happy birthday tony d!

tony d. was up bright and early to start his birthday! 6:45 a.m. and we felt him crawl in bed with us...he laid quietly for about another 1/2 hour before he finally lost his patience and wanted to open his present.

john and i (after much discussion) decided on a cabbage patch kid for anthony. he has become obsessed with "caring" for babies to the point where he'll carry around the strangest things (ie: napkins) saying they're his babies, "feeding" them, "changing" them, etc. john's only stipulation was that it was a boy baby. can i just tell you the premium i had to pay to obtain a boy cabbage patch doll? can you say about $40 more than the girls? ridiculous and the reason behind only 1 gift this year from mama and daddy (plus the party)...he didn't care.

let me introduce you to duncan bertram...

funny thing...when i ordered the cpk, i wasn't able to read the name of him online, so to my surprise (and excitement) when he arrived and i read his name, tony's baby's middle name(bertram) was the name of my first boy cpk when i was growing up. i was extremely excited about this and knew this was a sign that we had made a right choice in his present!

tony was really excited about his new "baby"!

after our present opening in bed this morning, we headed off for church. tony had a special "shout out in the bulletin" for his birthday and pastor amy even mentioned him and asked his "new age" during the children's circle this morning.

after church (and a quick nap for t), we headed off to his favorite restaurant, sebastiano's, where we met up with 30 of our friends and family to celebrate tony's big day.

after enjoying chicken parm w/angel hair pasta or baked ziti, salad bar and garlic bread, we all dug into the yummy cake! thanks nee nee!

tony had no complaints!

i'm pretty sure everyone had a good time. we couldn't have asked for tony to be in a better mood than he was. even with all the people and presents and sugar, he was on his best behavior!

after leaving the restaurant and heading home, the next two hours were filled with him playing with every single toy he received...i'm not kidding you...aside from trying on the clothes he received, he played. with. everything.

for a complete look at his day, click here for his birthday photo album!