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| Sebastian arrives to his party |
Well, here we are, it's the end of July and our sweet son is already more than 13 months old. I am only just now getting around to writing this post about him turning one, and his birthday, and how wonderful it was. I am falling behind on this blog but I do want to keep it up, as a sort of virtual memory book of Sebastian's growing up. I know he'll read this one day and wonder why it took me so long and I can only say, "son, I was too busy being in the moment with you to write about it. Now put your space suit on and get me an astronaut ice cream."
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| As a display, I made a clothesline of the clothes he wore this year that were especially dear to us. You can see how massively he grew since taking him home a year ago. |
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His birthday was so wonderful. We had so many visitors who came specifically for the occasion, it just made our hearts sing. Gabriella arrived first (she is now officially called Go-Go), followed by Christina, Aunt Maria, and Uncle Don. Then Uncle Daniel, Aunt Shannon, Isabella, Nathaniel, Gabriel, and Sophia arrived, and soon after, Grandpa Warren. We had a picnic party at a park in Glendale called Mayors' Bicentennial Park and it was perfect: we practically had the park to ourselves, and the weather was just right. I think there were around 50 guests altogether: our friends, friends of my parents, and new friends from the playgroup, all there to help us celebrate and mark what a beautiful year it has been with this new soul in the world. It was just a beautiful, perfect, stress-free day and I will always hold it in my heart, just like I do that first day he arrived with his arms outstretched and his dark eyes solemnly regarding his new world.
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| The cakes, OH THE CAKES! Sebastian had a vegan banana cake. The other two were fresh lemon and chocolate icebox from Lark Bakery. I will always remember their deliciousness. |
Here is a link to more pictures from the birthday party. Hey, by the way, were you at this party? Please send me your pictures! I didn't get to take a ton since I was busy wrangling the birthday boy, so any extra pics would be appreciated.
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| CAKEYFACE |
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| Our sweet family |
Here is a link to more pictures from the month of June 2011.
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| His triumphant first walk in the park! |
Here is a link to pictures from July 2011. You will see that he is walking. He started fully walking on June 29th. He went from just trying out a few steps at a time for a month to just, on that day, starting and never stopping. It was such a Sound My Barbaric Yawp Over The Rooftops Of The World moment. He is SO thrilled about it. He just walks around with a huge silly grin on his face and his arms up in a vampire pose that is hilarious. He is talking up a STORM and already has about 35 words in his vocabulary. He is also getting EIGHT TEETH at the same time, which is obviously not fun, but he's dealing with it much better than I think I would.
Since I started trying to write this post (that I need to just finish and put up or it will go on and on), we've had a lovely visit from his grandparents (Grandpa and Gramsie). He had a wonderful week with them and already miss them very much. There is more, there is so much more, and one day I will write it all down. For now, there's this. Baby steps.
