Lauren's First Birthday

Has it been a YEAR already? ...I suppose it has. A lot has happened since Lauren was born. She can walk. Well, almost. She can walk about 10 or 15 steps before crashing back to earth. She's also got a pretty good vocabulary for a one year old. She says: Daddy (my favorite, of course) Momma, Uh-oh!, Bye-bye, Hi, Banana (ok, it sounds more like nana)....and a few others. I'm so proud of her. ..she's stolen my heart.

The festivities started on Sunday, March 10th, 2002 - the true 1st birthday. We had family over for champagne brunch, opened presents, ate cake and all that other good stuff. As amazing as it seems - we didn't take a million pictures that day. I've got more on video...but ....you get the idea.

The STAR of the show!!
...complete with birthday cake smudges.

Trey wanted to play with everything Lauren opened...
. ..even if it was a PINK truck.

MORE presents?

Lauren - turn around - I'm trying to get you on video



"Daddy - can you get that booger for me?"
Yeah - it's tough being a super model.

The next week, Jacqui's "Mommy group" had a birthday party for all the kids. Most of them were born within a few weeks from each other. This was my first time to see all of them together - so that was neat for me. Also, it was cool that this party was at someone else's house - because eight one year olds can SURE make a MESS!

The Moms....

...and the Dads

Daddy helps open the gift.

Yummmy - chocolate cupcake!
(you know where this is going)

That's right - just dig right in.

Momma is pretty quick with that wet-wipe.

But not quick enough for Lauren!

MMMMMMMMMM that was GOOD.

I can walk everywhere, so long as I'm holding Daddy's finger.

Happy Birthday Lauren!