Another Birthday Celebration

The kids had two solid weeks of birthday celebrations - starting in Thunder Bay with Kate's parents, and then with Kate's office colleagues, and then on the day with the Mariposa adopted grandparents, and then at home with us, and then, a few days later a backyard party with my parents, Beth's family and Dan & Alison's family. Here are photos of the latter.

Can you spot the child-rearing problems in this photo? I count at least four:

1) Jacob's chocolate is broken. Could happen to anyone, but is it the beginning of a litany of complaints that we always favoured Molly?
2) Matches left out for the kids to play with
3) My numerically dyslexic mother put the #1 candle on backwards. Whose math skills will the kids inherit?
4) Is that seriously the LCBO magazine under their 1st birthday cake? Never too early to start learning about whether a shiraz or a merlot goes better with chocolate cake.

More presents for our horribly spoiled children. Yes, all 14 of these people, plus Ben, slept at our house that night. And I think all the kids slept reasonably soundly. Miraculous.

Train engineer Molly

Jacob going out on a trek. He would crawl for miles if we didn't intervene.

Alison and the big twins bring Jacob back to the group

Beth and a very serious Molly

The kids attack the chocolate strawberries from their cake.