for the first six months, the emotions of the court taking him away for a month, the chronic ear infections and childhood asthma, and then that time a few weeks ago when he swallowed a tiny lava rock and we had to call 911...let's just say that we are ready to celebrate a very important milestone.
Homeboy is a survivor. He made it. We made it. Let's have a party in the park!
So, as you can tell from the invitation and the photos below, we had quite a bit to celebrate and we are thankful to the friends and family members (including my parents coming up from San Diego and my Aunt Dana, who was in town from Texas) who attended.
Here is the man of the hour. Unfortunately, this wasn't his most photogenic day because he got suncreen in one of his eyes and it was kind of red and goopy. And, in an unfortunate wardrobe choice, he was shirtless the whole time and that isn't his best look for obvious reasons!
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| And here is the quite tasty cake that our friend Sidney baked. My mom also made some homemade lemon bars (from her own lemon tree) and those were great, too! |
We've made it a tradition to have pinatas at all our kids' first birthday parties. This year I stuffed it with trail mix, organic gummy fruit treats, and apple sauce "crushers." The parents seemed relieved, but I must admit it's the first time I've ever seen that many kids neglect to pick up everything that came out. Oh well...
Unfortunately, we managed not to take photos of any family members, but we did get some shots of friends who turned out. Here is our friend Shafiq and his dapper son, Zak.
And our friends Allard and Richard, who we first met in our foster-to-adopt class about four years ago.
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We also have lots of photos from Charlie's bday party we have to give you!
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