You Only Turn One Once: Part 2

The best laid plans man, the best laid plans. I was all set up to upload these pictures and have them all posted for you last Thursday, but come Wednesday, the whole family came under a sick spell. First it was Adam, then the rest of the house followed suit and are still fighting the thing off. Luckily, when we took him to the doctor (The MUSC Pediatrics After Hours Care in North Charleston is great by the way), our doc assured us that it seemed to just be a viral upper respiratory tract infection and shouldn't need any antibiotics. Of course, he also assured us we probably had another week until the thing was completely done...so we'll all be getting over it for another good while.

As far as the birthday party, many huge THANK YOUs to everyone who helped get everything ready and everyone who was able to come out and be there to celebrate with us. Sure, he won't remember it, but Thomas and I always will, and with his guestbook, his cards, his gifts, and the pictures, that's a ton of residual love he's going to feel throughout his life. He's a lucky kid to have all of y'all. Oh, and if you couldn't come, we love you too and know you were there in spirit.

I'm still a bit under the weather, so I'll be just a few more sentences, but, as you can see, the theme was Dr. Seuss. We made themed foods, decorations, and he had two great cakes made by his Meme. The cake he had I made, and you can read more about it here if you're into vegan desserts (we're not vegan, for the most part anyway, but I didn't want to risk him having a reaction to something at his party/on his birthday). He loved his gifts, all of the attention, and really just being mobil enough to crawl around and see everyone.

If you want to know more, shoot me a comment, I'm just pooped right now, but I'll get it next time. Also, if you want me to print out a message from you to stick into the guestbook if you couldn't come, let me know down there too. (Oh and I'll try to pool some more pics together before next time too.)

Cheers everyone and Much Love!

You Only Turn One Once

Last week, update night landed right on Adam's very first birthday, so here I am just a little behind (Tonight, his actual birthday; Thursday his party)

On Thursday, I did my best to make sure he had a pretty happy day (even if he didn't understand why). I sang him Happy Birthday several times, which he loved, and did what I could to play with him, though I had a ton to get done for dinner, his cupcakes/cake, and just everything else.

Thomas had work that night, so once he got home and ate his dinner, we all gathered around and sang Happy Birthday to Adam, with one solitary, but festive, candle lit on his cupcake (I figured I should wait until his party to give him the larger one). Then I blew the flame out (I mean, what did you expect) and handed him his first ever cupcake. He's never been a messy baby, if he could help it, so he just kind of methodically ate what he could and then threw the rest on the floor....which was promptly devoured by the dog.

We wanted to wait to give him most of the gifts until his birthday, but we couldn't not let him have at least one on his actual day, so we went ahead and gave him the activity box thing from us. He also got two books from our neighbor, so he was pretty happy.

There wasn't much left to the night, so we just let him play until he was tuckered out and fell asleep on me. Overall, I think it turned out pretty nicely for him; something low-key to practice before he was the center of attention for a much larger crowd on Saturday.

Well, I know you're waiting for pictures, so here you go!


Oh, and by the way, he's a lot more aware even since then. He's clapping his hands and stomping his feet during If You're Happy and You Know It, following simple commands, and just exploring all that he can throughout the house. It's like he turned one and bam! Pretty soon and he'll be walking and running around.

Just One More Week!

Yep, in just one week, little Addy is going to be a crazy one-year-old. Everything is going really well. He's not walking yet, but he's definitely getting ready to try. He'll do the daring let-go-of-his-support-and-try-to-stand thing, but he can only stay put for about a second right now. I'm sure it won't be long until that changes though. He's scooting right along in his walker and is ready to get out and explore everything (and I mean EVERYTHING).

I'm sorry for not posting last week by the way; I'm hoping to start posting twice a week for a month this or next week.

 Sorry to cut this short, but it is Valentines after all. I hope all of y'all are doing well and I'll be back soon!

We're Almost to February Again!

We're getting closer to the one year mark! So crazy! There's nothing really new this week (though there is a pretty awesome video of little man scooting around in his walker from last week that Thomas is still holding captive on his phone; we'll rescue it soon hopefully).

11 months

Hey Everyone,

Shockingly, I didn't get any new pictures of Addy  this week, but you're in luck, because I have just a few from Mel, who answered my query from last week for pictures you might have hidden away and want to share.

I love these. Thanks Mel! :)

Other than that, the kids doing well. He's been chowing down on some sliced and steamed sweet potatoes and some fresh spinach applesauce and just loving life. 

Sorry for the short post, but I'm super tired and ready to hit the hay. I hope this finds everyone well. 

Night!

By the way, if anyone had issues looking at the picture story on the last post, Mel pointed out to me that it wasn't working, so now it's set to public and should be good. Just writing this for people following the blog in a blogroll or something like that, so you'll get this update automatically.

Belated Happy Holidays

Hey everyone,

I hope you're not too angry with me for staying quiet for so long. The holidays were just so jammed pack that there was just no time to update this thing (and then I needed a week to recoup and get back into the swing of things around the house after being at my grandmothers and out and about so much).

To make it up to y'all (and to my 99 in 999 list), I'm debating over having two updates a week for a month or having a week where I blog every weekday of that week. I haven't decided which one I want to do, but I guess we'll all find out soon, won't we?

We had a fantastic first Christmas for Adam. He did get a ton of cool gifts, but most importantly, he got to be surrounded by so many loving family members and friends day in and day out. He's truly a blessed little guy to have so many people in his life that care about him. Thank you all.  We're very thankful for all that you all do.

As far as pictures, I have way too many to post here in one blog, so here's a new thing I'm playing around with. I hope it works!

(P.S., if you have some pictures I didn't get, please let me know! I'm sorry if I missed out on some people. I'm only just getting used to having a camera on me again and so I forgot it several places. If you have anything you wanted added, just comment or email them straight to me and I'll make sure they get on there.)

Cheers!