It is sooooOOO crazy that our baby boy is now one. It's so weird to see him acting more and more like a little person, with his own ideas and thoughts, and how he's starting to be able to act on those ideas and even to verbalize them. He officially says about three words, although on his birthday a week ago I would have probably said that he just said Dada and Mama. (Now he says "Itty" whenever he sees his stuffed kitty and it is the CUTEST thing in the world. Pretty sure he also tries to say Dane too but I'm not 100% on that yet.)
I am not a big birthday person! I don't do much to celebrate, on purpose. For Graham's birthday, we got a blow-up baby pool for us to use during the summer, and we bought some ball pit balls to fill it up with. Sadly, we got 200 balls and somehow they only filled up about 1/3 of the pool! But I'm glad we restricted ourselves to *only* 200 because they are all over the house as it is. (I knew we would put them up in the attic after not that long, and I think we may have already reached that point after a week.) We decorated the dining room the night before.
And the little birthday boy was so excited he woke up at 5 that morning! It was such a wonderful birthday surprise!
This is the money shot for the birthday morning. He only wore that hat for approximately 8.9 seconds but we got this cute picture and that's ALLLLLL we needed.
I went to the store after Graham woke us up at 5 and got doughnuts for his birthday breakfast. He approved.
We opened his few presents--just a couple of books from us in addition to the baby pool.
We spent the day doing things Graham likes, like pulling things out of cabinets and off shelves.
We spent the beautiful afternoon out in our backyard, in the sandbox and on the trampoline.
And then we had our friends the Hornes over for hot dogs on the grill and cupcakes. I made little smores cupcakes, with marshmallow frosting and graham crackers on top (in honor of our little Graham cracker). We didn't do a great job documenting the cake moment--I didn't really get a picture of him with the candle on his cake... but oh well.
We DID get a picture of the messy aftermath at least!
It was a perfect low-key first birthday for our boy. He is a sweetheart--a very opinionated one. In the last few weeks, he has decided he HATES getting his diaper changed, and it makes my life so difficult. I dread every single diaper change. He also likes to scream during meals quite often, when we're not bringing the food fast enough or exactly the right food he wants. But usually, he is a sweet, happy guy! He is much, much happier now that he can crawl and get around so quickly and easily--and I can't wait to see what he thinks about walking once he manages that. (Or maybe I can...) He has started to LOVE LOVE LOVE on his blankie and kitty and is always snuggling with them whenever he gets the chance. He also loves his daddy so, so much. My favorite thing they do is Graham likes to nibble on Tommy's chin and just laughs and laughs because Tommy's stubbly chin tickles his mouth.
Graham, we love you. Stop growing up. You're the cutest one-year-old that there ever was.
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