Tuesday, July 27, 2010

The BIG first birthday!!

My little fellow has turned one! How exciting to know that a new parent can actually make it through the first year and still have a bit of sanity remaining!! While this has been a trying year for me in the sleep department, I have enjoyed every waking (literally every waking moment!) watching my little man grow, and grow, and grow a little more. There have been so many milestones in this first year of life. I mean, 12 months ago he was a little ball of flesh that just kind of moaned, ate, pooped, slept, and started all over again. Now, he is running all over, trying to say words, pushing toys around the house, sleeping some, eating like he is always starved, making friends, and the list goes on and on.

One of the most fun parts of watching this little man grow is seeing how his personality is developing and the way in which he is defining who "wake" is. I know this too will be a life long progression and there will be parts of it that are difficult, but for now...it is pretty darn cool. Wake is becoming Wake.

We had a blast throwing his first birthday party last weekend, July 24th. I think the adults had just as much fun as the kids! Wake was not at all scared to dig into his monkey cake and make a huge mess. It was so cute to watch his cake attack!

We are heading on our first vacation soon to St.Maarten. This will be wake's first time on a plane. This could go a couple of ways...we shall see! Luckily, the entire family is on the plane so there are many hands to hold him and entertain him. And, Nana will be on the plane and she is usually pretty good with keeping him content! I am sooooo looking forward to this trip. I need a little sun and relaxing after this year!!!

July 4th Weekend

We spent July 4th weekend out at Kiawah with the Freeman family. Wake was really into the 4th spirit as well as spending his fair share of time in the ocean and the pool. We have a true water baby on our hands!!





















































Monday, July 19, 2010