good morning birthday baby!

{ birthday post part one }

good morning birthday boy! mommy snuck in your room this morning and took your picture at exactly 7:45am! {on another camera...mine is too loud!} you were sleeping soundly! a little more calm at that exact moment than you were 12 months ago! when you did wake up this morning you were sooo surprised to see 12 balloons floating on your floor! you just kept pointing at them in confusion!

for breakfast mommy made you your favorite...pancakes!
today it was a special breakfast...they were a firetruck and fire hydrant pancakes!




you were impressed!!!

so southern : so momma

i've recently learned...that setting place cards at the table is very southern...raised in the south...it would make sense i suppose that i thought everyone did it! well it explains why my southern born, raised, living momma always decks out her table for dinner complete with place cards...even on no "special" occasion!

they, of course, are no ordinary place cards...they are ones she makes! here are the current ones...

she made the candle with cinnamon sticks, a skinny cut of burlap, a bit of paper for the name and a small piece of vintage brown transferware! aren't they precious! and mom doesn't stop at the place cards...her chair toppers are made of burlap pipped in a green dupioni silk...so very fall...and quite impressive...she's just that good!

its always a treat to pull up a chair at mom's table!!!