Monthly Archives: August 2008

More Birthday Fun

It’s little brother again! To continue the first birthday celebration, mom, dad, and big brother brought me to the Florida Aquarium. I love birds so mom and dad thought I’d get a kick out of the area where the birds are walking around.

An American crocodile:

Sitting with the mermaid we met:

We saw big fish, small fish, scary fish, and cute fish. There was more than just fish there though. Big brother wanted to see the octopus and big shark but that part of the aquarium was closed.

The rays were so funny! They would put a wing out of the water and splash. They got me, big brother, and mom’s camera wet!

When mom and dad visited FL together about nine or ten years ago, they took a picture of themselves at the aquarium in front of one of the tanks. This is our family now, with a water splash in the middle of the picture from the rays, in front of the same tank.

Playing on the turtle:

Touching the starfish:

Me and dad:

After the aquarium, we went out for my birthday dinner and I got more cake! It came with ice cream too which was good until I decided to smash the ice cream making it splash ALL OVER the booth. That’s when mom took it away. The people eating near us thought it was funny though.

On the way home mom and dad let us stop by the park for a few minutes. We had fun on the swings and slides.

Spending the entire day enjoying family time was the best. We are so blessed to have one another! What a wonderful way to celebrate a birthday!

Birthday Party

Little brother here. Thanks to everyone for the birthday messages! I had a great time celebrating my first birthday with friends and family at my party this weekend. To go with my “Let’s Have a Ball” party theme, mom and dad set up two ball pits with almost a THOUSAND balls in them! Besides all of those, there were playground balls, baseballs, bouncy balls, punching balls, and foam balls. I also love birds so there were parrots hanging around the ceiling and grammy even sent a talking parrot that said a few personalized Happy Birthday messages to me. And of course there were first birthday streamers, plates, table cloths, signs, and other first birthday decorations including a poster with pictures of me each month of my first year.

Thank you to my friends that came to celebrate with me! When it came time for the cake, mom brought out a small one for me to share with the other kids there. We got to get messy sticking our fingers, hands, and even our noses;)into the cake to enjoy the frosting. Then I decided to sit in it so mom had to clean it up and serve the real cake.

It was really an awesome party and we all had lots of fun. Now we just have to find room in our house to inflate the giant ball pit again!

The winner of the free session with the creative first birthday message will be announced tomorrow!

First Day of Preschool

Hi everyone, big brother here! Tomorrow is the second day of preschool, so we wanted to share a few pictures of the first day. Mom was careful to stay excited and upbeat while dropping me off, but she didn’t need to worry because I was fine. As soon as she left she started crying, but I was having lots of fun. Mom says that is just how it should be.

Dad had to stop by my school to drop off something and snuck a couple pictures through the window of the classroom (he thought he was being sneaky, but he was quickly spotted). He got sentimental seeing me in my classroom too.

When mom picked me up I told her about the friends I made and the fun I had playing and learning new shapes. I kept asking her almost every day when I get to go back and tomorrow I do!

Want a Free Session?

Are you energetic, nice, fun, and up for anything? Are you free Thursday evening (the 28th)? Do you want a free session? Send an email to jasonangelini@aol.com! This is open to anyone; you don’t need to have booked dad for your wedding. It will be an outdoor session at a location that dad will choose (probably in the Brandon area). It can be any type of session: engagement, bridal, trash the dress, anniversary, just because…even For His Eyes Only.

In case we have many energetic, nice, fun, up for anything people with nothing else going on next Thursday who want a session, send a picture of you holding your most creative Happy 1st Birthday message (see blog entry below for pictures from the 1st birthday session!) The message can be in any form as long as you make it, so be sure to include yourself in the picture as “proof.” All emails must be received by Monday night when we blog about the 1st Birthday party. On Tuesday we will contact the maker of the person we think had the most creative message with time and place details for the session.

It will be fun! Someone will get a free session, and we get to make a scrapbook of a bunch of cool 1st birthday pictures that come in:)

Little Brother’s First Birthday Session

With one of us just starting preschool and the other turning one in a few days, mom has been extra sappy towards us lately. We won’t say anything about how quickly kids grow up or that sort of thing because mom will start crying again (though she says they are proud and happy tears too). Instead, we’ll go right to pictures from the 1 year session.

Just born:

6 months:

3 hair cuts later…1 year!!!

Brothers:

Mom thinks big brother looks much too big in this picture:

To fit the birthday party theme:

Looking skeptical:

Big brother showing him what to do:


Messy!!

But yummy.

Mom and dad were hoping for this picture since they thought it was so funny when James and Allison’s daughter did it at her first birthday session:

Mom helping out:

Down to business…SMASH!

Looking cute in the mess.

Soon we’ll have pictures from the party which is going to be so much fun!