Hey, you made it!!! Happy Birthday luvbug! What a year, what a birthday, and what a little man you are becoming:). Since we didn't have a birthday party for you here in the states like normal people do, we decided to celebrate in style, in Germany! Ok, so we were there for a wedding which also happened to be on your birthday, but that's neither here nor there. We were at the wedding for almost 12 hours, yet we're the first people to leave. What a bunch of sissy's us American's are, sheesh. Even the 90 year old grandma's outlasted us!!! We sang happy birthday to you at the second reception and everyone at our table including surrounding ones joined in. Mind you, we sang it in English and yet that didn't seem to deter anyone as most of the people there spoke the language perfectly.
As the day came to a close, I began to reflect on the years events and reminded me of how fast time goes by. Though this is a bit cliche, I honestly do remember the minute you were born like it was yesterday. The joy I felt at that moment has only increased with every passing day and I can only image how that love will grow with each new phase in your life.
Speaking of new phases, you finally decided to crawl like a normal baby. By normal baby, I mean crawling on your hands and knees. Up until this moment, you've been army crawling with your belly dragging on the floor. We were about a week into our trip when all of a sudden you decided that the former was the better avenue and went with it. You still use the army crawl when you need to get somewhere quick, but that is becoming few and far between. You can hold yourself up on furniture and move side-to-side with relative ease, so it would appear that walking is in the cards pretty soon. You have four teeth that are almost fully grown in and two on the top that are just about to break though. Going from no teeth to almost six in just over two months is quite a jump, but I'll take you eating table food any day. The transition to table food before our trip was a life saver and really made things easier on that front. You have added a couple of words to your arsenal, but to our disappointment, do not like to say "uh-oh" as much. Since that was your first spoken word, it will always be endearing to us, but you have moved on and so can we. You have a deep belly laugh that is infectious, and it doesn't take much to get you or myself going. Matter of fact, sometimes you just laugh for no apparent reason. Case in point, we were driving last night to get some tasty Thai food and just started laughing in your car seat on the way over. I should add that your car seat is still rear facing, so you were basically staring at the seat in front of you and thought that it was hilarious. We all know how funny car seats are, don't we?
Let's see, new tricks...you give hugs now, can sign 'more' and 'all done' during feeding time, and can clap or wave on command. You love to open and close doors, can play Peek-a-Boo for hours, will blow kisses if we ask you to, and will bob side-to-side when we sing to you. You love it when music is played and will dance up a storm when a tune comes on. It doesn't matter if the song is any good, all you care about is that you get your jig on and all is well in your world.
Well, before we wrap things up here, think about this for a moment -- in just a years time you have been to four different countries (Canada, Italy, Switzerland, and Germany), yet I didn't get on a plane until I was 18 and hadn't been overseas until our trip with you. Not a bad feat there little fella and I'm sure will be a good story for you as you get older. All in all, it has been the greatest year of my life and you buggy, have been everything that I could have hoped for. You are a gentle spirit son, one that is full of life and incredibly fun to be around, but above all else, you are my best friend. Here's to another great year!
Other tidbits: Favorite foods are hot dogs, string cheese, gold fish crackers, and pears, but will pretty much eat what ever you put in front of him. Let's just say that he is an adventurous eater.
One last interesting tidbit, I swear: If you look at the picture closely, you'll see that our camera is on the table. Well, we had the video taken care of and thought that the grandparents were going to be taking pictures from their camera. Turns out that they took video too, so that meant there were no pictures to show for on his 1st birthday. Brilliant! I take full responsibility for that mishap, but luckily I was able to grab a still in iMovie from the video that we took thanks to this helpful hint on the internets. Phew, for a minute there, I lost myself...!
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Wow, Ian, congratulations on one year! You are so handsome in your fancy shirt...and jesse--what a wonderful tribute to your son. He is very lucky to have you.
Thanks for the kind words! It was in the low 90's that day and he held up like a champ. Considering the attire he was in, and the fact we were there for about 12 hrs was quite the accomplishment -- go Ian!