Is anybody else having a hard time believing my baby boy is already a year old? How did this happen?! I absolutely love the stage he is in - we are starting to see lots of his little personality! - but part of me is very sad that he's growing up. I hate that I wished away so many of his baby days (darn you, colic!).

I have lots to update about him, like for instance, the fact that he's been walking for nearly a month! And today he went to daycare with his big sister for the first time. But I'll have to write a longer post for all of that a different time.

Since it was the first day of daycare, the kids obviously had to have coordinating outfits. :) And that meant we had to have an early morning photoshoot that the kids weren't super cooperative for!

She's licking the sidewalk "chop" off her hands.

Matt was in charge of dropping both kids off this morning and, as expected, he left Thomas in tears. Thankfully, I received this picture midday with an update saying he was doing just fine!

Right now we're playing outside while waiting for Mimi and Poppy to come over for dinner. Can you believe Thomas requested a pot roast?! Or maybe that's what Mama and Daddy wanted. :)

The real celebration will be this weekend. We've got thirty animals scheduled to come over for the afternoon. Oh, and lots of kids and their parents too. It should be a real zoo around here!

I know the writing's been sporadic around here but I hope to do a lot of catching up soon. I have 490 pictures from our beach trip to show you!

Hooray for surviving the first year with two little kids! We did it!