Baby G Makes Three!: Happy 1st Birthday, Reese!!

Dear Reese,

Happy 1st Birthday, Sweet Baby!! I can't believe you are already one year old. Really you are a little over one year old. Once again, Mommy is a little late. We celebrated your birthday the Saturday before with a party of family and a few close friends. You were very blessed with lots of fun toys and some cute clothes. It was like Christmas! You did so well with the crowd and all the attention. You even showed off your new walking skills. That's right!! You are a walking little boy now. You had been taking a couple of steps here and there, but exactly a week before your birthday, you started taking lots of consecutive steps. By the time your party rolled around you were getting more and more brave about how far you'd try to go.

On your actual birthday, we got you a cupcake and some more balloons. And, Daddy got Mommy some flowers. You dove into the cupcake with no hesitation! You were a little hesitant about your duckie smash at your party, but you still did a pretty good number on it, too!

Your new skills are way too many to even try to keep up with. You are getting so good at word recognition and remembering things. Your fine motor skills are awesome and you can easily press a little button with the tip of your finger. You bring things to me without me holding my hand out. I just ask you and you'll do it. You know what your basketball, ball, duck, books, and a few other things are and will look for them in your pile of toys when I ask you where they are. You have learned how to say a few words. You can say (in addition to mama, dada, and "du"ck) uh-oh, whoa, bye-bye (you can wave, too!), ba-ba. We're still working on a few things! I'm sure there are things I'm missing, but you just learn so much every day.

You are still an eating machine and love to feed yourself finger foods. You have gotten to love cheese so that's becoming a must have. You haven't really changed much in the amount you eat, but you are starting to get some formula that has lactose in it and seem to be tolerating it fine. You are wearing size 3 diapers, size 12-18month shirts and john-johns, and size 9-12 pants. We'll find out your official stats next week at your 12 month check-up.