Alexa Turns One - And a Visit with Will!

This is a pre-dated post, because Mommy is finally catching up with all the picture taking she's been doing!  So disregard the date this is actually being posted, and check out the date that I "said" it was posted (one week ago).

Caleb's friend Alexa turned 1 this weekend!  On Friday we went to the Galleria for a little exercise with Aunt Suzy and Alexa's mommy, Michelle, and then met Davina for Lunch.  It was fun because we also got to see Daddy, who works in an office building attached to the Galleria!  Alexa and Caleb got to play for a little bit.  Ella was sleeping in her stroller, so she didn't join in the fun this time.

On Saturday morning we went to our new friend Rinah's baby naming to celebrate with her parents - Debra and Jeremy.  We also got to see Maxwell's Grandma while we were there!  Then we headed to the airport to pick up Bubbe!!!  (There will be a whole separate post dedicated to Bubbe's visit, so we'll come back to that later.)  From the airport we went to Alexa's Birthday Party where we had a great time!  We got to play with our friends, including Ella, and we got to watch Alexa devour a super-yummy cupcake (Caleb wasn't jealous yet... but it's only a matter of time).  We even got to meet Shane's Bubbe (Sasa and Shelly's Mommy), Julie!  She was super fun (even if Shane wouldn't open his eyes for a single picture)!

Caleb LOVES Shane. Whenever he is around, Caleb just watches him with wonder.  That's a good thing because, being the only other boy around Dallas in our group of Friends, Shane is going to have to show Caleb the ropes. Having a boy around is an anomoly for Shane too, so he has already agreed that he'll show Caleb how to be a good boy as he gets older. 

Of course, a post wouldn't be complete without a photo of Caleb and his girlfriend, Ella (here with her Daddy, Oren):

Later that night, after a much-needed nap and a little cuddle time with Bubbe, we had a suprise opportunity to go visit Caleb's friend Will who was visiting with his mommy and daddy from Austin.  Will's mommy is Daddy's best friend from Law School, Lauren, so it is super cool that Will and Caleb were born less than a month apart!  Of course, Will is MUCH bigger than Caleb, because he was born 10.5 pounds and 24 inches (not much smaller than Caleb is today), but what Caleb lacks in size (not that he's too small), he makes up for in SMILES!  Caleb is now about 24 inches and 11.25 pounds and Will is 27 inches and 17 pounds.  Unfortunately, Daddy couldn't make it for the visit because he was sick, so Mommy and Bubbe had to do all the Will-cuddling:

I don't know how well this slide show works for those receiving this post via email, so please let me know if you can't see it.  Here is a picasa slide show of all of our play date with will photos (both this play date and the one from when they were about a month old):

On Sunday we had more fun with Bubbe, and we got to celebrate our new friend, Shoshana Joy!  (But Mommy will send out more about that later).