just in case...

anyone might still be around and following this sorry excuse of a blog, I am going to try one more time to find the motivation to write on a more regular basis and update this space.  For now, here are a couple of pictures of the boy who gives me a thousand things to write about but who spends my writing energy elsewhere.
Can you believe he turned a year old 2 weeks ago??? He has been walking since about 10.5 months and now he can go so fast its almost a run.  And his vocabulary, well, it's simply incredible: hat, shoes, ball, outside (i'll admit it sounds more like 'side but trust me, its outside) car, cat, bottle (more like ba-al but I know what he means) and of course bye bye, mama, dada and his new favourite word and thing in the world: puppa (for puppy).

Mama, Elliot (in one of the few moments where he looks like me), Uncle Jeff and cousin Abigail on Elliot's birthday (pre-party)

Abigail and Elliot having a time at the park

Elliot's first birthday cake. Slightly melted by this point in the day but a beautiful Thomas and Friends theme cake provided by our friendly bakers at the local IGA.  We decided to avoid the scene that would have inevitably unfolded, if I had tried to make a cake myself, that we would order one this year. It was the right decision.