12 mo appointment

Jake had his big 12 month appointment today.

He waited in the big chairs like a big boy.  All seemed fine and he even didn't seem too nervous during the regular check up (though he hated the measuring the head part)...though it was so funny:  The Dr. tried to offer a tongue depressor to Jake to play with and he just looked at it and her with the upmost disdain and wasn't tempted haha.  She gave it to him after she did the throat gaggy thing and he threw it on the floor-enough said.  He cried during his 4 shots (yeah, 4), but got over it relatively quickly.  Maybe they weren't able to because of the types of shots, but in our last office they would do immunization cocktails so you only had 1 or 2 shots.  

So our stats are:

20.6 lbs, 29 inches, (both 37%) and I don't remember the head...maybe 18 in?  (it was 57%).  He's developing great! and we're going to start weaning him off of formula and onto whole milk.  I hope he doesn't react to dairy like I did as a lil kid (itchy elbows/knees).  and we're gonna up the finger foods.  Finger foods are kinda tricky with him cause he doesn't like getting his hands dirty, but if we feed him with a spoon he'll open his mouth.  I just hope he'll get over it and used to the new textures.

We're proud of our big boy!

Jake turns 1!

We were lucky enough to have my parents still in town for Jake's first birthday (otherwise I don't know how I would have gotten everything done and keep him entertained).  It was a great day.  I spent all day getting the decor/garage ready and the cake/ cupcakes-we did ice cream cone cupcakes and then a lil smash cake for jake.  We had a variety of frosting for the kids' cupcakes: vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, and then toppings to go on them (sprinkles, m&ms, gummi bears etc).

I just did a basic light green, yellow, and blue theme in the table clothes, bday banner, and without meaning to- his outfit in his big 1 year portrait was green, and his lil baby book that Grandma Shayne made for us was blue, and our lil framed stats from his birth had greens and blues and my lil homemade framed chalkboard with his current stats was green.  Didn't plan it, but it all came together.

(we moved the ugly boxes out before the guests came ;)

1 year portrait!

we didn't have enough tables/easels so i just wrapped some boxes in left over green tablecloth and put it behind the table (meh whatever)

says: happy birthday jacob (it's still up in the garage)

When Code got home we opened presents and face timed with our GA family.  Jake got tons of cool books/toys and he especially likes the books he got.  He got some bath toys, his first car toy which came with his first legos, a cool number puzzle, shape toy, spiral slide for 3 balls thing, a sweet fire engine toy that he can ride around in, and the 2 biggies- our water table and wading pool.

(firetruck toy that actually has a hose that sprays water ;)

After our face time call and our guests started arriving we partied.  The kids loved all the water toys and the adults sat around chattin' and eating in the garage. Between our local friends we had a fun lil group of kids

Jake preferred the water table.  He loves swimming in like a real pool but for some reason he doesn't seem to like the shallow wading pool....maybe it was too cold- he expects a warm bath in that shallow of water?

Thank you Laurel for the umbrella!! It was a life saver!

I don't know if you can see in the below picture but if you hook the hose up to the pool it has a sprinkler feature-along the edge of the pool.  pretty fun.

Jake sportin' a festive lei 

and chowin' down on watermelon

 Jake wasn't in love with the whole smash cake idea.  He took a few licks of the icing but didn't know how to eat it-it is just one huge thing/hard to pick up.  so I dug in a bit and gave him some of the inside which he seemed to like, but not enough to do it himself and get his hands dirty (he really doesn't like messy hands).

yeah...he was done after awhile...

not happy....and I got cake in my ear.

He got great presents from our friends-thanks everyone for helping us celebrate!

After awhile Jake decided to be sulky and hang with Uncle Eric in the corner with the balloons

Jake loved smiling at Jeffrey Beck which was pretty stinkin' cute to see-can't believe how big he is!

(sorry for the bad lighting)

Now that the birthday craziness has calmed down a bit and he got a good night sleep he's really enjoying his new toys/books.  Today we got a belated bday package from Mike, Jess, and the kids out in KS.  It had some model cell phones in it perfect for him to play with-hopefully he'll forget about mommy's and daddy's phones now :)

   

All and all it was a great birthday and he slept SOUNDLY after it :)  I was a lil sentimental/mushy in the morning but then I shook it off cause I don't want to be one of those moms who cries "my baby!"  I love love love Jake at this age-so fun, explorative, yet not quite destructive enough-it's still easy to divert him.  We go in on Monday for our yearly check up and round of shots so stats to come.

We love our big boy! (pics courtesy of Tyler Lewis)

(and this was him on a not smiley day-imagine how much cuter these could have been!)

Jake's 1st Bday Photo Shoot & Bear Lake

There were tons of pics that turned out pretty good from our shoot with Tyler but i'm still going through them so here are some that I just snapped the next day with the leftover balloons:

Giggling with Grandpa Gary

Chilling at Brick Oven

Playing with gpa and gma and the water table

Reuniting with cousin Bailey:

The view out of our cabin

the lake was cold but not as cold as I was expecting

that thing is the blow up toy we rented

on the boat

 tuckered out

swimming at the pool

this is the slide we saw a big kid fall off from the top and landed SMACK on the pavement-he was ok but I'm sure he had a bad bruise-shudder.

gpa Richards' talk

drive on the way home