Baby Carter James!   I love holding the new babies.

Ronan’s first birthday party was today.  All of our very best and most wonderful friends came.  I was so so very worried about it for NOTHING at all.  It was amazing, and I think everyone had a great time.  Short of a few birthday boy melt-downs, it couldn’t have gone better.

Here are some pictures of our Ronan’s big day.

Ronan LOVES balloons!

Sweet Farah!

Walkin’ man and his birthday balloons.

Our party guests – so many amazing people.  (The other half were in the kitchen.)

Do you see anything wrong with this picture?  Let me give you a hint… helium balloon + candle = FAIL.

Balloon popped and scared him silly.  He cried until he tasted the icing.

“Hmm.  This is pretty good actually.”

“This gets it to my mouth faster.”

WIN.

Quick bath, wardrobe change, and BACK in the party!

Hooray!  Presents!

Thank you SO much to everyone who came!  Until next year…

I have been terrible about uploading pictures lately, so here is a nice little picture post.

Ronan likes to snack while laying on his back.

This is the face he makes when I use the flash now.

Look at that sweet face!

You see this huge grin?  It’s because he has the power plug.  He tried to put it in his mouth, and I told him “NO!” firmly.

Then he looked like this:

A pout?  You ain’t seen NOTHING yet.

Have you ever seen anything so sad?  It breaks your heart.  Woah, baby.

“I want to be just like my daddy.”

I have fallen desperately behind in posting pictures.  And Videos.  But this boy is amazing.

My poor, sick boy.  Needs cuddles.