Fun at the Diamond/Latham Household Today

Oja and Cameron finally finished off their semester of school and arrived by train yesterday for 2 wonderful weeks being here. Also, Rally and Jinasia are finally here from the east coast and Jiji and Ricky have been here for a week so the Diamond family is all together! Plus, Neil was here for a week so the Latham family was also complete. :)

Today is a very, very special day because... Our little Sterling turns 1 year old!! A whole year!!! Sometimes it feels like I've been a daddy forever but sometimes it's hard to believe it's only been a year. He's certainly growing up fast and it won't be long before he's singing in the childrens' programs and going off to school. Just one year ago, we were hanging out at home, getting ready for a small party, when he decided to take us literally when we said we hoped he'd hurry up! The door was opened and out you came, a week early, to be there for the new year party! We will always have a laugh over that. :P

Today, a year later, Sterling is up and walking and he has the beginnings of a good vocabulary. We are hoping to expose him to as much Catin as possible as well so that he will become fluent like both of our families. It helps when lots of our friends speak it, or at least, understand it well. He is an early riser and has been early in just about everything. We have a big party planned, and always will, since his birthday falls on one of the biggest days of celebration.

What a plan we have! Since our house is a lovely house for hosting parties and concerts, we have a big one planned for tonight. We will be performing and there will be games in the backyard and games room. There will be lots of yummy food and lots of other entertainment as well. Plus, we're all going to sing to the birthday boy and give him lots of attention on his special day. :) Oh how exciting it is to have a birthday on New Year's Eve!

There will be tons of people in our house tonight and everyone who is around is welcome. Early partygoers can start to come by at about 4. We'll start the concert at 6 and then at 7:30 we'll begin with the birthday celebration. After that we'll play some games and then count down to the new year. It'll be a blast!