BEEBAO 1ST BIRTHDAY PARTY!!!

Last Saturday, March 1st, 2008, we had so much fun at your 1ST BIRTHDAY PARTY. So many of our new friends in Portland and your little friends came to celebrate with us. It was a BLAST!!! It was such a great time. Although you had missed your second nap you were still as happy as can be. We are so lucky to be surrounded by such great friends and neighbors. We will never forget this day. And you received so many cool presents as well. New toys (we can never have enough of that!), new clothes, some cool books, a great drawing from Isabella, a really cool pot of flowers from Jonah, and so much laughter and good times!

BorisPop: what a great day for you BeeBao! mommy made a zillon cupcakes for you and your friends, and we picked up 6 pizzas from Laurelwood, and of course, had baby snacks, soda, juiceboxes (and PBR juice boxes for all your friends parents).
we filled the front room with helium balloons, and decorated with Backyardigans decorations. the balloons were a real hit with you and your little friends, while the older kids migrated to your future bedroom where they played xbox360 on the giant TV.
your closest friends all came (except for a sick Lennon........:(..........), as well as your newer neighborhood friends, and everybody was so cool, and fun to spend the day with. you had fun playing with all your friends, and you all got along so well, running and crawling all over the place. your day ended when Heidi tapped on my shoulder, and said "i think mommy needs your help"......and i looked over and you had thrown up your feast all over your birthday outfit. it was about that time, when the last of your guests said, "ok, time to go!". momma then put you down for bed, while i gathered up all of your balloons, and tied them together, wrote a note to you for your bday, and taped it to the balloon strings. i then took them outside, and let them go off into the night sky. i could see them enough to watch them drift off in the moonlight for about 15 minutes. for some reason, it felt like some ancient tribal ritual as i watched them drift off into the black of the night time sky.....like i had just offered up the memories of your first year of your life to the universe to enjoy as much as i did......or maybe daddy just had too many of those "adult juice boxes"..........
a great way to spend celebrating the first year of your life, my little Bee. its only been a year, but it feels like you have been with us a lifetime.........maybe, you were always there with us.....just waiting to spring into this world, and now our reward is here. love you, bigger than bigtime. Daddy.

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