Our little man turned one today! Actually, if you want to be technical, his birthday isn't until 10:42 (if I remember correctly) tonight. But today is the day. We got up this morning and had our usual photo shoot. Those have gotten more difficult as he has gotten more mobile. Today was nearly impossible between the wiggles and him not feeling good because he's got several teeth coming in. We did manage to get some cute ones though:
This evening we decided to try round two with cupcakes. At his birthday party he just smashed it to bits and threw it all overboard into the floor for Kona. Tonight was not much different. You'll see in the series of photos below that he does have some icing on his face - Nathan got him to try a bite of it but he seemed less than impressed with the whole thing.
We had a fun, low-key day with our little monkey today - it was so nice to go to church as a family, have lunch with some friends, and then come home for naps and some family time. It's hard to believe it's been a year. I was snuggling with him this evening and with his head laying up near my shoulder, his feet were at my knees! When he was born he fit up on my chest with his feet just at my waist... He's quite a "waver" these days too. He waves at everyone, smiles at them, etc. The other day as we were going into Target there was a woman coming out and he waved and smiled and she stopped and told me that he made her day which I thought was so sweet. He's pulling up and cruising the furniture and will occasionally act interested in walking on his own, but we're not in a hurry! (We're not pushing him over either but we're not rushing the walking - he's plenty fast when he crawls!) He's eating a few more table foods but still acts uninterested in lots of things, so we just keep offering and assume that, like with the introduction of cereal/baby food, he'll eat when he's ready. In the meantime he is certainly not starving.
I'm realizing I haven't done a great job of documenting his first year. I can't remember a lot of his "firsts"...we didn't even get a family picture on his birthday. BUT, we do have a lot of other pictures, and lots of fun memories of our first year with our firstborn! He's such a sweet, happy baby and we are definitely blessed beyond measure!
Happy Birthday Milo! I cant believe it is already time to celebrate 1st birthdays! I've recorded lots of firsts, but I was thinking the other day many years from now we won't care. We will be more interested in first days of school, first trip to camp, first whatever... rather than what day they crawled. :)
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