First Birthday

One Day Old:

One Year Old:

We celebrated Scott's first birthday over the course of about a week. On April 21 he got an early present from his grandparents because they were going to be out of town. Then we had a swimming party at Cardel Place with his Calgary cousins on his actual birthday, and a follow-up family party on the 27th with cake, presents and more cousins.

Here is the courageous Captain Nemo with his dear mother at the pool. Unfortunately, the Captain came down with some sort of stomach flu the week of his birthday and he wasn't feeling top-notch. He spent most of the time at the pool clinging to our arms and grimacing. He looked pretty cute in his surfing gear, though. His cousins had a fine time, but we decided to send them home instead of eating cake because Scott was still getting over his illness.


We had a quiet evening opening presents together with his Aunt K, the high school drama queen (literally). One of his presents was this sweet dump truck. His dad was probably more excited than him.

On Sunday (the 27th) the cousins came back and stayed for cake and presents. They didn't even wear surgical masks or anything. Here's a shot of cousin A taking Scott on a test drive through the book that he received from her and her brother H.

Since Scott really hasn't ever tasted sugar, we tried to find a cake that was only 90% glucose / fructose / sucrose. We ended up getting a carrot cake, because it trades fatty cream cheese for some of the sugar and fits in nicely with Scott's great fascination with rabbits.

He likes to point out the window at the neighbourhood bunnies that bounce past. He also likes to point at carrot cakes.

And he likes to eat carrot cakes. Actually, he likes to eat pretty much everything -- except some meats. We have to conceal his cooked chicken among his rice and other foods to fool him into eating it. Otherwise, he just dumps it on the floor with anything else that he's not interested in. Despite some exceptions, he's quite a ravenous eater and probably loves nothing in this world more than a good banana.


I had to throw this picture in even though it's kind of a sad thing to remember about your birthday. Scott's cousin H is 6 months older and much quicker and more coordinated than Scott. As a result, Scott usually comes up short in the competition to lay hold on the best toys. In this instance H had just received these two tractors as party gifts for coming to celebrate Scott's birthday. Scott had tried to muscle in on H's territory, but he quickly scooted away with the tractors.

Well, it's Scott's party and he'll cry if he wants to...