I can not believe that our little baby boy turned ONE on December 29th. I know every time I write a post reflecting on his life I always say, "Time Flies" or "It went by so fast" but it's amazing how true this is. I don't know where the last year went.
We wanted to do something special to celebrate the special day so we set up a party. Well let me rephrase that, we set up three parties. To make a long story short we have a very big and complex family situation (divorces, remarriages etc.) so getting everyone together for one big party is kinda hard, plus the fact that we live out of state and want to celebrate with our friends and neighbors here also added a wrench in plans. So we decided to use the same theme and decorations for all three parties and just do them at different times.
The first party was thrown at our house here in Oklahoma before all the holiday hub bub began. We had his party on December 19th. There were lots of friends and neighbors here to help Gage celebrate.
The next two parties were in Houston. One we had at my Dad's house with lots of family. It was great to have his Grandparents(on that side), Great Aunts, Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins around for the big event. This party was on December 28th, the day before his actual birthday.
The last of the birthday extravaganzas was on December 29th. We had another Winter ONEderland party at my Moms. She did an amazing job with all the decorations and food, and I know she worked so hard to put it all together. Thanks Mom! It was great to see lots of old friends with there precious little ones, and friends and neighbors I grew up with.
We are so very blessed to have all the family and friends that we do. We had such a great time celebrating our little guys special day. Can't wait for birthday number two.
I decided instead of posting a bunch of different pics, I would just put together a slide show of all three birthdays. They are in order of which they happened. (It's a little long but worth looking at. There are some great pics with him and his cakes.)
We go for Gage's one year well check in two weeks. (I know-a little late) so I will post all his stats then but for now I will leave you with a few one year milestones.
One Year milestones:
-Started walking three days after his first birthday.
-Eats pretty much all big boy food now. (Some of his favorites are peanut butter and jelly, whole wheat waffles, nutri grain bars, strawberries, bananas and soy yogurt.) However, he is not really picky and will at least try everything. (except does not like avocado)
-Only takes a bottle at night filled with 4 oz of soy milk. (Still has a slight lactose issue.-Breaks out into a rash, not near as bad as it use to be however.)
-Doctor said to start trying to introduce a little bit of milk products to see if it still effects him, so we have been giving him a little bit of cheese here and there and he seems to be doing ok with it.
-Loves his white blankie that Ms. Peggy made for him and when you go to pick him up from the crib in the morning or after nap time, he always has it in hand and has to bring it with him.
-We are starting to only let him use the passi during sleep and nap time, however it has been kinda hard to enforce this during the traveling and teething times that we have been going through lately.
-He loves books. He will pull all the books off his book shelf in his room and sit for a good 15 to 20 minutes just flipping pages. (Doesn't sound like a long time but to entertain a one year old for that long is amazing.)
-He will wave bye,bye and loves to point at things, especially lights. He will clap, raise his hands to get a high five and loves to play peek a boo. He has just started "dancing" a little when music is on. (His dancing consists of kinda bobbing up and down to the beat.) He says Dada like crazy but only says Mama when he is upset, or crying.
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