Happy birthday baby!

It's been a big day for Graham. It's his birthday, and he started walking! (His first steps were yesterday, but he refused to attempt more than one at a time. He's progressing rapidly.) Footage:

Graham walks! from Katie on Vimeo.

Note in the video that we are all wiped out by our record 100+ temps today, and Finn's ever-increasing interest in imaginary play. Two months ago if you'd have told him that ball was a fish he'd have said "no, it's a ball," and looked at you like you were crazy. Now he tells *us* it's a fish, and that we should pet it.

Yesterday we had a lovely small party for Graham, with family, close friends, cake, and cupcakes, but the presents and cake footage were taken with the actual video camera, not my phone, and needs to be converted and edited. Hopefully we'll get that up before his next birthday.

This was the last weekend for the train that goes from the mountains clear down to the beach, so that's what we did Saturday. Here's a shot of the boys enjoying the ride.

An hour each way where both boys were entranced, and we mostly got to sit still in a cool redwood forest. Can't recommend it highly enough.