A Year Ago Today...

... a lil' bugger was born.

Happy Birthday, Thomas Magnum!
Wednesday, August 12, 2009, you turned ONE YEAR OLD! I’m thrown back to memories of Sam’s first birthday and how similar the two look at this age.

This year we celebrated with Nana Shirley and Pop-Pop. Ron made a delicious gourmet dinner of baked lemon pepper flounder and artichokes, which was a touch more for the adults; Sam dined on chunkified rotini with meat sauce. After dinner, we took the party outside, quite literally; the evening was just starting to cool down, the sun setting. When the cake was

placed in front of Thom, it didn't take him long to WHAP his hand down into the icing, and then he began studying his hand, in complete wonder of the MUSH it had just landed in. I did put a small dollop of icing on his tongue, but he didn't DIVE IN to the cake at all. It did end up on his face and some in his mouth, but he was mostly just interested in making a holy mess. Sam, however, had a good time clawing his way into the icing and shoving what he could of it into HIS mouth. :-)
Thomas, we love you so much, Sweetheart. You are our Smilin’ Happy Boy!