Learning Thai

One year ago today....

Silas Rhodes Mast made his grand entrance at Bumrungrad Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand.
And after the fastest year I can remember....

The birthday boy is one year old.
I discovered that it is an impossible job to take birthday pictures of a one year old. He kept trying to crawl off and play in the dirt and refused to look at the camera plus kept chewing on his lips because he's teething. Most of my pictures are of his backside.

Claire and Eliza came running to our room when they heard Silas this morning. Eliza immediately said, "I just want to see how big he is!" So we all laid around on the bed and admired him for awhile until he got too rowdy and kept trying to nosedive off the bed.

Some of our sweet friends helped us celebrate with ice cream at Swensens. Silas was pretty impressed with his first ice cream.

Silas and Dtukda- we were celebrating both their birthdays.

Later in the day he opened presents (with plenty of help from the girls) and had some cake. Future soccer star here.

"Are you sure I'm allowed to just dig right into this??? After a year of no sweets, I get ice cream AND cake in one day??"

All worn out from eating cake and opening presents. Silas, like Eliza on her first birthday just delicately picked at the cake, unlike Claire who was a two handed face stuffer on hers!

Happy Birthday, big boy! We love you!!!!
-C