18 Months

Annalise is 18 months old today! So we had a half birthday cake. Actually it's half of the cake I baked a week ago (I froze half) for our anniversary.
Doesn't it look funny to see a baby wearing a watch? But she insisted!!!
It took several tries, but she blew them both out, and very drily too I might add. I didn't notice that much until Caleb asked it he could blow them out (we missed his half birthday because we were in Orlando) and he was a spluttery blower! ick!

And if you're not tired of caterpillar pictures yet...I have more! Right now we have (at least) FIVE caterpillars on the milkweed plants! Three of them are bigger, probably 3rd instar, and two are very small...
this is one of the smaller ones, I think it is 2nd instar though. 1st instar is only 1/8 of an inch and this was easily 1/4 inch long.

And we have many more eggs that have not hatched yet. The ants and the aphids seem much too preoccupied with milkweed itself to bother these guys much - although the flower part of the milkweed is just covered in aphids. I am curious to see how much damage 5+ caterpillars can do to two milkweed plants! We may have to wait for the plants to regrow all their leaves if these guys all make it to the chrysalis stage.