The big birthday weekend....

went well. EJ is now "officially" 1! I cant believe how fast time goes and how big he is. he's practically running around the house and wanting to play with everything he shouldnt. Unfortunately I have been super sick since last thursday and that seriously put a damper on the weekend, but my best friend sara and her boyfriend matty flew in from Philly this weekend which was awesome. it was great to have them here. and they brought food for the party and apparently matty loves to wash dishes and washed every dish in our house by hand the entire weekend. it worked out well! :)
saturday morning was spent cleaning and straightening out before the party. people started to arrive about 2:30 and everyone was here by 4. it was nice and low key (13 people) which was good since i spend the first half curled up ion the couch in a fleece jacket and under the blanket wishing i could just crawl into a hole and dissapear. i was upset because i could barely move and i was missing my son's party but then i puked and was able to join everyone else (nice huh?). he opened presents and got a lot of cool stuff and some super cute clothes (thanks sara!). cake also went well although he was pretty uninterested in the actual cake, he was more excited to play with the miniature curius george figure on top. but thats ok, Amelia helped him out with actually eating the cake. she would sneak up to his high chair slowly reach out her hand and then pull a piece off quickly and into her mouth (like she didnt think we would all see her!) it was super cute.
overall a success...and there are pictures to follow.....

sunday we (E, sara, matty and i) went on a driving tour of miami to see all the "important" miami stuff. it was a nice ride and i actually got to see stuff i had never seen before. we ate at fridays as the baby was cranky and we needed a "kid friendly" environment. the food was good i guess but since i got sick i havent really eaten much (i had 2 wontons at fridays). we headedhome and watched some stand up comedy and then i was off to bed.

monday (hooray for long weekends) we drove out to the everglades and "alligator hunting" well not really but we drove down loop road which is a dirt road through the everglades where you can look for gators. we saw a few. apparently it usually only takes about and hour and a half to drive through but the road was flooded over in most places so it was a slow muddy ride. my car was super pretty afterwards!! it still needs a bath.