Well, you’ve certainly been 1 years old for awhile now. There have been lots of laughs; lots of crys; all of it with love. You’ve picked up more words to say and you’ve grown a lot more teeth, which you seem to enjoy since you are now able to chew food that you weren’t able to chew before. You still love to stuff your face and store food in your mouth. Many things have happened since you turned one, but even though I haven’t written in your blog since then, during the time since I’ve last written in here, I’ve just been growing to love you more and more. So don’t you think (when you’re all grown up and reading this) that Daddy ever forgot about you and didn’t care about your blog. I, your mom, your sisters and brothers, and everyone else in your family will always love you no matter what. And don’t you ever forget that.

A lot has happen, so instead of trying to write about it all, here are some of photos of some highlights.

You love to swim. You don’t know how to, but you love it just the same.

And you loved to take out the trash. You were very helpful.

We went to the Strawberry Festival in Oxnard, CA. You LOVE strawberries.

We took you in for Strabismus surgery. We were so worried. You were so little, but we had faith in the doctor and that your eyes were going to be straight and better. We didn’t want you to loose sight in one of your eyes so we decided that we had to get it done. It broke our hearts seeing when the doctor took you away and then when they brought you in to recovery – seeing you with the respirator on and all the monitors made your mother and I cry. But they said that everything went great and that you were going to be okay. The reasurrance made us feel much better. I even wore the shirt that I wore when you were born for good luck.

We took a big family vacation to Cancun in June with Ye-ye, Ma-ma, Uncle Matt, Auntie Lyly, Kelina, Malia, Cayden and Kaiya. You’re becoming quite a traveler. The ocean was beautiful and we saw some Mayan ruins. You loved the beach and loved playing in the sand.

Julius and Jared came down to be with us for the summer. Then Auntie Mary, Trey, Bo and Uriah visited so we could all go to Disneyland together. It was your first time to the “Happiest Place in the Earth.” You both loved it. We had the greatest time. You loved the Dumbo ride. I think that one was your favorite.

We celebrated Jared’s birthday July 13. We all went to Uncle Mike’s and Auntie Martha’s and had a pool party with delicious food provide by Auntie Martha. We opened ate, swam and Jared blew out the candles and opened his presents.

It was a wonderful summer. Definitely a summer to remember. Like this moment when you were playing Mia’s Nintendo DS.

Now, that’s not all. When I get another chance, I’ll tell you about the rest of the summer.