Birthday Boy!

May 19 was Levi's birthday and this past weekend my family came to town to help us celebrate the occasion. I can hardly believe its been a whole year since we brought our munchkin home. Its also funny to me how when it was Rebecca's first birthday she seemed so grown up, but Levi is still a real baby in my eyes. Personlaity or perspective??? We had a circus themed cake and it took Levi a while to understand the smash cake. The pictures follow...

Grandma Maryann sent a drum and instrument set. Levi loves it, but taking pictures while he's busting a move makes for blurry photos.

 Granpa Dan and Ginger brought over a cool dump truck....and its green....made from recycled materials! I love that.

                         Party time! Piece of cake did an amazing job matching the plates I'd bought.

                                 When we began singing Bubby kept ducking his head and looked about to cry. Were we that off key or did he think we were yelling at him???

Not one for getting messy.

                                 Big sister helps out by offering a fork.

 Much better!

                                 CAT truck with toolbox from Grandma and Grandpa Kerns.....now he can practice to follow in daddy's footsteps.

Before and After

Well, we have just about gotten all of our house projects done....about time since we began all of this in January. Our own room trim still needs painted, but the rest of the rooms are completely finished! The last outstanding chore I kept putting off....a box cushion and throw pillows for my great grandmother's bench. Last week I forced myself to dive into this project, thanks to google, I found a great tutorial and it was only a four hour project. Yea!!! Here are the before and after picutres. I posted a while back a few shots, but the before and after give a better idea of how drastically we changed the feel of the room. Have to run and finish cleaning and prepping to celebrate Levi's first birthday this weekend!

Walking with his walker in the driveway....feeling proud.

Levi's "feed me NOW!" face....we see this whenever we put him in his high chair with no food in sight.

Wishing Chair

Nashville Library and Wishing Chair productions put on regular puppet shows in the children's Theater at the Library. We had the privilege of seeing The Stonecutter during our trip to Nashville. I took some video, but later found this one on Youtube, that is the full show. Its bunraku and the singing and naration are the Professor and Mary Mary from storyime. Very talented folks. Enjoy!

http://youtu.be/E0lnxwFMmeI