Our Little Man Is One!

Well, our little boy is a year old. What a wonderful year it has been! He is such a blessing from God and we love him so much. He had a great birthday party at our house the night of his birthday. He was the star of the show and he loved all of the attention. We sang the traditional Happy Birthday and then Aunt Kip found a song for us to sing to him. It was one of the highlights of the night. The other highlight was his smash cake. This was the first time he had ever had cake and ice cream. I think it is safe to say that he liked it. We weren’t sure just how much he liked sweets because he didn’t eat the fruit and desert baby food very well. He seemed to like it okay though. It was so much fun watching him and seeing his expressions. He got a lot of great gifts. We mainly asked for some boy toys like trucks, cars. Well he got several of those, along with a glove chair an overnight monogrammed bag,a big farmhouse and some gift cards for some clothes. We got him a little baseball, basketball and football gym.
Our friend "Aunt Gayla" (as the kids call her) made the cakes and they were absolutely darling and delicious! Thanks for this gift, "Aunt Gayla".
Here is a video of our special song. The quality of the video is not really great. You will hear us trying to come in a couple of times too early (pretty funny, we didn't have time to rehearse it) and yes, we are a CRAZY family! :)
Here is what we sang.
EMH has hit some milestones these last couple of months:
This is kind of long so if you are not a Grandparent then you may want to skip this. I wanted to write it for his baby book.

He is eating a lot of table food now and he really likes it. We probably won’t buy any more baby food because he will not eat it now after having our food. We can’t blame him. He has four teeth now and can pretty much eat anything we eat if it is small enough. We go to the doctor for his yearly check up next week.

He is babbling a lot and he has said his first word, “bye-bye”. It is so cute and he has such a sweet little voice. Not sure if we can classify this as a word but he is also saying “uh, oh”. We think it is great and of course, he’s the smartest little one year old boy in the world.

He is pointing to things and babbling about them. His favorite things are lights and fans. When he goes into a room, that is the first thing he looks for. His Granddaddy put him a fan up in his room. It is so cute. It has sports balls on it.

He is walking behind his walker now and can stand alone for a few seconds. He can walk very slowly when we hold his hand. It probably won’t be long before he is walking.

He can put his play phone next to his ear and pretend to be on the phone. It is so cute because the phone is usually upside down and turned around.

He no longer is taking a pacifier. He wasn’t completely attached to it so we decided to do without it for a week and see how he did. We could see that he was probably about to start getting more attached to it and thought it would be better now than when he was 2. We found that he missed it mostly when going to sleep. We rocked him more often for about a couple of weeks and he has been passy free for 4 weeks now. We like rocking him anyway. There is just nothing like that sweet little head being on your shoulder sleeping.

He has started sleeping with a stuffed animal. It’s a pig. :) With the passy being gone we thought he might like to have something to hold. When we ask him were his pig is he starts looking for it. We may have to come up with a better name other that just “pig”.

He has switched from a bottle to a sippy cup. He didn’t like it at first but just like everything with him he doesn’t put up much a fuss for long and is very easy going. He is doing good with it now.

He is starting to climb on things. He has climbed on some steps that are by our bed and on AEH's piano stool. AEH never was a climber and stayed in her crib a long time. This will be different for us.

He loves to try and get in all of the cabinets and drawers. He is not so much interested in what is in them as he is in just wanting to open and close them. We have child proofed all that are hazardous or that we don’t want him in.

As you can see EMH is changing and doing new things every day. This is such a fun age and he is such a fun little boy. We look forward to a lot more birthdays and fun times with our "little man"!

Here is a slide show of some pictures from his Birthday.