Proud grandparents: Daryl and Sally Moss, Barbara and Richard Ek with Burl on his 1st birthday March 21, 2009. Everyone was pretty well fed and happy to see this little guy have such a good time with a room full of grown-ups.

Alex, Amber and Burl on his first birthday March 21, 2009. Burl is the most incredible boy; almost always in a good mood, always hungry and always inquisitive, always moving. He doesn't like to reach up and hold hands with anyone, not even his mom or dad. He needs no help getting around.

When it was his turn to dig into his carrot cake and home-made ice cream, he got a kick out of the attention paid from all the grown ups in the room; grandparents, aunts, uncles and friends plus dad and mom

Burl is no different than other 1-year old boy; he likes cake and ice cream! It didn't bother him to put his foot into the bowl. Funny, when he wanted to clean the goo off his fingers, he would wipe it on the carpet, not the sheet!

This picture doesn't show it very well, but Burl has taken to making faces and enjoys making us laugh. He is starting to do a lot of "toddler" things (a couple of weeks before his 1st birthday - March 21) and he is so much fun to watch.

Burl enjoys being outdoors more than indoors, even when the temperature is 45 degrees. He has the coolest little leather shoes but when it warms up he'll probably be barefoot most of the time. The dogs like it when he throws the ball.