Happy birthday to you....happy birthday dear Liam...happy birthday to you!! Happy birthday to our big 1 yr old who turned 1 this weekend!! And all I can say is WOW, where has this year gone because I just can't believe you're 1 already. It has been a whirlwind of a year but the best year of my life.
Even though you're no longer our cute little cuddly baby, you've turned into quite the awesome lil' man. But I'm a little biased being your momma and all! I do miss the cuddling time you and I used to have as it doesn't happen as much as it used to but when it does I cherish every moment of it!
You're developing quite the personality and are becoming very independent. You're walking like crazy now and have been for the last few weeks so you don't like to be held very much anymore. You want to do it ALL BY YOURSELF! Which is fine because I want you to do it by yourself but when we're in the store or something like that you don't normally want to go the way I'm going so I put you in a cart instead. Luckily you still like to ride in the cart, I just have make sure not to get you to close to the shelves because you'll try to grab something if you get the chance. You love to explore and even look at me before you touch something to see if it's okay or not. You're a great listener and have learned when not to touch something. In our house we haven't really baby proofed except for locking some of the cabinets in the kitchen. We've taught you not to touch certain things like the picture frames on the book shelf and the dvds on the dvd rack. It's cute because when you're getting ready to touch something and we don't want you to touch it we make a loud noise saying uhuh and say "don't touch that", you'll look at us and shake your head no and then walk away. We were at great grandma Wynette's house and you were going to touch some stuff she had on the coffee table and I made a loud noise and told you not to touch it and you walked away.
You're definitely testing me more and more though. One evening when we were on our way home you were throwing a fit, half crying and half throwing a temper tantrum. So I turned and looked at you and told you "knock it off, you're fine", well you looked at me with this shocked look and stopped crying immediately. I think you were shocked by how stern I was. In turn you started to do all these cute faces and making cute noises to try and make me laugh. I had to keep facing forward so you wouldn't see me laughing. I can tell right now it's going to be hard to discipline you, you're already figuring out how to work it. I just need to keep telling myself...be strong...BE VERY STRONG!! Luckily you haven't needed very much discipline, its all about fun and exploring right now.
Now that you're walking around and can move around really easily you've graduated to more of the big boy toys. You love to crawl onto your rocking horse which makes me really nervous because you'll stand on the seat before you sit down. Then you can't quite figure out how to get down gracefully so to save you from crashing into the floor I put pillows all around you. But it's become more of a game where you'll tumble off the rocking horse into the pillows. I guess it's a good thing they're there. (It's so funny to watch so if I can I'll get it on video) You also like to sit on your 4-wheeler and push all the buttons and dance when it plays music. You're getting really good at getting on and off it and you love to push it around the living room. You also love your toy phones and mine and daddy's real phones but you don't get to play with ours very often. Occasionally we'll turn on some music on our phones and give it to you. You love to dance so you'll just hold the phone and dance. It's so cute! But everything you do is cute!! I usually try to have my camera with me but if I don't, I have my cellphone and try to capture as many cute moments as I can. You just never know!
A big change this month is you've switched to whole milk instead of formula. We still have some formula left so we'll give it to you ever now and again but you mostly get milk. It was an easy transition and not sure if you noticed the difference. If you did, I didn't notice.
You also got to try some mini red velvet cupcakes that I made for your birthday celebration at daycare on Thursday. The ladies there said you loved your cupcake and devoured the whole thing. You love sweets though, that's never been a problem with you. You also got to wear a birthday crown at daycare that day. You only wore it for a little bit but they gave it to us to take home and you'd wear it on and off pretty much the whole night.
You had your "1" year check-up yesterday. It went pretty good. You weigh 20lbs and are 30" long. You're about average on heighth and below average on your weight but the doctor said it's nothing to worry about. We found out you have a minor ear infection but it was enough that he prescribed some more antibiotics. Since it was minor we didn't ask about tubes but if you keep getting ear infections we may ask next time. You also had to have three shots, two vaccines and a flu shot. The first shot in the leg you didn't cry at all, the second in the other leg you winced and really started to cry, and were still crying when he did the final one in your arm. I winced and even gasped as you moved in pain on the second shot but I didn't realize it until daddy said something a little later. I think I need to get better at hiding my reactions when you are in pain or get hurt or I'm going to make you cry more! The good thing is you bounced back pretty quickly.
Happy 1st birthday sweet little boy!! We love you very much and look forward to many more special moments.
Love,
Momma
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