How time flies

So, yesterday was my son's first birthday. Nothing like a child's birthday to help you reflect. I realized how much has happened in the past year. DD has become quite her own littel person. She's terribly independent and bossy to boot. But she's cute as the dickens and gets away with (almost) everything. DS has gone from, well, being in my belly, to walking all over it! It's just amazing to watch them change and grow.

Since both kid's birthdays are this month and they're still quite young, we are having a combined party in two weeks. So, bearing that, yesterday's birthday celebration was pretty low key. We sang to him first thing in the morning. And then it was just like any other day. We did go out to dinner at Friendly's - and boy was that an experience! When we were seated, apparently we were seated in "no man's zone" - we had no waitress. After about 15 minutes of no service at all (and multiple people arriving after us getting their meals already), we caught someone and asked if they could find us a waitress. That's when we found out we had none. No worries, they took care of us - we had a great waiter and the manager gave us any appetizer we wanted for free. Good deal. Our drinks come and DD spills my ice (cold) water all over the table and my lap. Good time! DS smears his macaroni and cheese EVERYWHERE. (Did I mention he discovered his belly button yesterday?) DS enjoyed his ice cream and whipped cream (meaning, he got it everywhere, too) So, basically, we left a war zone behind when we left. But we also left a nice tip. In all, it was a nice birthday - what do you expect for a one-year-old? :-)

I'm sure the big party in two weeks will be quite different (meaning there will be multiple kids leaving a war zone behind!)

Did I mention we are having new floors put down on the first floor of the house? Yeah, so we're packing (again - didn't we just do this 18 months ago?) And we've decided to move the play room from the dining room to the bonus room above the garage. Never a dull day here!