The Best 1st Birthday cake picture ever

For our friends looking forward to first birthdays, just know that the best icing for a first birthday cake is blue - lots of blue.Our little boy looked like a smurf by the end of eating his little first birthday cake. The rest of us enjoyed the bigger cake, cream cheese frosted of course! Mama Em, Papa Papa, Mamie and "Bop" Moss all came in for the ocassion. Fran and Jason Cooper, The Bekurs, Applebys, Davis's, Hensleys, Sterlings, Cottens, Delks, Duongs, Hugheys, Campbells, Nana Lynette, Julie Stone and Little Will, Aunt Lizzy, Poppy Porter and NeeNee, all joined in the festivities. Sounds like a lot of people? It was, but Little Philip loved it!

Happy Birthday Lil Philip

Today is Philips first birthday. One year ago today we were checking into the hospital at 9:00 am only to have to wait until 7:30 pm to get to meet our son. In order to celebrate Big Philip made blueberry pancakes this morning. Then in the afternoon, Philip's friend Max, who shares today as his birthday, joined us for some free birthday ice cream at Brewster's. We really did like the ice cream. The frown is because of the goofy hat Mom made him wear.

Miss Dudley's Corn

Renie's boss and friend, Dudley, returned from a trip to the beach and had some left over shrimp and corn. Though Lil Philip didn't get any shrimp he loved the corn!

It's almost birthday time!

Little Philip turns one this Thursday and we are so excited. We have a little slip and slide party planned for Saturday at Poppy and NeeNee Porter's house and Mamie and Big George Moss, along with Mama Em and Papa Papa are coming for the festivities. Mommy ordered Little Philip's cake today, cream cheese frosting of course. It makes for a messier picture! Our twelve month check up is first thing on Friday so we hope to make it through the shots ok again this time. We may take our first step or two before our birthday. Little Philip is standing up on his own for long periods of time and trying to take that first milestone step! We'll keep you posted!

Birthday Party for Max

Little Philip attended his very first friend birthday party today. It was for his friend, Max, who shares the same birthday. Max is a little bit older - 3 hours to be exact. His daddy is an engineer and the theme of his party was construction. There were lots of fun orange cones, yellow caution tape, and tonka trucks to play with at the party. At the end, we all posed for pictures with our yellow construction hats. Philip wasn't crazy about the hat.

Happy Fourth of July!

This time last year, Big Philip and I were sitting downtown Homewood, watching the fireworks over Birmingham....and at some point timing what we hoped would be the "real thing" contractions. Alas, we had to wait just a little over a week longer. This year, we tried really hard to keep Little Philip awake for the 9:00 p.m. fireworks again but he was just so tuckered out. We had some friends over for a cookout. Philip's favorite girlfriend is Sadie Bekurs. Don't you think they are photogenic? Sometime around 7:30 p.m., those that still had it in them left for the street party downtown Homewood and to watch the fireworks. We cleaned up, put "little man" down to bed, and smiled at the thought of our happy little family, thanking God for our peace and safety in the good ole USA.

I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream!

We went our for some pizza with the Porters and stopped by SoHo Sweets for some home made ice cream. Little Philip was quite fond of the Heath Bar ice cream.