The BIG ONE!

This dude is a party animal! By the end of the weekend he was running on fumes because we celebrated for 3 days that we ALL made it through the first year :) Before we get to the party pictures here's some fun facts about this one year old...

• Favorite word is uh-oh
• He will blow you a kiss if you ask him to and a few weeks ago at the doctor's and he blew a kiss to the nurse as she left the room…first time I ever saw him do that - really cute!
• Gives his stuffed animals hugs and says “ahhh”
• Points at my nose and says “nah”, then immediately goes for a quick swipe at my face...we need to work on that one :)
• Loves kicking the ball around the house and will walk over and kick it when we ask him to...maybe he'll be a natural at soccer...or at least that's what Daddy is hoping for :)
• When you start singing “Ring around the Rosie” he either turns in circles by himself or grabs your hands to turn with him, but we usually don’t make it through the entire song before he falls down (that’s his favorite part of course!)
• He loves music and will dance to anything…for anyone who ever saw my Dad dance he has clearly inherited his moves. I’m sure my Dad is looking down on us smiling because we always made fun of him about his signature bend the knees slightly and sway back and forth dance move and it now lives on! Tyler is making his Pop Pop proud!
• Uses anything and everything as a drum (future Tommy Lee ha ha! Side note: I think Tommy Lee is totally hot, but that's a blog post in itself!)
• Has 8 teeth and possibly a ninth coming in, but we no longer stick fingers in his mouth to check because we don't like getting bit
• Likes to give hugs to his friends at school. There’s only one girl in the class and his teachers tell us he likes to hug her (we're thinking of skipping the normal things you teach your kid and moving straight to teaching pick up lines).
• Last week he had a head on collusion (literally) with his best friend Wyatt (we're told the follow each other everywhere). They went to hug and hit heads instead…resulting in both of them falling to the ground and being sent home with injury reports - the treatment listed was TLC
• Has mastered how to drink a Capri Sun while we hold it. When every other kid at the party is drinking one, the one year old is sure to want in on it :)
• AND...he has switched to drinking milk and no longer takes a bottle! We weren't really pushing for him to be off his morning bottle, but our nieces were here all weekend and both mornings he didn't want his bottle so we took it as a cue and we're DONE!

Friday birthday!

Taking Sugar cookies in for his class, but he sat on them
before we even left the house.

Enjoying the cookie - I'm told they all loved it!


Party with my sister and the girls. He had A LOT of sugar that day so the mini banana muffin was his cake - the real deal was coming the next day :)


Opening presents


Testing out a new toy


Tyler's other best friend, Barclay the dog, who lives across the street
brought him over a birthday card.


Getting all cleaned up for his party the next day



Saturday - Party day!

My cousin made this super awesome cake! Thanks April!


The only shot we have of his birthday shirt it says
"Does this shirt make me look 1"




Digging in! He was a little hesitant at first, but then got the hang of it. The picture below does not look like he was hesitant :)












The kids had a blast sleigh riding in the backyard


Not enjoying the birthday hat


Family picture at the end of the night we were all ready for bed!


I left him in his birthday suit for about 30 seconds at the end of the night and he felt the need to mark his territory on the bottom of our couch :)



Sunday - relax!

We decided to go sleigh riding and play outside...it was a big hit!