Dear James,
Happy Birthday to our sweet baby... now almost a toddler! Where did the year go? It seems like just yesterday I was taking a long walk in hopes of jump starting my labor so that I would get to see your precious face for the first time. It was that same day that we headed to the hospital awaiting your arrival! You have grown leaps and bounds in your first year and accomplished so much...
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Meeting you for the first time! You were 8lb 9oz and 20.5"
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| My 1 year old boy! You are now 26 lbs and 32"! |
You have been very busy since those first days. As you come closer and closer to walking you have become quite the little explorer. You are a boy in every way and we love it! You navigate your way around the house through a combination of walking along walls and furniture and crawling and you have mastered climbing up the stairs... thanks to daddy:) I can't take my eyes off of you for a moment as you are sure to be getting into a drawer, closing a door on your fingers, pulling a lamp by the cord from a table or getting into a waste basket and unraveling the toilet paper. When you are awake there is no longer a dull moment! You are eating mostly table foods and stills some chunky purees. You also still love your baba and take four bottles of milk a day. You are quite the persnickety one... it must be warm or you will not drink it! We are working on the sippy cup and have no doubt you will master that soon. You are still napping twice a day and sleeping 10-12 hours a night. Your newest game is to shove your lovey in and out of the bars of your crib and down into the bumper. Unfortunately that often means lovey ends up on the floor and then you cry hysterically until someone comes in to retrieve it for you. We love that you love your bed and you also play well independently. I typically put you in your playroom after breakfast and take a few minutes to clean the kitchen. I love to listen to you chat and sing and usually find you looking out the window or flipping the pages of your books... a favorite past time. You talk all day long and are getting close to saying some actual words! The past few days we have heard a lot of "uh oh" and it is quite entertaining to watch you try to get the sounds out. You are too cute!
My sweet baby James... you are more loved than you will ever know. You are simply a joy in our lives. As a celebration of our first year with you we invited family and friends to share in the fun while we hosted a carnival themed birthday party in the backyard! Aunt Rini even made the trip all the way from Georgia with your seven cousins! It was a very special afternoon.
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| We had a concessions stand with your cake, cupcakes and all kinds of other treats! |
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| We had a photo booth! |
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| Chloe and Max in the photo booth with funny hats! |
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| Your cupcakes with fun toppers! |
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| A year in photos so we could see how you had grown! |
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| Your new chair from Nana and Pop |
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| We decked out your high chair with balloons and a banner! |
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| You smasher cake decorated with love by Mama! |
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| When we first started to sing happy birthday you were a little unsure... |
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| After a tentative first taste... |
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| You went all in... |
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And loved it!!
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It was a fun time! By 7:00 you were done and I put you to bed. Then I opened your gifts with the help of a few other little ones! We are so blessed to have such wonderful family and friends who came to share in our joy. It was a very special day and we look forward to many more years of birthday fun!
Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad;
let the sea resound, and all that is in it;
let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them.
Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy;
they will sing before the LORD...
~Psalm 95:12
