Dress - Up

Lately you like to play with my shoes and sandals and try to wear them and walk around in them. The ones with the heels are the funniest to watch you with and you only make it a couple steps in them. You also love playing and wearing my long necklaces that I wear sometimes. Tonight you just had to have my necklace and tired out my sandals and I was able to snap a few pictures! (couple more pics here)

(and yes.. that is how dirty you get your shirt when you are at daycare!)

Rockin' Away

There is a little rocking chair in Sam and Jake's room and from the time you could walk you would go over to it and try to climb in it. I would sit you in it and you loved just sitting in there and rocking. Now you can get into climb up into yourself and you just love rocking in it! Within the past couple weeks you can now climb up onto the big rocking chair in your room. I use to use this chair when feeding you your bottles at night. Now you climb right up there and just rock away, you love it! You rock so hard that you move the chair forward just a little bit each time! You must get this from your Daddy, he has always been a big fan of rocking chairs! I took this little video of you today...

Blankie

Ever since you were only a couple months old you have had to have your blankie. Your blankie.... a white burp cloth/cloth diaper. We used them when you when had to burp you and we always carried them around in case you spit up. But you have clung onto them and now you always have to have one. You drag it around all over the place. We have several of them and so every night before bed you get a nice clean one. But if you happen to find an extra one laying around you get all excited and grab that one too. The more you have the better!
























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Mr. Clean #2

As so it has begun with you too (see Mr. Clean #1 here)... my cleaning has rubbed off on you and just like your brother you fight me for the swiffer whenever I bring it out. You have not quite figured out that it needs to stay on the floor, but I am sure you will have it done pat in no time!
























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New Shoes!!!

You refuse to keep socks on! And so, I usually always have shoes on you (you have not figured out how to take the shoes off yet). So far, I just have gotten you some basic crib shoes. But the other day I ordered you your first pair of Nikes and got them in the mail today! They are too cute! And you seem to like them too, at least you were checking them out and smiling! Oh, I love little shoes... and now off to check the latest Robeez....

what is going on???

Of course being only 13 months this Christmas, you really had no idea what was going on. Sam barged into your room and woke you up, jumping up and down. Jacob was soon to follow in your room and before you could blink your eyes, I was changing your diaper and carrying you downstairs for the fun to begin! At first you were kinda excited... it looked like fun to rip paper and WOW there was a toy under that paper! The first thing your opened was your Handy Mandy toolbox and you loved it right away! You were very persist for Daddy to get the toy out of the box so you could play with it. And that was it. You had no interest in opening any other presents at all. You wanted to play with your new toy. You also were very interested in Lily's new dollhouse. It was about as big as you and it had lots of pieces! Jacob tried to help you open some more presents, but you really were not too interested. I opened your Clipo's sets and got them out of the box for you, but you were only interested in those for about 10 seconds. You had a lot of fun walking around in all the paper and checking out what everyone was doing. I bet next year though you will open all your presents in the time it took you to open one this year!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Today we celebrated your first birthday at home. We just did something very simple... cake, some cupcakes and presents. Jacob and Sam got you a YoGabbaGabba dancing doll. You like trying to dance with it. And you also got a new V-Tech Train and a penguin just like Sam's. You are always taking Sam's penguin and so you seemed really happy to have your own now. You really seemed to like your cupcake and got it all over! Here are some pictures!

One Year Stats

Weight - 25lbs 10 ozs (90%)
Height - 31 1/2 inches (90%)
Head - 47.2cm (90%)

yes... you are on the big side. but at least it is all consistent.

First Birthday - Party with Mommy's Family

Today we celebrated your birthday with Mommy's side of the family. You got lots of gifts and had a lot of fun. You were even really good about opening presents! Someone would get the packages started and you had no problem ripping the rest of the paper off! Sam also loved helping you unwrap and play with your new toys. Unfortunately once cake time came you were starting to get kinda crabby and maybe ready for a nap. But you played around with the cake and with Grandpa's help you got a little messy!

All the pictures are here!

First Hair Cut!

I really didn't want to get your hair cut. But it was getting long (every now and then you got called a girl) and you were not sitting still long enough for me to cut anymore. You had the cutest little curls in the hair and I just didn't want to snip them off. So went went to the local hair salon, Sam went first (supposedly to show you how the "big boys" get their hair cut). That didn't go very well, because Sam was not in the mood to get his hair cut. And so it took a lot of bribes to get him up in the chair and sit still through his hair cut. Next it was your turn. You thought the cape was cool and checked that out for a few minutes. And that was about it, the lady got a few minutes of stillness from you and after that you were done. Needless to say I had to hold you for the lady to finish up. It didn't help that the lady we got was either new or didn't have the patience for kids, because she keep saying, "I need him to look this way" or "have him look down." Um, I really don't think that is going to happen to a one year old! But in the end, you got your hair cut and it is shorter than what I wanted, but at least you look like a boy again!

The fun experience in photos!