Yes We Did

Happy 1st Birthday Xander!

I'm not sure if it's more of Xander's celebration or ours, this first of many birthdays.  A year ago today we delivered Xander into the world.  In the last 12 months we've had ups and downs, adventures and misadventures. We've watched Xander grow up, and perhaps we've grown up a little too.  Certainly we've grown into a family, and although I didn't know it was possible, our love for our son, and each other, has grown too. What a year it has been! 

How to celebrate?  While Xander would have been perfectly happy with his dinner of strawberries and oranges and asparagus and salmon, we really felt the need to get the classic photo of our child eating his first cake.  This has been a blog with words describing our feelings, our family and our life, but it has also been a journey in photos- we needed a photo!  Okay, we needed 6!

And for those of you who like to see how generations change and stay the same, here's a picture of Erin enjoying *her* first cake!