My ONE year old!

James turned ONE last Wednesday! I can't believe it's been a week already. The time has flown by. I see it's already been a month since I blogged last! I seriously was so busy finding ideas and putting things together for his party that I haven't had time to share it on here! Jenna, Mike's sister was in town from NY for the party as was Mike's aunt and 2 cousins from AZ. They were here all last week so we spent as much time as we could with them. We had a lot of fun seeing them.

His party! I had decided to do a dog theme because he absolutely loves dogs. He can spot one a mile away when we go for a walk. I tried to convince Mike to get him a dog for his birthday, but we decided we probably shouldn't get a puppy when we are going to have a newborn :) Too much to handle. Darn..hopefully soon though! So I went on pinterest and google and found different ideas that I wanted to do and ideas I knew I could actually handle. I will post pictures instead of trying to explain it all. The party was a success though. We had a really good turn out and everyone was so generous! We are blessed to have such great family and friends who love and support us. We are so thankful.

                                                             Invites Lyndi and I made

                                                            One of the food tables

                                    Cookies Ali and I (mostly ali) slaved over (that's a whole different story!)

                                                             Water bottle labels I made

                  His first present to open. And the shirt I made him (with some sewing help from grandma!)

                                                                Loved his lawnmower

                                                                           and train

                                                         getting ready for the cake!

                           (Picture of the cake to come!) Not too sure he likes having his hands in it!

                                                              But LOVED eating it!

I guess I should also report the things he is up to lately now that he's one! We went to the Dr. for his wellness check and it went good. He was 31'' and 23lbs 14oz. He's in the 90% for height and 50% for weight. And his head is 75% for circumference. They said he looked great. He did scream the entire time the dr. or nurse were in the room though. The second they left he knew he was safe..but he sure isn't a fan of seeing the Dr. They said that doesn't usually happen til 18 months, so he's ahead of the game there too. Not surprising. He's so smart.

*He's walking everywhere
*Signs milk consistently, has started to do all-done and cracker
*Taking 2 naps, each about an hour or hour 10 mins
*Sleeping from 8pm-8am!!
*Making so many different facial experessions and then doing them more since we are laughing!
*Pushing his toy cars around..loves it when I make the "vroom" sound for him
*LOVES being outside still. Has to have a stick in his hand...it freaks me out while he's walking around!
*talking so much..we can understand momma, dadda, yes, hi

He is at such a fun age. He has so much personality and he cracks us up. We love him so much and are so excited to watch him develop this coming year. Thanks for all of your support and love for us!!