Things We Love About Our One Year Old...

...and some we don't love but need to remember!

• His sweet little voice, full of excitement yelling for "Da-deee!"
• Hearing him so excited to see Da-deee and play with Da-deee
• He has the absolute sweetest and goofiest smiles




This would be a sweet one

 


and this a goofy one

  

• He wakes up happy. All the time. And when he is picked up after sleeping, he lays his head on the shoulder of who is holding him, tucks his arms between himself and who is holding him and just melts. HE IS SO SQUISHY!
• Finding the broken (completely removable) fridge handle never ON the fridge but in random places-like under the couch or in our bedroom.
• Needing to be creative with warning words and ways to say "no" and get my defiant persistent son to respond, appropriately (being the operative word!)
• Taking pictures like this:

he climbed in this
small basket himself

• He gives kisses...yummy! and that makes my heart smile!
• Finding kitchen towels in the living room because they are so fun to continually yank from the oven door handle and drag all around the house.
• Watching him tackle our very fat, docile cat. Like this:

which is actually very comical to watch

• He LOVES playing chase with Daddy and Daddy loves it too!
• We are learning to speak gibberish
• He tries to say "I Love You" which sounds a lot like "ayeeeeoouu" and we LOVE that!
• He can eat people food which makes life so much easier when we are going, well, anywhere
• This is almost constantly what my living room and kitchen floors look like no matter how many times a day or how much energy I expend trying to keep things picked up.



That's why they look like this



• But most of all, we just love this

and how could we not?!?!