WordPress Page Navigation Modifications

I have a couple of things I want to do:

WordPress automatically lists all pages in the navigation system. Since my Site starts up with a page versus the standard “Blog view”, I’d like to omit that particular page

Also, I’d like to add a link to my blog in the navigation system.

Here’s the code I believe needs to be modified:

<!–Begin Pages Navigation Bar–>
<div id=”pages”>

<li class=”page_item”>“>Home
<?php wp_list_pages(‘depth=1&title_li=’); ?>

</div>
<!–End Pages Navigation Bar–>

Any help or suggestion will be greatly appreciated.

L