Scenes from a Happy Birthday

The Family Birthday Party....
We enjoyed Homemade Pizza - YUM! See? The Birthday Boy loved the pizza:




Played with cousins:



The Birthday Boy enjoyed his very own cupcake (a little too much of it, actually...can you say 3 am tummy ache?)

hmmmm...what do I do with this?


Here, Mommy will show you what to do!




Like this?



Getting the hang of eating a WHOLE cupcake!







PRESENT TIME!
The favorite present was the bucket of pop together beads. The bucket was actually the highlight for Little Man, but I didn't get a picture of that :(

Of course, there was MORE than one gift, but silly mommy didn't get a picture of all the loot. But, he got several books, new shoes and the beads from Mom and Dad. Bubby gave his little brother a football. Our good friends gave Little Man a new pool float that has a sunshade (YAY!), a toy phone from his aunt, and two new teddy bears from Haba. Oh, and Haba is crocheting a blanket, too!

We also went out for a birthday dinner at Chili's on his ACTUAL birthday:

Lovin' Dad's Strawberry Lemonade:



Clap for me dad, it's my birthday! Yay for my birthday!


Awwww...birthday kisses from dad!


Hurray! I LOVE my birthday! It's FuN to be ONE!


(Do you see what that bib says? "Chicks Dig Me". Yep, they do!)

Happy Birthday, Little Man! We are SO happy that you came to our family. Here's some of your accomplishments in your first year of life:
1. You have grown 8 teeth with hardly a complaint. Such a sweet boy!
2. You have been sleeping through the night for many months. Thank you!
3. You have mastered crawling (which you did at 8 months), and have been cruising the furniture for quite some time now.
4. You have figured out how to stand yourself up in the middle of the room.
5. You have taken your first steps, and are getting more sturdy each day.
6. You make me laugh EVERY DAY - several times each day, in fact!
7. You have discovered that YOU ARE FUNNY! You PURPOSELY make me laugh!
8. You are such a good eater. You eat just about anything we put in front of you. BROCCOLI, CARROTS, GREEN BEANS, you get the idea!
9. You take GREAT NAPS!
10. You are SO cute with your big brother. You laugh at almost ANYTHING he does. It melts my heart!
11. You make the cutest vocalizations!
12. I love that you clap for yourself when you are practicing walking.
13. I love that you can blow bubbles in the water. Such a big boy!
14. I love that you are so brave in the pool - no clinging for you! You kick and splash and have a blast!
15. I love that you are so snuggly. Your kisses and cuddles melt my heart!
I love you, Little Man! Happy 1st birthday. I look forward to our adventures together this coming year!

Some Pictures for You

I'm being brave today. I just hope brave does not turn into "sorry", and that nobody creepy views this blog with the hopes of snagging pictures of a cute baby and doing weird things with those pics. Okay, do I sound paranoid enough? I shouldn't be, since I think there are a grand total of about 3 people who even view my blog, and I know your intentions are legit! Anyway, I thought I would post so pics of my chillins for ya to enjoy. Most of these are from Easter. The first one is Little Man at my mom's grand Easter party. He hit the motherload with all those empty Easter eggs! Heaven!
The next is Bubby at the family Easter shindig, hunting eggs.
And Bubby climbing the walls to get an egg.
Then there's Little Man with his little egg at our house that morning.
The last is my favorite. A tender moment shared by brothers. My little loves!

ROLLIN', ROLLIN', ROLLIN'!!

The Little Man has figured out how to roll from his back to his tummy. It started late yesterday afternoon while he was "crying it out" in his crib. (Don't worry - it's not like it was an epic, hours long situation. The crying only lasted about 10 minutes). I went in to check on him when he got quiet, and found him fast asleep on his tummy. I rolled him onto his side, since his face was FACE DOWN (not turned to the side). He has since rolled from tummy to back 5-6 times today. The only problem is - HE DOESN"T REALLY LIKE BEING ON HIS TUMMY! Funny boy! So, now he's just got to figure out how to get himself back onto his back. I'll let ya know when that happens!

Little Show-Off

Yesterday, I took the Little Man in for his 4 month well-baby visit (although, he will ACTUALLY be 5 months this Saturday). He weighs 16 pounds. He is 27 1/4" tall. This puts him in the 60th percentile for weight, and 90-95% for height. Yes, one day I will be looking UP to my boys!

When the doctor put her fingers into his little hands to test his ability to pull himself up to sitting (with her help), he pulled himself up to STANDING. She commented, "Little show-off!". This, I was informed, is a bit ahead of the curve for his age. SMARTY PANTS! He smiled for the doctor (the whole visit) and also showed off his LOUD voice ("talking"). When placed on his tummy, he showed off how strong his neck is. When placed back on his back, he showed off how he is THIS close to rolling onto his tummy from his back.

Overall, we still have a healthy baby boy!

Now, if we could just get him to sleep through the night and take some REAL naps......(working on that, by the way! We'll let you know when we have success!)