J.D.'s First Birthday

J.D. is too young to celebrate his birthday with our family's traditional breakfast in bed. Instead, we sang "Happy Birthday" to him first thing in the morning. Immediately Ali and Jair wanted to know, "Can he walk now?" and "Why isn't he talking, Mommy?" They took me literally when I said he would walk and talk "when he is one."

J.D. is not walking yet, but he can name many of his favorite things: dah is ball, cah is car, ahsah is outside, and khee is blanky. He points and says dis or dat at objects that interest him, answers toy phones with "Ah!" and yells "Da-Da!" when his favorite person in the world enters the room.

We celebrated at a Mexican restaurant, where we hope to spend many birthdays with our boy - at least until he no longer thinks a free sopapilla merits wearing a giant sombrero and hearing his name shouted to all the patrons.