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06/04/2008: "Birthday-palooza! Also, walking!"

Hi! I know, I know! I'm a total flake! I promised vids, I promised pix and I Did Not Deliver. Come shoot me - please! I dare you! Then you would be here and I would at least be resting and everyone would have their needs fulfilled.

Mostly (and this is important) I would be resting.

Because it's the end of the school year and somebody needs to chill. I'm not naming names.

(It's me)

So! Lots and lots of really fun and interesting Things Happened Recently! Shall I share? I shall try:

Thing 1
Dessa walks! Sort of. A few steps. The Boston Marathon is right out for now, but she's doing her own thing. It is exciting. For me. For you? Maybe not so much.

Thing 2
Dessa had a birthday. Before she had the birthday, she got a dress. It was maybe the Cutest Dress EVER.



Check out those shoes! Sparkly pink shoes! They are so cute I want them in my size. The dress would not work on me, but the shoes? I could totally work the shoes.

Thing 3
On Dessa's birthday, she got a lot of presents. Sort of an obscene amount of presents. As if on cue, she mostly enjoyed the wrapping paper best.

Thing 4
On Dessa's birthday, there was cake. A LOT of cake. In fact, there were no fewer than three cakes.

There was the text-focused chocolate cake that Nana made:



There was the character-driven Elmo cake that Mommy made:



(Word to the wise. Black icing? Leaves your teeth a GROSS shade of (surprise!) black.)

And finally, there was Dessa's very own cake that her Auntie AC got so that Dessa could really get into the Cake Thing. And please rest assured that Dessa totally got into the cake thing:



Thing... where was I? Oh Yes! Thing 4.5
Giving Dessa her own cake sort of ended up in a disaster of epic proportions, which we all predicted, and that's why Dessa is clad only in a diaper while she eats her cake. Her Mama was not born yesterday.


Thing 5
There is a metric ton of other video footage from the party that I need to process and which we all know I will likely get around to in...oh... SEPTEMBER. If I'm lucky. Suffice it to say, for now, that we had a really great time, the house was in fine shape, everybody enjoyed themselves and Dessa will not remember a damn thing about it. Which is just about exactly what a first birthday party is all about, right? I have a friend who told me that the first birthday is the Mom's secret Hey-I-Survived-And-So-Did-The-Baby! party and I could not agree more.

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on Thursday, June 5th, Brat said

Yay!!! Finally pics and video!! I've been jonesing! Go, Dessa, go!! How exciting is the walking? And oh how paper is exciting -- we have discovered this here as well. And look at her with her cake! Isolating her index finger and licking off it!!! Well, honey, better late than never on the sharing... thank you, you made my day!!