Happy Birthday Miles!

Miles is a toddler now!  Not quite toddling yet, but he's getting around pretty well all the same.  He's crawling so well, can pull up on anything, cruise like a pro (even on the wall...so basically there's no limit to where he can go and what mischief he can get into), and he can stand on his own for quite a while.

We had a little birthday bash on his birthday, and we had a cake-smashingly good time!  We had gifts, cake and ice cream, and lots of birthday kisses!  We were so so happy to be able to skype the Robinson's during gifts and cake.  We had my siblings and parents and grandparents over, and Miles got WAY too many gifts!  Sadly, we got pictures before he ripped them all open, but none after...  He got blocks and Duplos and animal magnets and graham crackers and a PillowPet bear...  But here's the cutie himself:

He also loved getting the ecard from Grandma and Grandpa Bird!  He LOVES doggies so it was the perfect one:

Back to the party...  After the gifts we had food!  Now, I had a crazy mom moment earlier that day and made Miles a healthy cake, which I made into muffins that I frosted with cream cheese frosting.  I tasted it and it was completely disgusting!  However, Miles gobbled them up!  Everyone else had brownies.  We also made YoNanas (one of those machines that grind up frozen bananas and spits it out like ice cream), so we had healthy "ice cream" also!  Miles loved the YoNanas and we did peanut butter flavored and strawberry flavored.  I'm so so excited that Miles can have peanut butter - whoo hoo!  But on to the pictures:

 In short, it was messy but it was fun!  I apologize again that we only got pictures of Miles...I was running around doing stuff so I didn't realize I wasn't taking very good pictures.  After cake and ice cream, we got Miles in the bath to get him off to bed cause he was so tired.  Then he smashed his finger in a cupboard so we had to do first aid, then a balloon popped (any nurses reading this, we only had balloons up on the fan in the family room - not within baby reach!) and traumatized him.  So, bedtime was a little more tense than usual, but we got settled and he slept well dreaming of playing with all his new toys in the morning  :)

We also celebrated Valentine's Day, which was a treat.  I gave Andrew a passport to twelve different countries over the next year, so we can go on a date each month.  So we celebrated Valentine's day in Paris, France, with fondue and french cafe music and we watched "Julie and Julia."  It was really nice  :)  Next month, Dublin!

Hope everyone reading this is well and I will post again soon!