365 days

Happy Birthday Baby-Boy!
We Love You!

One year ago, today, I started blogging about Richie's (extra-uterine) life. Yes! Master Richie turned one year of age today! And, just like the first day of his life, it snowed. Well, really, just flurried. Which is all it did the day he was born.

The original plan was to have a little party today with his play-group friends. However, earlier in the week they were predicting up to a half foot of snow today. Moreover, I was in the hospital overnight last night which meant there was a chance that I would not be allowed to go home if my relief was not able to make it in to work. So we decided to postpone the birthday party until next Friday. We'll have pap-Nat and Honey in town too, so they can babysit while we get the house ready. (This will be the first they've heard of that plan!) Besides of rescheduling due to the potential weather, of note, the city actually pretreated the roads THIS time. And, as Murphy's law would dictate, it did not snow to any significant amount.

In any case, we had a nice little birthday as a little family unit. We had homemade cupcakes, opened presents, and then went to play at the Baltimore Science Museum for a few hours. I took a TON of movies today. (About 4 gig worth of movies and pictures.) I'm put some pictures up now, but movies will have to wait...Daddy is sleepy! (Only had 3 hours of sleep last night and a couple hours worth of napping.)

Here are his birthday presents and cards! We tried to get him to open the presents (which we thought he'd do right away since he love to rip paper) but he just didn't get it. Well, until the last present! He opened that one almost completely by himself!


We were getting ready for Cupcakes. He really did not like the hat too much. I seem to recall feeling the same about them when I was young.


Check out how long his hair is! I keep begging ML not to cut it....I LOVE IT!


One of the presents we got him was a giant Woot monkey! And, really, we got it because I wanted to put the cape on Richie! He is, unfortunately, terrified of the actual monkey especially when it makes its monkey noises....he crys and crys and runs behind the nearest parent. But, he looks GREAT in the cape! (If you don't know what woot is, go to www.woot.com)


That's the cape-less monkey in the background. I think it is Super-Richie Kryptonite.


Richie because SO hungry today that he resorted to trying to SUCK the dry formula from the sleeve.


Moment later, all was right with the World.


Here we are at the science museum in our favorite playroom. Richie's got his favorite orange ball!






Just so show that he's not smiling ALL of the time.


These were actually take a few days ago. Just too cute to pass up.




Okay, I had time for one movie! Richie LOVE to play with the computer they have set up in the infant's room. (No big surprise there.) Mommy was playing hide-and-seek behind the monitor. Richie was absolutely cracking up! Just so you know, that's him jumping up and down. I'm not bouncing him.


That last one went up so quickly, here's another.
This is his actual homemade birthday cup-cake! Later, I'll show you where he spits it out. ;-)