Birthday Boy

Well our baby is officially 1 year old now. It's hard to believe that a whole year has gone by already!! Skyler has brought so much joy and laughter into our lives. He is such a funny kid and loves to be the center of attention. He is constantly learning new things and outsmarting Rich and I, he definitely keeps us on our toes!!!

Our little bundle of joy 2-5-09
9 lbs 1.5 oz

Not so little anymore, now a big 1 year old!!!
20 lbs 1 oz

Skyler got to go to the Dr. on his birthday and get some shots. No Fun!!! He did really well though and the nurse asked us to remind her next time she gives him shots that he is "wickedly strong" for his age. We think that is a very good description of Skyler, he IS crazy strong. The Dr. said he is very healthy and doing great.

To celebrate his birthday we took him to Red Robin for dinner. He LOVES the Mac-n-cheese there and all of my co-workers love him, plus he really likes it when he hears them sing the birthday song so we thought it would be fun to have them sing to him. Here he is waiting for his dinner and playing with the crayon box. He though it was fun to make it stand up on the table.

Getting ready for his birthday song

Here he is with his balloon ears

Enjoying his birthday ice cream sundae

We had a little party for him on Saturday at Grandma and Grandpa's house. My cousin's wife does cake decorating for a hobby so we had her make Skyler a Curious George cake. We went to their house in Puyallup Saturday morning to pick up the cake, hoping that Skyler would take his morning nap in the car on the ride back. However when we were loading the cake into the car Skyler took a tumble in their driveway and scraped up his forehead. That put him in a bad mood so instead of sleeping he cried the whole way home. Needless to say he was very crabby when we got to Grandma's house and in desperate need of a nap. So he missed the first 45 minutes of his party. While we were waiting for him to wake up it was a good time for others to nap too....

Funny thing about this is that we have a picture just like this from Christmas too. Maybe we can get one from every holiday and special occasion this year :)

After his nap it was present time. Skyler's buddy Max is 4 months older than him and way more into the present thing. Here's Max helping Skyler open his presents.

New PJ's from the Grandparents

A fun alligator piano

He also got a super fun bubble blower machine from Joe & Corinne, a toy phone and other clothes from Grandma and Grandpa and a dump truck from us.

Yummy Food!!!

Here are Skyler's awesome cakes. They came out so good, and very tasty too!!!

Skyler's very own cake

How cool is this cake!!!!

Watching everybody sing to him

Not sure what to do yet

Yummy Frosting

Mmm finger lickin' good

Ok time for a real bite now

He's got quite a mouthful now

He wasn't much of a fan of having frosting all over his hands so he kept licking them clean.

Ok now he's done.
He didn't get nearly as messy as I though he would. I think it's because everyone was watching him. Normally he loves to squish food in his hands and make a big mess but the one time it's ok to do that he didn't want to. Go figure!!

Here are Joe & Corinne enjoying their cake

We love you guys and your silliness!!!

Rich and Chris enjoying their cake. No, we did not run out of utensils, apparently it's fun for everyone to pretend like they're 1.

Since it was such a nice day we decided to take Skyler's new bubble blower outside and have some fun. You can be the judge of who had more fun, Skyler or the big kids.....

Joe attempting to eat the bubbles

Corinne running through the bubbles to make Skyler laugh

He thought she was pretty funny!!!

Notice the scraped up forehead from the driveway incident.

Helping out making a bench

All in all I think it was a great 1st birthday!! Thanks to everyone who helped make it so fun and memorable, we love you all!!!!

Our little troublemaker......

Rich got us gym memberships for Christmas because it's our goal to get in shape. Well I wasn't able to go for a couple of weeks because Skyler was sick and they don't take sick kids in their kiddie play place (thank goodness). So one Saturday morning Rich offered to watch Skyler so that I could go to the gym and this is what happened while I was gone.....

Yes, Skyler found his lotion and somehow managed to get the lid off. Keep in mind that Rich was sitting in that rocking chair while this was happening and didn't notice Skyler getting into trouble until that little lotion covered hand reached up and touched him. By then Skyler had already done a good job of getting it everywhere. It's amazing how much trouble he can get into if you take your eyes off of him for just a minute.

I was putting the dishes away one day and Skyler decided he wanted to help so he grabbed a spatula out of the silverware tray and had so much fun playing with it I couldn't take it away. He played with it all day long and even fell asleep with it in his hand.

Here he is modeling his BYU shirt we got him when we went to Utah for Conference. It finally fits him :)

One of his favorite things to do is play with the Mega Blocks Grandma and Grandpa got him for Christmas. And by play with them I mean he likes us to build something as fast as we can while he tears it apart as fast as he can. He laughs so hard when he successfully destroys something we've built.

See look how happy he is to tear apart my tower!!!

You gotta love the shirt we found him last night. It says "Chicks Dig Me" and it has Pebbles and Bam-Bam on it. I grew up watching the Flintstones so I couldn't pass it up. Especially since Skyler is such a little flirt already that the Chicks really do dig him :)

Here's a video Rich took of Skyler with his lotion mess