Shad's first birthday

 

Our sweet little Shad turned 1 at the first of this month. I can't believe he is already 1!

The day of his birthday we took him to Uncle John's Cider Mill. Here he is driving the bus:

Both of their faces really crack me up! Priceless!

 

Running around (he's getting harder to catch these days!)

 

 

 

 It was really fun, but he got tired pretty quickly and was ready for his afternoon nap before we got a good family picture. We attempted a few nonetheless.

 

That night we had his birthday party. I really wanted to do something exciting and had a couple really cute ideas for his birthday party, but I have been a little burned out with school and work lately so I just decided to go low-key and easy with a Halloween theme. I'm sure he won't remember anyway...

I had everyone start singing "Happy Birthday" to him, and then my camera on my phone stopped working and I couldn't get it to work again until half-way through the song. Dang technology!

(Notice how Jared almost burns our son with his first birthday candle... Oops!)

 

Here is the result of us letting him do whatever he wanted with his cake:

 

 

Don't worry, everyone else got to eat pumpkin cupcakes.

 

Here are some of the new toys he got:

 

 

Here are some fun facts about this sweet one year old:

 

-He can now walk like a champ (although he mostly RUNS these days- usually away from me when I am trying to get him ready for bed!)

-His vocabulary now consists of "Da-da" (the word he uses for almost everything) "Ma-ma" (usually only when he is upset) "Uh-oh" (his new favorite word) and a TON of gibberish that sounds like a combination on German, Chinese, and who knows what else

-He is the BIGGEST flirt and knows people think he is cute!

-His favorite food is cheese, any kind really

-He finally gained weight above the single digits for percentile! At his one year appointment he was in the 17th percentile for weight, and 50th for height and head circumference. Yeah!

-He just has such a pleasant demeanor about him and is so much fun to be around

 

We are so amazingly blessed to be his parents. We really lucked out with him being so happy the majority of the time.

Happy first birthday, kiddo! Here's to many more!