One Year Old & Mother's Day

There's our little (ok, not so little) one year old. Thomas celebrated his first birthday Wednesday, May 6. The celebration started the Saturday before at his birthday party. We had a great time at Lake Wheeler cooking out, eating cake and enjoying friends and family. Thomas had a great time getting passed around from grandma to grandma with others in between. He wasn't terribly interested in his cake. He needed some help to get into it and once he figured it out he only ate a few small bites and then wanted down. Oh well...

On his birthday we celebrated with a trip to the doctor (I now know that this is not a great way to spend his birthday). He did really well, but shots are not a very nice present for anyone, let alone a one year old. Thomas is now 24 lbs, 1 oz (70%) and 32.5 in (>97%). His head is still off the charts too. Nothing else too interesting came from this appointment. No news is good news, I guess. He is happy and healthy!

A couple of exciting changes:

-Thomas now sits facing forward in his carseat (for all the non-parents out there...this is VERY exciting!)

-He has been drinking whole milk for about a week now and seems to like it.

-Tonight is the first night that he's gone down without a bottle of formula and I haven't heard a peep so......NO MORE FORMULA!!

-He is officially a walker now. He has been waddling around for a while, but just yesterday decided to make walking his primary mode of transportation. Now he walks everywhere!

-He is quite vocal these days. Nothing that we can understand yet, but he's getting there. He tries very hard to mimic our words, especially "balloon".

Speaking of balloons - he LOVES them. We went to the grocery store the other day and before we were fully in the cart and in the door, he saw the balloons at the checkouts and started pointing and saying "buh buh buh".

This past weekend was a busy one but a great one! On Saturday, Thomas' friend Ryan had his first birthday party. We played and enjoyed cupcakes, yummy strawberries and great friends! My mom's birthday was Friday so we went to her house for supper on Saturday night to celebrate. We had a great dinner and watched a really short but strong storm roll by.

On Mother's Day, Shawn got up with Thomas so that I could "sleep in" (which, these days, means that I lay in bed awake but lazy for a bit longer than usual). Sunday afternoon after church, we went straight to Mom's for a mother's day lunch with family - Mom, Gaga, Chip, Cissie, Devin, Whitney, Paul and Carrie. What a great time we had! We cooked out burgers, had lunch, played outside, relaxed, sang (thanks Carrie). It was such a wonderful Mother's Day, getting to see family that we don't get to see often enough. Also, it was very cool to have 4 generations together!

Overall, May has turned out to be a great month already! I cannot believe that our little boy is one. It still is just so hard to believe that I'm a mom. I am so blessed to have such a wonderful husband and such a sweet little boy. Here's to many years to come and lots of memories to make!