Happy Birthday!

I can hardly believe it is already a week ago that it was Tobias' birthday, let alone that Tobias is now one year old! I know I am a little behind with posting pictures, especially after such a big event, but, ah well, always the same excuse, busy busy busy. Also I wanted to wait for all the pictures to be in my posession because Tobias' birthday was registered by multiple cameras...

I actually have been kind of busy... We had Lisa's mother over for a visit. She came over especially for Tobias' first birthday. I enjoyed that so much and we are so happy and grateful that she did that just for us... well, actually just for Tobias I guess... or maybe a little for herself too, because I am pretty sure she enjoyed it too... Anyway, I had to work so when I came home at night I did not exactly think about posting pictures but more about enjoying the scarce time that we have with Lisa's mom. On top of that I was sick for two days last week, and of all days to be sick, one of them was Tobias' birthday. By the time we celebrated I was feeling a little better though (thanks to a rather generous dose of advil...).

We invited a close group of friends over, some of whom cancelled. Then we invited my parents and my brother and of course Lisa's mom was there. Cake time was set for 18:00. We had a slight delay but just after six we lit the candle, popped open a bottle of champaign (for adults only :-)) and proposed a toast to Tobias, the now one year old Tobias. Tobias loves the word "Proost" combined with the clinking of glasses so he was looking around and laughing. Initially he seemed to be a little scared of the cake so he started sort of poking it. After a little bit of that I guess he took a liking to the cake because he put his pretty smile on and started to go at it with both hands! We cut him a piece and he ate it, or better yet, shoved it in his face and spilling it all over himself and the floor, with both hands. He had a lot of fun doing that and so did his audience... As you can see in this picture he had yet to touch the cake. Quite the family picture huh?