my tiny baby boy just turned 1.
1 year old.
it seems like yesterday that he was in my belly.
We had two parties. one in Chicago and one in Pittsburgh. this was a difficult way to celebrate. i don’t know if i’ll do it again. each party was wonderful. we had cupcakes and cocktails at one and a regular cake at the other to satisfy my mother. Nate was mostly content if a little clingy, but should i really expect him to be working the room yet?
the drive was long on the way there, as Nate was a bit fussy, but he was fantastic on the way home. this trip, we stayed at the house of a friend who was out of town. it worked wonderfully. we moved everything out of the way and just set it up to work for us. i owe them BIG thanks. this also meant that we had a home base for people to come see us rather than schlepping all of our stuff everywhere.
as is usually true, i didn’t get to spend enough time with everyone i wanted to see, but it’s getting easier to arrange people.
my final thought is that people are very generous to 1 year-olds, our friends are very good to us, and i am so happy to have this bubbly little boy.
