Happy 1st Birthday Sweet Boy!

Can you believe it has been a year? It feels like yesterday that you came charging (literally) into this world. It has been such a whirlwind of a year...moving to NC when you were only 8 weeks old, meeting Daddy for the first time at 10 weeks, getting Tortocisous and going to Physical Therapy for 4 weeks, two trips to South Carolina, two trips to Maryland, Daddy leaving again, the list goes on and on.....Everything that has happened in this past year has been better because you are here, thank you for being such a sweet boy!

Your 1 Year Stats:

Height 31.8 inches (off the charts)

Weight 23.8 pounds (75% percentile)

Six Teeth

The doctor always told me you would be tall but up until know I was a little skeptical....You are the height of a 18 month old!!! You eat none stop but because you are soooooo very active you are pretty thin. This last month has been a rough one for you, being sick most of it so Dr. M thinks that your weight gain was slightly off because of that and you will probably be much heavier the next time he sees you. As of now we are sticking to Soy milk because you had a funny reaction to whole milk when we tried it but Dr. M also told us that we could try again in a month and see how you do, Mommy is just excited that you are finally done breastfeeding, a year is long enough!!!

He was also surprised to see how well you are walking and talking. During the whole examine you keep telling him Bye, Bye. You were also able to tell him JJ and yes, he was quite impressed. The fact that you are walking so well also impressed Dr. M. You can bend down and stand right back up without using your hands to steady yourself and the fact that you are pretty much running was all noted too.

Daddy and I decided that there would be no shots for you this time (we are waiting for your MMR and chicken pox vaccines) so all and all you had a great report!

Happy 1st Birthday Sweet Boy! We love you more than you will ever know and couldn't be more proud of the little boy that you have become. Here is to another great year ahead!!!