One Year Old

Cheeks is officially ONE!! I can no longer call him my little baby - he is now my big boy (Although he will ALWAYS be my little baby) :):)

The party was a success and we had a fantastic time. We had Elmo come out which the kids and parents loved! Cheeks - he wasn't so much loving Elmo.



Other than that part, he had a great time. It was one big playdate in our backyard - which is exactly what we wanted. It was stressful to put together, but in the end, so worth it.

A quick recap on Cheeks' progress in life:

• Over the weekend, he started waving hi! He opens and closes both hands - he gets so proud of himself!
• He still loves his books. He will turn the right side up if they are upside down.
• Still LOVES cars, trucks, and anything with wheels. He turns them over and plays with the wheels. Chuck the Dumptruck is his favorite.
• We have officially purchased our last canister of forumla - for the most part, Cheeks drinks whole milk now! (Sometimes with a bit of chocolate in it!!)
• He is a very loving little boy - he gives hugs and kisses to mama, mommy, and his books.
• Still furniture cruising - not ready to let go yet!
• We think he is saying "Book" and "Cat"

We have his one year dr appointment this morning - weight and height to follow in an edit to this post later!

8 more days

A year ago I was crying almost everyday because I was still pregnant. I HATED being pregnant. I was going through hell with a midwife who kept hemming and hawing daily about whether or not to induce me. Finally, after two weeks of that, I switched to an OB in the office who induced me 8 days from today last year.

One year later, I am no longer crying everyday. I come home from work to be greeted with the biggest of smiles from my two-tooth baby. We crawl on the floor together and play with his favorite Mickey Mouse basketball together. I get hugs and every so often, a kiss from my son. Those 9 months of pregnancy sure were worth the outcome almost a year later.

I cannot believe Cheeks is going to be 1 year old a week from tomorrow - where in the world has the year gone??

Roseola

Poor Cheeks has is first "real" illness. He had a fever that fluctuated between 99 and 103.2 for about 3 days. Now the fever is gone, and he is COVERED in a red, spotty rash. Doc took him to the doctor this morning and it turns out he has Roseola (I had it too as a baby). Nothing we can do for the poor guy until it goes away.

It's horrible when your baby is sick and you can't do anything about it :( Perhaps I will have to buy him a new book today. He sure does love his books.

Disney Play Date!

One of the excellent things about living in Central Florida is that we are so close to a children's wonderland - Walt Disney World. On Monday, 2/7, my friend A invited Doc, Cheeks, and I to join her playgroup at a play date at the Magic Kingdom. Of course we jumped to go! Cheeks enjoyed it well enough. Including Doc, Cheeks, and me, there were 10 mommies and 13 kids. A huge group to go to Disney, but oh so much fun!

The best part of the day to me was when we got home. Cheeks isn't yet walking, and he obviously couldn't crawl around the park, so he was relegated to his stroller for most of the day. Now Cheeks is not one to be confined! He needs his freedom to move and stretch and play. When we got home, he was SO excited to be free. He found his Chuck the Dumptruck (his favorite toy at the moment) and kept saying "AHHHHH" with a huge grin on his face. I wish I would have videotaped it - definitely a moment to remember :) I don't think Cheeks is ever going to get rid of Chuck - I can see him holding on to it for his children because he loves it so much. My child is a truck man!

11 Months!

Cheeks is 11 months old today! Has it really been that long? Seems like yesterday that I was itching to get home from the hospital with him. I wish I would have taken pictures throughout the year of him holding up a sign of how old he was at that point. Too late now - perhaps with the next baby.

Another exciting event happens today - Cheeks' future wife is being born via c-section at 12:00! My best friend from college is scheduled to have her little girl this afternoon - we joke that she will be Cheeks' future wife. I'll need to come up with a blogname for her. Haha - ok - she is being referred to as "Girl Baby" from now on. Story behind this - my best friend has a cat - she never named the cat - the cat is now referred to as "Girl Kitty". Girl Baby it is :) I am very excited to meet her later today!

This blog entry is all over the place, but wanted to document the funniest thing that he started doing. He has the Fisher Price Lil' Zoomers race track.
He knows how to put his cars in it and turn it on so they spin 'round and 'round. Lately, he has been putting everything and anything in it and then trying to turn it on - rings, cars, books, sippy cups, bottles, and the list goes on. If the track doesn't start to spin, he removes items one by one to see if it will start spinning. Very analytical! Maybe we have the next engineering wizard on our hands. The other night, when cleaning up, I found his bottle just sitting in the track. I got a good chuckle out of that :)

Pancake Pancake!!

After listening to this several times, I swear he is saying "pancake pancake"!!

Regression

So Cheeks has met the inevitable regression that I have been reading about on other blogs. My perfect night time sleeper has begun waking up for a bottle around 11:30 pm each night. At first, I thought it was just a one night set-back. We have gone three nights now where he will not even take a second glance at his pre-bedtime bottle, then starts crying at 11:30 because he is hungry. I am trying to nip this in the bud - suggestions welcome to anyone out there who may be reading this!