Happy FIRST Birthday!

One year and 12 minutes ago, we welcomed this sweetie into our family! What a wonderful year it has been! I wish I could go back to the hospital today and re-live the delivery and that moment of seeing him for the first time! He is so much fun, and it is an honor and a blessing to get to be his Mom.

I love to look at his hands and feet!

And I know I'm really having to search for a curl here, but do you see that tiny one in the very back? :) (Oh, and seeing his ear in this picture below made me think--I took him back to the ENT this morning for his check-up, and the tubes/his ears look great. We check in again with the doctor in six more months.)

He has 5 teeth in, and one more is just coming through on the top now. A lot of the time I think he looks like my baby pictures, but I think he looks like Lane in this photo below.

He smiles and laughs a lot. He sleeps all night with no late-night bottle now. He's not walking yet, but he's getting braver and braver about letting go of things. He can crawl all the way to the top of the stairs (with me RIGHT behind him, of course), and he'd do that all day long if I'd let him (the ottoman is currently serving as a baby gate at the bottom of the staircase).

I think he weighs 25 lbs. and a few ounces. He's a big boy! He is losing interest in baby food. He'd rather eat little bits of things that the "big kids" eat: waffles, grapes, strawberries, bread, turkey, etc. He seems to really like yogurt. I guess I am about to switch to whole milk and a sippy cup...hope that transition goes well! While I'm sad to see him grow so fast, I will not miss purchasing those $25 containers of formula that I bought from age 8 months until now! Maybe our Kroger bill won't be quite as scary now.

HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY TO YOU,

Crosby Grant Garner