Thursday, March 4, 2010

Isaac drives

Now that I am one, I feel I am old enough to drive on my new Handy Manny quad (thanks to some awesome friends!)

Check me out...

Monday, March 1, 2010

the big ONE

So it is official... our little baby is now 1 years old. Where did the time go?

At 1:43am February 23, 2009 our son came into the world

Sunday February 21st, we celebrated that amazing and joyous moment with lots of cake, family, and the park.


Of course, the entire time leading up to Isaac's 1st birthday party, we were stressing about the impending rain storm. But it held off just long enough for us to have our little shin-dig at the park.

I can't believe Isaac just got into that cake! Like he knew what sugary sweet tasty-ness was in front of him. He had never had sweets before, so we weren't sure how he would react, but he had no fear. :)




So many amazing people joined us at the party:


On his actual birthday, we celebrated by playing with some of our new toys and (mommy) blowing out a single candle on a cupcake (which he loved as well... without any of that obscenely food-colored frosting).

A couple days later we had our one year well baby visit where Isaac passed with flying colors!

His current stats:
Height 30 inches (2.5 ft) - 58th percentile
Weight 24.2 lbs - 75th percentile


The actual check up with the pediatrician went smoothly, it was the aftermath of the vaccines and blood draw that left us both in tears. A walk to the park with Kaya and playing on the swings and slides did just the trick to make up for the trauma.

He is babbling all combinations with no real formation of words except for mamama, dadada, dugaduga, cudacudacuda, and every now and then I swear he says Kaya. Isaac loves to "high 5" and is in the early stages of waving "hi" and "bye." Currently, it looks like he is putting his arm in the air with his hand open. Occasionally we will get the hand opening and closing as well. So cute when he does it!

He (awesomely) is on table food and drinking whole milk. Now comes the hard part of weaning that bottle...

Isaac has mastered cruising on all things i.e. furniture, toys, tv's, Kaya, Mommy & Daddy, etc. We also love to walk around the house with a little help. We have at times used our push toys, but we usually like a couple index fingers, the dining room chair, or his big dump truck. Just in the last few days he has been walking with only 1 hand holding, standing and balancing on his own more and longer each day.

On Tuesday March 1st, Isaac took his first few independent steps... now I see running in the very near distant future!

Here is to many, many more years baby boy!!
We love this little guy so much and see such a bright future ahead of him.
xoxo

WATCH ME GROW!

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