Happy 1st Birthday!

Definitely been a week for walking records. He takes 15-20 drunken steps at a time now...if he has a goal in mind like the Christmas Tree or something else he's not supposed to get into then he walks almost like a pro.

We threw a big party with decorations, chocolate cupcakes, raspberry peach cupcakes, a couple of roasts and a lasagna Grandpa P brought. Mom's Division head, Amy, was the first to arrive right on time at 1pm. She was followed shortly by Donna and Jen, Evan Aas, Aimee, John, Nicole, Josephine, and Jeanette, Grandma and Papa B with Great-Grandma J, Grandpa P and Missy, Allison and Darius, Auntie Bekkah, Grandma and Grandpa C, and Mark Baklawski and Gail Workman showed up a bit later. Unfortunately the Richards, the Welborns, Megan, Mickey, Marc and Andy, and a few others had to cancel.

Michael was massively overstimulated today with all the people and presents. He dove straight into his new tunnel. By the time he made it to his cupcake he was so tired he didn't know what to do with it. He patted it a bit and didn't really get into destroying it.

G&PB had fun with Michael playing with the decorations which bounced up and down. Michael kept going after Great Grandma's cane

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