Coming up on One!

With everything that has gone on in my life over the past year it's no surprise that Sebastian's first birthday is less than 48 hours away.  Holy cow!  My baby is almost ONE.  I look back at his pictures over the year and can't believe how much he's grown and changed.  I'm definitely one proud (but tired) mama.  His latest discovery has been the stairs.  He can go up, but not down.  So we follow behind him as he climbs, then let him crawl around on the landing a bit before we carry him back down.  He never tires of this.  Ever.  We, on the other hand, are tired by the 5th or 6th time.  :)

Every kid's gotta have a first birthday party, right?  Seb's no different, but I didn't want to go too crazy since he's, well, one, he can't talk, doesn't really have friends, and has no concept of what a birthday is.  But...mommy and daddy have friends!  So I decided to keep it simple and do a BBQ lunch.  We're going with a race car theme because we're big F1 fans and the year I was pregnant there were 2 driver's named Sebastian.  Hearing their names during the races is what helped me get used to and warmed me up to the name (which Adam has always liked).  Nobody attending will get it, but I thought it was perfect to do race cars because one of the drivers always flashes a "1" finger when he wins or gets pole.  It's perfect for Sebastian's FIRST birthday. 

Seb's birthday invitation

In recovery news, the fingers on my right hand are still unable to feel temperature, but they don't have the heavy numb feeling my left hand does (still numb though).  I also seem to have better control of my right hand with typing than my left hand, which is difficult because I never realized how often one needs the letter "A" when typing...and I almost always miss it.  I also picked up and held a pen normally when I was writing checks and paying bills last week.  I still reposition it within my hand several times because I don't quite "feel" it, but it was huge to hold a pen normally and not drop it.  Baby steps, frustratingly small, but progress nonetheless, right?