Happy Birthday Lorne!

Today is Lorne's 31st birthday. He is working today so I will bake his birthday cake while he's gone as a surprise. We're both watching our weight so I am hesitant to bake anything, but everyone needs a cake on their birthday!

I love to shop for birthdays. I ordered all of Sawyer's presents online. They started coming in on Friday and Saturday. It was like Christmas around here. We got four different packages on Saturday so Lorne was giving me a hard time. I told him it was because Amazon ships in numerous packages to expedite their shipping. I'm not sure he bought it though.


Sawyer before bathtime Friday playing with Daddy's Nemesis Factor game. He likes it because it lights up.

We had a great weekend. We went to Fishmonger's for seafood on Saturday for Lorne's birthday. His first choice was ribs at Tony Roma's but they have apparently closed down sometime in the past year since we've been there. Maybe they'd still be open if we'd gone more. We went to have seafood as his second choice. It was pretty deserted at the restaurant. We figured everyone must have been barbecuing or out on the lake.

Lorne is building a flower bed in the back yard. We went to Home Depot last Tuesday to order the retaining wall bricks, lumber, and sand. They were delivered on Thursday. Lorne worked on his project on Saturday and Sunday while I stayed inside with Sawyer. It's going to look really nice when he gets it all finished. It is definitely a work in progress.


Lorne working hard on his flower bed.

We went to Jeremy and Denise's house for dinner Saturday night. Jeremy's parents were in town so we were invited over for pork tenderloin, beans, carrots, and fruit. Denise made a delicious Tiramisu for dessert. I ate a piece, but apparently Jeremy was joking when he said it was low fat. I found out later that it wasn't. When we got home I looked it up in my Weight Watchers book and one piece is ten points. Yikes! Needless to say, it has been a long few days without any Flex points since I used them all on Saturday.


Sawyer had fun playing in his empty Pampers box on Saturday. He giggled while I pushed and spun him around the living room.


We played with the box on Sunday too. Why did I spend money on birthday presents? He could just play with our empty boxes.

Sawyer took a bath in the big tub for the first time last night. He started crawling out of his duck tub so I knew that it was time for the transition. I was afraid that he would slip and fall when he was climbing. I still need to buy some of those non-skid bathtub appliques. I found some rubber ducky ones online that I might get. I'm thinking about redecorating the guest bathroom with ducks in the future. I think that would be cute! I'm not sure how our guests would feel about that though.


Sawyer with his baby mohawk.


He always tries to drink out of the cup I use to rinse him...yuck!


He laughs when I rinse the shampoo out of his hair.


Thanks Daddy for taking my picture!