One Year Appointment Update

Well, Blake had his one year appointment! All is good! He is 20.8 pounds (27th percentile) and 31.5 inches (96th percentile). Tall and skinny, just like his daddy! He is also getting a few teeth. Canines and molars! This has made him a little fussy, but he has been in a pretty good mood most of the time. Here he is playing with some of his new birthday toys!

Blake is 1!

I cannot believe it! Blake's first birthday has come and gone. And so quickly! My mom came to visit, and we had a little party! Here are some pictures:

Thanks to my mom for decorating the cake!

Also, thanks to my mom for decorating Blake's individual cupcake!

Grandpa Clay's football from high school!

The shirt says "birthday boy", "1", and "blake".

Football pizza!

After our little party, we went to Toys R Us for presents!

Sword fighting.

Hula hoop!

Thanks for the car and trailer, Grandma Cindy and Grandpa Clay!

We finished out Blake's birthday with dinner at The Rainforest Cafe. We thought Blake would like looking at the trees and fish, and we were right! He loved it!

The tank right by the table.

We had a wonderful visit! Blake had a great birthday and was so happy the entire time! He is great at going places! I hope he stays that way. He loves going out to eat, shopping, and basically going anywhere. Here are some other cute pictures from our visit with Grandma Cindy:

Fuddruckers.

Playing with my football from Grandpa Clay!

New sweatshirt and Stride-Rites at the mall!

Walking to the car on my own!

Downward-facing dog.

Oh, and I have to mention... my parents are so cool! They got an iPad 2 today! Awesome!

Orange Chicken

It has been a while since I have posted about cooking. We have just been boring in the kitchen department lately, eating the same old stuff. Recently, we made orange chicken and rice, however; and it was delicious! There is no recipe to go with it because it really isn't that difficult. We bread and fry cut up chicken, then, cook it in a pot with Panda Express orange sauce. Obviously, the white rice is pretty basic, too! Here is a picture of our fabulous meal:

Green onion update: It worked! Here is what I've got since my last picture:

Blake's 1 Year Pictures

So far, Blake has been very cooperative when getting his picture taken. He always has big smiles and is pleasant. NOT THIS TIME! He still appeared to be in a decent mood, but smiling? NO WAY! He had the most serious face ever is 98% of his pictures. And, by the way, the other 2% were only half, lame smiles. Lucky for us, we still were able to get some cute ones! Here you go!

Holding up the number 1 upside down!

"This cake is NOT real, Mom!"

This is the most he smiled! Forget about showing teeth!

Family!

Going to the Park in January?!

It was 55 degrees here today! That is unheard of in Boston! It has been a pretty mild winter so far. Let's hope it stays that way. Because of the awesome weather, we went to the park. We walked, I jogged a bit, and Blake got to swing!















As you can see, he loves swinging!

Blake has also been playing with his high hair lately. Here he is sitting on it in a different kind of way up against the wall.






Update on the green onions: must cut lower to start!!! They were not growing at all, until I cut them basically at the bottom, and now, this is what I have:






The lighter green is we're I cut, and the darker green is the new growth (only 2 days worth). FYI: you are suppose to be able to do this with celery, too! Maybe I will try that soon...

Getting Better

Well, Blake is getting so much better at walking! He is getting braver and venturing out more than ever. Here he is standing all by himself!






He is doing decent with eating his solid foods still. He is MUCH better with sippy cups and straw cups now. He is just getting so big so fast!

He is always trying to steal our food and drinks, but then spits them out after trying them. Hopefully, he will start to like some of the food we eat soon. His favorite thing to steal is Mountain Dew. Now, OBVIOUSLY we do not let him have any. Here he is trying to drink out of an unopened can.






On an unrelated note, I have decided to try something from Pinterest. Re-growing green onions. Let's see how well it works!

New Developments

Well, we have made the switch to whole milk. Blake doesn't even seem to notice a difference! We were expecting a difficult transition, but we were wrong, thank goodness! We also have been trying more "normal" foods instead of baby foods. So far, the successful foods have been bananas, cheerios, cheese, and yogurt. He kind of tolerates toast with peanut butter, whole wheat English muffins with cream cheese, and ham, but not with any consistency. Other vegetables and fruits have been failures so far except in baby food forms. Hopefully, this will change in the near future!

Blake also decided that he was not taking a morning nap today. That meant that lunch came early, and he fell asleep eating it! He is napping now, which is pretty close to his normal afternoon nap time. Hopefully, if he switches over to one nap a day, then he will have a better nap and sleep better at night. We shall see. Here he is playing and dumping all of his toys out of his basket.