Midnight Musings

Evan had a little party at his daycare on his actual birthday, but we couldn't organize the family party until today. Kim started getting things ready for the party days in advance and decorated my parents' carport quite nicely for the party. It was mostly family and we cooked out and had a cake that my sister Courtney made and Kim and she decorated. Evan had a blast opening up presents and destroying his little mini-cake, but between his few sips of sweet tea, cake, cookies, and other goodies, he kept us up half the night with a stomach ache.

Actually, I just found out that Kim didn't take any pictures on our camera, so you'll have to go over to the granny blog to see those, but here are a few recent photos too keep you sated until then.

Evan likes to demonstrate his detachable head. He also turned one year old today, and actually not too far from the time this post went live. Kim took the day off from work to help with the party at the daycare and then she and Evan went swimming in the pool. Kim spent last night and this morning working on Evan's birthday cupcakes. I think they turned out pretty cool.


Evan's big party day started off with a trip to Burger King where he played in the play structure.


He was shown the cake for his approval.


I think he approved.

Evan went to watch his cousin David graduate from Georgia Tech this weekend. Daddy forgot to take the camera, so we're stuck with second-hand photos from Karen, David's mother. Evan was amazingly good considering the five hours we sat in the Georgia Dome hearing speeches and watching people in black robes walk across the stage (including two trips for the masters students for some reason.)

Here's Evan and me before graduation in front of the Ramblin' Wreck.

We didn't bother to take any pictures of Evan during the ceremony. Part of that was because it was a graduation, and therefore largely uninteresting visually. The other part was that Karen and her camera moved to a location where she could see David more easily. We did get a couple of pictures of the kid with the graduate on a grassy knoll near the Dome. Oh, and Evan just started walking without any assistance a couple of weeks ago. At the time of the video, he'd only walk between us, but during a trip to Brunswick where we'd left Evan with my parents, he started launching himself into open space to walk wherever he felt like. Unfortunately, his bravery outmatches his balance. Hence the skinned nose and bruised forehead.


After graduation, we headed up to 5 Seasons in Sandy Springs for lunch. I happened to mention this in passing to Karen in conversation earlier in the day and it ended up turning into where we went. I'm not complaining. It's my favorite restaurant (and brewpub), but I didn't want to tell them where to go. Luckily, everyone seemed to like their food. Evan was awesome during the five-hour ceremony, but he ran out of gas on the trip to 5 Seasons.


I don't think Evan got to eat much table food here (he did eat half of a waffle for breakfast), but he ate a couple of containers of baby food. I'm really hoping that's water Mama's giving him in the straw.

Afterward, we hung out at the restaurant and talked.


And Evan took a little walk.