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!!!