Here you are awaiting your birthday cake at your party last weekend…
(More pictures from the party & from the past year will be coming soon!)
Stats: You weigh 21.5 lbs and are 31 inches long…right about at the 50th percentile for both height & weight. You used to be on the bigger side (90th percentile for height, 75th for weight…but you have slowed down since your 9 month checkup). You have just the right amount of baby chunk and I just can’t get enough of it!
Teeth: Even though I swear you came out of the womb drooling and didn’t stop until you were about 7 months old, you did not get your first tooth until you were 8 months old. Once the first bottom one popped through, you had the second bottom one and all four top front teeth within weeks and haven’t gotten any more since then. You manage to bite & chew just about anything with those 6 teeth, though!
Feeding: You have always been a great eater! I made all of your baby food purees until you finally got some teeth and could try more solids. Your favorites were sweet potatoes, any kind of squash, bananas, & peas. You went through a short stent of pickyness about a month ago where you would not eat any of the foods you used to love, but thankfully that seems to be over. Now you eat or at least try almost anything! Just over the last week you have developed a HUGE appetite and we can’t seem to feed you enough. You still love your sweet potatoes & bananas, but your tastes have expanded and now you like olives, green peppers, guacamole, pickles, cheese, pasta, chicken, any kind of bean, most vegetables, any kind of fruit, oatmeal, and of course your cheerios. You tried your first taste of red meat the other day and loved that also.
Even though I really wanted to nurse you for a year, we made it 10 months and you didn’t even seem to notice when we stopped. Even though in many ways I was ready to be done, I still miss it. Over the last month we’ve been slowly trying to introduce you to regular milk and you totally refused it up until last week when you suddenly decided it wasn’t so bad.
Awesome things you’re doing right now: You have quite the personality and we think just about everything you do is cute – even when you’re bad. I’m sure this will change once you hit 2 
Some of the newest things you are doing lately are sticking out your tongue, initiating peek-a-boo all by yourself, doing other random things to make us laugh, having full on conversations with yourself (in baby language of course) and just giggling out of the clear blue at who knows what.
My favorite things that you do are suck your thumb, give kisses, clap, make funny faces, and wave. I love it when you wave for two reasons: you just have the cutest wave and you almost always flash a huge smile at the person you are waving to. You wave to people you know all the time…but there is something extra sweet when you wave to complete strangers.
Much to everyone’s surprise you are not walking yet. You hit all of your other “baby milestones” pretty early, so we just expected the same when it came to walking. You are very mobile – and have been that way since you started crawling at 6 months – but you don’t have an interest in taking more than a couple steps at a time and realize that you can get there faster if you crawl or cruise the furniture. By far your favorite mode of transportation is in my arms (or baby sling), though, and I don’t mind one bit I know there will come a day when you don’t want to be held, so I’m fine with soaking in all of the cuddle time I can get right now.
Your favorite things: baths, mommy, remotes, phones, playing with Opie, soft blankets & lovies, and of course food
Obstacles we’ve overcome: I have to say that we have been extremely blessed because all in all you are and have always been a VERY easy baby. We have never had to deal with colic, acid reflux, allergies, breastfeeding or food problems, major sleep issues, developmental delays, or hardly even sickness. You didn’t get your first fever until you were 9 months old and even that was a very mild one that didn’t really slow you down. I consider your first “real” sickness the virus & ear infection you just had a couple weeks ago.
Of course we have had our fair share of rough days (and nights) here and there, but when everything is put into perspective, I realize that we have had it pretty easy when the hardest obstacles we’ve had to overcome were your hatred of the car seat & sleeping on your belly…
- For the first couple weeks of your life you were a terrible sleeper. We tried everything and nothing would satisfy you. I spent the first 3 weeks sleeping on the couch with you because we were getting up to nurse so often anyway and the only way you would sleep was on my chest. Once we finally realized that 1) you actually hated being swaddled so tight in a blanket and 2) you hated sleeping on your back, you were a new man and a great sleeper. We rebelled against the “always make your baby sleep on their back” rule and let you sleep on your stomach…and you started sleeping through the night when you were only 8 weeks old.
- The other thing you hated from day 1 was the car seat. You screamed bloody murder every time you were in it – and it didn’t matter if our ride was 5 mins or 30 mins. I never could figure out why other than I think it had to do with you being on your back in that position because you never liked the swing or bouncy seat either. And the only way you would tolerate the stroller was if you were sleeping in it (on your belly of course). Unfortunately there was no easy fix to the car seat problem like there was to the sleeping issue. I refused to let the screaming stop me from going places, though, in fact I made it a point to go somewhere almost every day hoping you would eventually get used to the car seat. After 5 months you FINALLY decided that the car seat was not the worst thing in the world
We think you are the cutest, sweetest, and most loveable baby on the planet. Of course we are a little biased Having you in our lives for the past year has changed us in so many ways…and all for the better I must say. Even though you don’t realize it, I think you have taught us more about life, about love, and about sacrifice than we will ever teach you. We love you more than you will ever know and thank God for you everyday.
Love ~ Mama & Daddy
Stats: You weigh 21.5 lbs and are 31 inches long…right about at the 50th percentile for both height & weight. You used to be on the bigger side (90th percentile for height, 75th for weight…but you have slowed down since your 9 month checkup). You have just the right amount of baby chunk and I just can’t get enough of it!
