May 16, 2006
baby alex turns one!
last thursday my baby nephew turned one year old. on saturday we had a joint birthday/mother's day celebration. my dad and ayee flew out for it, and we went out to eat with my mom and great aunt and uncle. during lunch we gave alex one of the soft, pink lotus-paste-filled buns (they are supposed to look like peaches) to play with. he examined it and squeezed it and not once tried to put it in his mouth.
afterward my mom, dad, ayee, sister, brother-in-law, nephew and i went back to my mom's for presents and birthday cake. alex's favorite present was a big box of clothes that my dad and ayee bought him. apparently his favorite thing in the world is to toss clothes behind him. my brother-in-law said that alex does this sometimes while my brother-in-law is trying to fold laundry. my sister said this probably explains why she found a pair of his underwear under the couch in the living room.
afterward we lit a big "1" candle on alex's first ice cream cake and put him in the high chair. by this time the birthday boy was pretty wiped out and sat there resignedly while we sang happy birthday to him. when we finished, alex had his first bite of vanilla ice cream. below is alex's patented you-just-put-something-i-don't-recognize-into-my-mouth expression. he perked up after a couple bites when he realized he actually likes it.
HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY, ALEX!!!!
SO CUTE. it totally made my morning (and i'm leaving right now for an exam). thanks for posting. w/r/t the bun, it's so pretty and pink he probably thought it was a toy. aren't those things "for promoting fertility?"
Posted by: cb at May 16, 2006 08:09 AMyeah, he is just ridiculously cute. and always happy (except at the very end of a very long birthday celebration. then he is just tired). i don't know much about the fertility buns, but yeah, we didn't really give it to him to eat, we just thought he would like playing with it. which, he did. :) SO CUTE.
Posted by: rrc at May 17, 2006 11:53 PM