Unbelievable... but a whole month has passed since Silas' first birthday. We had a ton of friends and family join us to celebrate the day. Thank you! Auntie Lauren even came up from Calgary and kept me sane as we prepared chicken wings and salads and veggies and fruit and cupcakes for the party. Not so easy as we were also managing a Silas who literally decided to ditch crawling in favour of walking full-time the morning of his party, but who also somehow grew just tall enough overnight to no longer be able to pass under the kitchen island where we working without clipping hishead. While we offered Silas a special cupcake at the party, this birthday boy was definitely more content to munch on a chicken wing or a corn on the cob.
The next weekend the Stimpson's dropped in for a visit on their way to Victoria and, on June 7, helped Josh and I celebrate our fifth wedding anniversary. We hired Grandad Brian (Josh's dad) to "babysit" Silas and Zoey (we had him arrive after the kids were asleep) and hit up the town. A big thanks to Grandad as I was thrilled for a date sans kids.
The following weekend we met up with the Stimpson's again, on the ferry, to travel over to Vancouver Island to attend James and Karen's beautiful wedding. We were so happy to go out to celebrate their marriage. Silas travelled just wonderfully. (A far easier trip than last summer when we brought 3 month old Silas to Josh's Aunt Dusty's 40th birthday in Duncan. We spent much of that weekend in the car listening to baby lullaby CD's over and over trying to keep his crying at bay.) This trip we stayed with Dean and Karen, Josh's aunt and uncle, played with Jonah, their 4 month old son, and cruised around the island hanging with our awesome Alberta crowd of friends and enjoying all the wedding festivities. Silas tolerated it all well, was completely mesmerized by a clarinet player at the wedding reception and delighted in tasting the salty ocean rocks at the beach. When we did arrive back in Vernon, he was however elated to be home and bounded from room to room all smiles as if to say "Oh, I recognize this couch and this bed and this kitchen and... look, it's my truck and my crib too!"
We've spent the last two weekends at weddings as well and extend our congratulations to Katy and Toby and Jeff and Cheryl. May your lives and marriages be blessed with joy. Enjoy this summer as newlyweds. Like us, I'm sure you're looking forward to relaxing at the beach and in the lake soon- but hmmm, maybe the beach with a 13 month old toddler who loves to eat sand and has no fear of deep water won't be as chill as I think... Happy Summer's to everyone anyway!
