Celebrating two years of Frankie's life!

Today, in addition to a morning spent with friends, going out to lunch and going to the zoo, we had a small celebration for Frankie. Being as we missed his birthday (I'm guesstimating that it was sometime in October) and he was singing "Happy Birthday, yeah Fwankie!" all yesterday, I decided that he needed a small party with cake, candles and singing.

Being as many Ugandan children like Frankie don't even make it to their second birthday thanks to malaria, diarrhea and other hard facts of life here, I am very grateful for God's care and protection over Frankie these last two years of his life. His life and survival are nothing to take for granted!

The party only consisted of our family and our neighbor baby, James, and his mom, Kathryn because, after all, this is Frankie and I wanted him to enjoy the attention without feeling overwhelmed.

There really are two candles on the cake even though in this picture you can only see one. Frank's party hat makes him look like either a dunce or a princess, not sure which!

I even threw in one small gift (wrapped in Christmas paper but it was recycled from last Christmas!) which come to find out, he didn't know how to open... But Frankie really enjoyed his little party and I was satisfied by his happy little face and belly laughs. He was still singing happy birthday when I gave him a bath!!

Ella helped me make the cake last night. She's quite the little helper, that L :)

She even helps wash the dishes!

Frankie found the dog sunvisor that L got at the Montana Fair this year and boy does he make a cute dog!! He just cracked me up with his fat little cheeks and dog ears hanging. Fit's in better with the rest of the bunch I'd say!

Isn't that a hoot? He's such a dorky, baby chunk!