Saturday, August 18, 2007

Eli's 1st Birthday

This is the kid who stole my limelight!



















Seriously, how could I compete with that?














These are my other nephews and my niece. They tried real hard to distract attention away from this new starlet but to no avail.















He had clearly won the contest once he put the icing in his eye.










This little guy demands plenty of attention and requires many cameras.





In the U.S., we have a tradition of giving a small cake to a baby on his first birthday. Then we all stand around and "oooh" and "aaaah" while he has his first taste of cake. It's all very touching but I feel that this is giving children false expectations. He might expect the same for his second birthday... but will be sadly disappointed. It's all down-hill after you turn one year old.


Sure he's sweet now, but in a few years he'll be demanding a car, iphone, laptop, money for movies...















This one's a keeper.

















I couldn't help but to post this picture. It really captures the real Marc, some things just cannot be put into words.


1 comment:

Unknown said...

WELL, MY DEAR, LET ME REMIND YOU OF YOUR PAST " AT LEAST A WEEK " BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS. WE SURE DID HAVE SOME GREAT TIMES. HOPE WE KEEP THE TRADITION UP WHEN YOU MAKE IT BACK TO THE USA. LOVE YOU LOTS,
ALWAYS, MOM