Teeth: Even though I swear you came out of the womb drooling and didn’t stop until you were about 7 months old, you did not get your first tooth until you were 8 months old. Once the first bottom one popped through, you had the second bottom one and all four top front teeth within weeks and haven’t gotten any more since then. You manage to bite & chew just about anything with those 6 teeth, though!
Feeding: You have always been a great eater! I made all of your baby food purees until you finally got some teeth and could try more solids. Your favorites were sweet potatoes, any kind of squash, bananas, & peas. You went through a short stent of pickiness about a month ago where you would not eat any of the foods you used to love, but thankfully that seems to be over. Now you eat or at least try almost anything! Just over the last week you have developed a HUGE appetite and we can’t seem to feed you enough. You still love your sweet potatoes & bananas, but your tastes have expanded and now you like olives, green peppers, guacamole, pickles, cheese, pasta, chicken, any kind of bean, most vegetables, any kind of fruit, oatmeal, and of course your cheerios. You tried your first taste of red meat the other day and loved that also.
Even though I really wanted to nurse you for a year, we made it 10 months and you didn’t even seem to notice when we stopped. Even though in many ways I was ready to be done, I still miss it. Over the last month we’ve been slowly trying to introduce you to regular milk and you totally refused it up until last week when you suddenly decided it wasn’t so bad.
Awesome stuff you’re doing right now:
You have quite the personality and we think just about everything you do is cute – even when you’re bad. I’m sure this will change once you hit 2 J
Some of the newest things you are doing lately are sticking out your tongue, initiating peek-a-boo all by yourself, doing other random things to make us laugh, having full on conversations with yourself (in baby language of course) and just giggling out of the clear blue at who knows what.
My favorite things that you do are suck your thumb, give kisses, clap, make funny faces, and wave. I love it when you wave for two reasons: you just have the cutest wave and you almost always flash a huge smile at the person you are waving to. You wave to people you know all the time…but there is something extra sweet when you wave to complete strangers.
Much to everyone’s surprise you are not walking yet. You hit all of your other “baby milestones” pretty early, so we just expected the same when it came to walking. You are very mobile – and have been that way since you started crawling at 6 months – but you don’t have an interest in taking more than a couple steps at a time and realize that you can get there faster if you crawl or cruise the furniture. By far your favorite mode of transportation is in my arms (or baby sling), though, and I don’t mind one bit J I know there will come a day when you don’t want to be held, so I’m fine with soaking in all of the cuddle time I can get right now.
Your favorite things:
baths, mommy, remotes, phones, playing with Opie, soft blankets & lovies, and of course food
Obstacles we’ve overcome:
I have to say that we have been extremely blessed because all in all you are and have always been a very easy baby. We have never had to deal with colic, acid reflux, allergies, breastfeeding or food problems, major sleep issues, developmental delays, or hardly even sickness. You didn’t get your first fever until you were 9 months old and even that was a very mild one that didn’t really slow you down. I consider your first “real” sickness the virus & ear infection you just had a couple weeks ago.
Of course we have had our fair share of rough days (and nights) here and there, but when everything is put into perspective, I realize that we have had it pretty easy when the hardest obstacles we’ve had to overcome were your hatred of the car seat & sleeping on your belly…
For the first couple weeks of your life you were a terrible sleeper. We tried everything and nothing would satisfy you. I spent the first 3 weeks of your life sleeping on the couch with you because we were getting up to nurse so often anyway and the only way you would sleep was on my chest. Once we finally realized that 1) you actually hated being swaddled so tight in a blanket and 2) you hated sleeping on your back, you were a new man and a great sleeper. We rebelled against the “always make your baby sleep on their back” rule and let you sleep on your stomach…and you started sleeping through the night when you were only 8 weeks old.
The other thing you hated from day 1 was the car seat. You screamed bloody murder every time you were in it – and it didn’t matter if our ride was 5 mins or 30 mins. I never could figure out why other than I think it had to do with you being on your back in that position because you never liked the swing or bouncy seat either. And the only way you would tolerate the stroller was if you were sleeping in it (on your belly of course). Unfortunately there was no easy fix to the car seat problem like there was to the sleeping issue. I refused to let the screaming stop me from going places, though, in fact I made it a point to go somewhere almost every day hoping you would eventually get used to the car seat. After 5 months you FINALLY decided that the car seat was not the worst thing in the world J
We think you are the cutest, sweetest, and most loveable baby on the planet. Of course we are a little biased J Having you in our lives for the past year has changed us in so many ways…and all for the better I must say. Even though you don’t realize it, I think you have taught us more about life, about love, about sacrifice than we will ever teach you. We love you more than you will ever know and thank God for you everyday.
This picture was taken the other day on my iphone…and I just love it.
Not to discount our many blessings or the joyous occasions we have had in the midst of a hard couple of months…but this has been a rough year so far! We are just now starting to get back to normal after a nasty stomach virus followed by an ear infection (for Corbin) and a sinus infection (for Donny) hit us last Monday. Whatever we got was highly contagious because the friends we hung out with the weekend before (where we think we came into contact with the virus) had it, then my whole family got sick after my mom watched Corbin last Friday so I could make it to work at least 1 day. Yuck! Thankfully, though, this is the first time that Corbin has been really sick in his life…he’s had two minor fevers that didn’t really slow him down much…but this time my poor baby got hit hard. He has been so sweet & cuddly, though, which has been nice
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