After the Storm

Benjamin survived his first birthday, but it's almost amazing he wasn't done in by the piles of wrapping paper and gifts surrounding him. Three different people stopped by the house yesterday to drop off a gift, and he didn't get all the ones from us or his grandparents opened. We did the gift opening in stages, since we didn't want to overwhelm him and wanted him to play with the stuff before getting something new.

He's got a gift from one of Meron's friends that should arrive today, two more that we were going to give him before his party Saturday, and then the ones from us and all the grandparents that we were holding back for the party. This kid is not going to know what to do with all the new stuff!

I think his favorites from yesterday were the box of books my mom and dad gave him (in abstentia, since they are in Israel right now), the big stuffed Elmo Meron's mom sent him, the Little People farm from us and the bath toys of Pooh and Piglet that we gave him. That is a portion of what he got, but probably not even half.

That eye and nose stuff hasn't really cleared up much, so we are going back to the doctor today. He still should look good enough for those Santa pictures, though.

Chris Carpenter won the Cy Young yesterday. He was quite deserving, though I was afraid his late season slump would do him in. What I couldn't believe was how few votes Roger Clemens got. It was billed all year (until Dontrelle Willis came on pretty strong late) as Clemens vs. Carpenter, and Clemens had this sub-2.00 ERA and was just amazing. I thought he'd get a lot more votes than he did.

Gotta run Benjamin to the doctor. If I don't come back to blogging, have a great weekend everyone!