Marcus' birthday party

It was a small gathering at our house which was really nice for us and Marcus. :)

Waiting for Marcus to open his presents

Grammy and Auntie Heather playing with him and his new drum set from Auntie Heather, Uncle Al and Cousin Alexa

That is the Elmo cake that I made for Marcus (my mom helped out...thanks mom...she used to make special themed cakes for us on our birthdays so I wanted to continue that tradition with my son). I am very proud of it except Geronimo got to it before we did. He got a good chunk out of it. I was pretty sad but we were able to salvage it. Luckily my brother caught Geronimo or he might have gotten away with the entire thing. That would have been bad...at least it makes for a good story! :)
Oh I made cupcakes too...

Marcus enjoying the goods...

I think he liked it!!

Marcus' first birthday

Happy Birthday Marcus!!!!!

I cannot believe it has already been a year. This past week has been extremely emotional for me. I think Curtis explained it the best way possible...it's like a REALLY late post-pardum for me. It's the end of the baby year and on to the toddler years. It is definitely bitter sweet. It's just been hard for me to say goodbye to the baby chapter even though I am soo happy to say hello to Marcus' toddler years. And he sure is toddling around...the 18th was the first day he let go of my hand and started walking completely on his own. Needless to say that brought tears to my eyes. Life moves so fast, as we all know. All of this just reminds me to stay in the moment and savor it!!

Here we are getting ready to go to the Children's museum in SLO...We're diggin the fohawk
Marcus, Nolan (Marcus' buddy and neighbor) and I in the firetruck at the museum...
Daddy and Marcus playing with the train set at the museum...

There's my big boy (sniff sniff tear tear)... Daddy playing with Markie and Nolan...

Mommy and Marcus snoozing on the way home (I didn't think we played THAT hard).... Fohawk Marcus and Papa opening b-day presents...
Opening one of the presents Curtis and I bought him...a xylophone (our little musician LOVES all instruments...next is a real drum set...that's definitely a musicians son)...
He's not to sure about it...My wonderful fam!!!
He sure is enjoying feeding Grammy some :)...