First Birthday Party

On Labor Day we celebrated Micah's first birthday, that way more family could come. The decorations were up the food was finished. We were just waiting for this guy...

The cool birthday dude.

The weather was great, perhaps even a bit hot, but I won't complain. We had nothing fancy planned just watching him eat cake.

He start off excited.


He kept getting distracted by the balloons. He loved the balloons. It was the first thing he noticed when he came out. Look at his elbow though, covered in frosting. Haha.

We got both hands in making a mess.

The Farmer helped in get into it more, but still Micah hadn't actually put any of it in his mouth.

Micah started pushing all the cake off his tray. I guess he was done.

This was the close Micah got to eating the cake. He actually would spit it out when we tried to give him some. Crazy guy he doesn't like cake!

Now the cake is gone, on the ground or between his legs, or on his legs, or on his arms, or on his face, or on his belly, or in his hair....

We had a great time though and I was happy to have family come to celebrate Micah's first year. (Can a year really go by so quick?) We had cousins, aunts and uncles, grandparents and great grandparents come.

Four generations here.

Four generations here too.

Our little family with our obstinate one year old son.

12 Months

How can my baby be one!? How does a year go by so quick!? This year has been a great one. A lot of transitions, a lot of learning, and a lot of laughing (at ourselves and Micah). I don't want to get sentimental in this post, as it easy to get with time gone by.

So, Micah at 12 months.

Activities: Loves playing with balls, trucks, tractors and his gator, do we have a boy? Haha. He likes to play with the spices and balls, he will be a good helper in the kitchen. He likes to open and close doors. Micah really loves playing with his cousins Abby and Emma, and will miss them a lot when they move. He enjoys being outside to see and hear new things. Micah loves exploring, inside or outside and when he sees something he wants to go after he is determined (even if he can't have it, he'll let you know).

Development: Crawling and cruising. He will walk holding hands or a push toy. He doesn't stand by himself much, still pretty dependent on holding on to something, could be more out of habit though. Something for me to work on. No clear words yet, but we can tell when he is trying to repeat us. He does understand many words. Things like more, no touching, upstairs, cat, tractor, mouth, clap, crazy Micah, "where's Micah", ball, spoon, and more just to name a few. He has learned on to get off the couch, but we are still working on how to go downstairs, going up is not problem. He enjoys feeding himself and I plan to stop feeding him baby food as soon as I am out. Still no teeth. I tried to start to wean Micah today, it didn't go well, but we will try again tomorrow. I plan to drop one feeding a week. I have enjoyed nursing and I am so glad to have made it to a year. But it will be nice to not be tied to a clock as much when I am able to get away without Micah.

I know there is more I could include here, but no need to just go on and on.

365 Part 29

We are almost there.

Day 343Day 344....I missed another day. This puts me around 5 or 6 days that I've missed

Day 345Day 346Day 347Day 348Day 349Day 350Day 351Day 352Day 353Day 354Day 355Day 356

Pointing

Micah has learned how to point. And now he does it all the time! It is fun to see the connection as he points to something, we tell him what it is and he gets excited.

What is that over there?

Wow look at that!

No over there see it?!

Oh that is neat, what is that?

Don't you see it? Isn't that cool?