He did well, and we are just waiting to see him in recovery. He’s just waking from the anesthesia…

Noah’s ready to get his tubes in his ears this morning. Poor guy spiked a fever yesterday and has some viral infection, but the surgery is still on. Hopefully, he’ll recover quickly from all this.

Things have been pretty busy here lately.  Noah turned 1,  he got his 4th ear infection in 3 1/2 months and he started walking, while Neil was in India for 2 weeks.  His birthday party was a lot of fun.  We had just family, which still meant that we had around 30 people to celebrate with us Noah’s first year.  The weather was perfect for us to do it outside.  Neil cooked some mean hotdogs and hamburgers and everyone just had a great time catching up with each other.  We even had some sweet family members in from New Jersey to help celebrate!

I made the cake this year and had a lot of fun doing it.  My mom always made our cakes and it is a tradition that I hope to carry on.

It is so hard to believe that his first year is over.  I can’t believe that we brought home our 6 pounds 8 ounces baby boy and now, he is nearly 24 pounds.  Our very first outing was to the store to get him some preemie clothes because nothing fit him…12 months later he is wearing size 18 month clothes!  He is eating us out of house and home…we can’t buy enough bananas!  He has 6 teeth now, working on number 7 and 8 as we speak.  He can say Oh boy, mama dada, and uh oh!  He knows when to say uh oh-after he drops something on purpose! 🙂  He is walking on his own now, although he can’t stand up on his own unless he has something to crawl up to first.  He has been in a helmet for over 1/2 his life-has about another 2 months left in his current helmet until he will be helmet-free for life!  He is getting tubes put in on May 6th as he loves getting ear infections.  He is still bald and I think it’s starting to bother him…he took some of my hair the other day and tried putting it on his head! 🙂  He can wave bye-bye and can clap his hands.  He is such a joy and is pretty much always happy.

God has truly blessed us this past year and I am so grateful that He has given us Noah. It is our prayer that Noah will grow up to be a man after God’s own heart.  That he will come to know the Lord at an early age and never depart from His Word or will.  I pray that Noah will grow up to be just like his Daddy!  We are very excited to see what the next year has in store for us.  We know it will be exciting and an adventure!  Saddle up, cause we are headed to year two!!!

We got Noah a little Cozy Coupe off of Craigslist last night for $5!  I know he’s still a little young for it, but for $5, how could I pass it up?  He seemed to really like it and enjoyed being outside.  His feet didn’t touch the ground, but I’d give him another week! 🙂  He stayed in there for about 20 minutes and they decided that it was time to leave.  He’s going to have to work on the dismount.

Did I mention that I actually got 3 cars???  Well, not all for Noah… 1 for Noah, 1 for my sister-in-law, and 1 for my mom.  We fit all of them plus a picnic table in the back of my car.  My car looked like a Little Tikes convention.  My backyard now looks like a used car lot!

Noah’s first experience with Mac-n-cheese as a finger food. Ew…

Noah looked like “Jailbird” Joey from Back to the Future this morning in his PJs at the stairs gate.  Hopefully not foreshadowing…

“Better get used to these bars, kid.”

Noah got his new helmet wrap today! Dinosaurs — perfect for a little boy. 🙂

Some fun pictures from this weekend, in overalls.  He has such a fun smile!  Won’t be long before those two little teeth get some new friends…

Noah got his new helmet today – one day early – so his physical therapist could fit it before she left town. He’s adapting well to it, and he doesn’t even really seem to notice it much anymore.  Amanda took him to Wrap Buddies today to get measurements done for his new helmet wrap on Friday!

I took Noah to the doctor on Tuesday as he had a double ear infection.  They gave him some antibiotics and sent us on our way.  Today, Noah had a rash all over his tummy, back and head.  Apparently, he is allergic to Omnicef.

I called the doctor and they said to give him benadryl to help with the rash and they gave him a different antibiotic.  So, off to Walmart we went to get the benadryl and new antibiotic and we got home just in time for lunch.  I gave Noah his benadryl and potato soup and he was OUT!  I think that he ate a grand total of 5 bites before he fell asleep in his high chair.

I’m pretty sure it’s time for me to take some benadryl too! 🙂