The title of this entry is "don't squash your kid's imagination" as that's something I feel is very important.
Last weekend, I was carrying Eban and I saw him pick something off my shoulder and start chewing it. I crazily looked at him to see if he'd spit it out as it could have been a bug, button, or who knows what! I then frantically started saying no while shoving my finger in his mouth to sweep it. I couldn't find anything. I'm staring at him to see if he's going to start choking and then he giggled at me...of all things. He then reached up to my shoulder and grabbed "something" and pretended to pop it in his mouth and then he "chewed" it. I was not prepared at all for the new stage of "pretending." So at the first opportunity I got, I squashed his enthusiasm for pretend play. I'm a terrible mom!
Anyway, last Friday was his first birthday and we didn't really celebrate as we don't have a yard to entertain people, etc. We are still in the process of unpacking so we'll have a shindig on his one year and one month birthday! We did, however, get him a cake. (Note to those who are new parents: If you go to King Soopers and ask for a cake for a baby who's turning one, they throw in a free cake called the Dig In and Destroy Cake so you can get good pics of your kid going nuts with the frosting, etc.)
Well, Eban was very nervous at the sight of his first cake. He didn't know quite what to do. He timidly put one finger in the side of it to touch it and then he licked his finger. He proceeded to eat the rest of the cake like that. I think we had to shove his hand in the cake so he realized it was okay to go nuts, but he didn't really like that. I'm sure this characteristic will change as he gets older and he'll have no problem getting dirty. But if it doesn't, then we'll have a clean baby all the time!
I haven't had time to download all the pics from our move and his first cake, but I did download three of Eban...see below.
