Happy Birthday, Mommy!

This week, we've been celebrating Mommy's birthday. We began by spending Saturday and Sunday with Mark and Anne, then had more friends over for dinner and yummy desserts on the 21st. Caden's reactions to the festivities ranged from enthusiastic--he loves the balloons and crepe paper decorating the living room--to the destructive. His destructive tendencies emerged when we were having a late lunch at the Girl and the Fig restaurant in Sonoma with Mark and Anne. Just as Mommy raised her flute of fig royale to take a sip, Caden, quick as lightning, grabbed a bread plate and smashed it into the base of the glass, leaving Mommy with a baseless glass. Wow!

Fig royale, post Caden

Together in the Sonoma plaza

On Wednesday, several lab friends joined us at our place to celebrate with taco salad, desserts, and (for the night owls) card games. Caden enjoyed playing with his friend James and trying to grab Mommy's lit birthday candles. Yikes!

Yum! Cheesecake!

Randall and James

Piano Men

Video of the week

Caden's new favorite toy is his shape sorter. He can always manage to put the red cylinder in the proper hole and is working on the blue cube. Here's a video clip of the little guy playing: