One Year Old

Lots of things happened in the month of May. My Mom and I got to celebrate our first Mother's Day. Daddy and I took her to lunch and for a walk. Daddy even said he would play with me for a few minutes and let Mommy take a nap.
I got to help get Mommy a present for Mother's Day. I got her a whole lot of my favorite thing. Paper! Daddy got all these new dishes for her and put them in my paper. I didn't think that was very nice to mess it all up like that. We had much more fun with my present just like it was.

Guess what else? I finally found what I wanted for my birthday present. I thought this house would be a fun new toy. The sign was pretty cool. I get whatever I want, so my parents bought it for me.

We had a lot of stuff to do before we moved into my new house.

First of all, we had to pack up our old house. Mommy said that she wanted to pack up the kitchen first. So, Lucy and I helped to get all of the dishes out of the dishwasher. I would not let Daddy use my paper to pack these up.

We had a lot of stuff that we needed to pack. I wanted to help out, but it really got in the way that I couldn't carry anything while I was crawling. There was only thing to do. Learn to walk. I talked to Mommy about it, and she got me this mail cart to help me learn. I thought about letting go of my cart a lot, but then it seemed really scary to just walk around in thin air like that, so I chickened out a lot. Then one day...I figured I had to do it sometime! This was great! I could walk one or two steps at a time! The only problem was that everytime I picked something up in my hand, it made me fall over. No worries because I had my handy-dandy mail cart. I knew that it would be such a help with the move. I unpacked all of Mommy and Daddy's DVD's and helped to carry them around. I did such a good job, that I thought I would help Mommy and Daddy out with a lot more stuff.Mommy did not know where to put my books on the shelf. I took them all off for her, so that she could try again to do it the right way. I helped out at both houses. I checked out all of the toilets in the old house to make sure they worked for the new owners. I couldn't decide on my own because I have never used one. I sent my rubber ducky in to check it out from the inside.While I was hanging out in there, I noticed that Mommy had a lot of left over toilet paper. I took care of that, too. Back at the new house, things were really in full swing. We were even getting a new roof. Mommy felt I had worked so hard with the books and the DVD's that maybe I should take a break from unpacking. She told me to stand right here and keep an eye on those workers for her. Boy, oh boy, that was an important job.When the furniture was delivered, I inpected it for any damage. It looked pretty good to me.Yikes! I am glad I remeasured. Daddy would have made a very big mistake with that rug!I even decided to try my hand at decorating. I brought Mommy this lovely shelf paper to line the drawers in the bathroom. I found it right on the living room table. I was so excited that she liked it.

It wasn't all hard work. We all took some time out to play a little, too. One Saturday, we took a break to go to the Walk for Cystic Fibrosis. I was very excited to see that my friend, Ben, was there even though it was raining.I also got to see my friend, Molly, and her grandma. We usually walk for Molly's big sister, Maddie's team, but this year we were on the Bradly Arant team. I didn't know that guy. I was a little afraid that I wouldn't know anyone, but I was excited to find out that I knew everyone on it! Here is our team. We walked around the whole lake even when it started to rain. Ben and I got to stay dry in our strollers, so we didn't mind much. One day, I got mail! I never get mail in the mailbox, but it was just for me. It was a card that said that my birthday was coming really soon. I hoped this is one of those times like Easter and Christmas where I get more toys!My Mommy and Daddy gave me a birthday party at my new house to celebrate my first year. I had a monkey t-shirt and monkey cake and a monkey balloon for my birthday. I had never heard of a cake or a balloon before and boy were those two things fun!After everyone had played at my party for a while, they all stood around me and sang me a song with my name in it. Then, it was very strange, but they gave me that monkey cake and told me to eat it. I wasn't sure what to do at first. I thought it was a little funny to have everyone watch me eat like that. Mommy showed me what to do.

It only took one bite. I didn't care who was watching after that! This was delicious!Ben, and Helen, and I had so much fun with my toys. We all got to play with the big exersaucer together. Apparently, there are rules that you can't play with girl's hair and you can't pat other little boys in the face. I am working on this, but it is so hard to remember. My Grandma and Helen's Mom hung out with us for a little while to help me know not to do that. Ben and Helen really liked my alphabet animal wheel.

I found out that a birthday is even better than Easter and Christmas! You get all kinds of new toys.It was hard to open them all. I was so glad that Helen was there to help me. Look! Everyone is watching me again!

Presents aren't as much fun if you don't get to share. I couldn't believe it; Mommy's head was even bigger than mine! I loved all of my toys and have been playing with them all week long since my party. It was very fun to see all of my friends and family and share my birthday. I played so hard and talked so much. I finally just had enough.I couldn't even swing anymore.

I took a long, long nap to recover from my party. When I woke up, I was sad to see that everyone had gone home. There was one friend that stayed to play with me. At first, he was really shy and stayed really high up in the air, but everyday he gets a little bit closer to me. We walk around and around the house together. He makes me laugh! When you are a big boy, you have to do big boy things. Since I had turned one, it was time for my first big boy haircut. Mommy had to talk Daddy into letting me have one. She said that I looked raggedy, and Daddy said that I looked cute. Finally, Daddy said that I could have a haircut after my first birthday. I really liked getting my haircut. It tickeled a lot and made me laugh. It was really hard to stay still for so long.

I think I look very handsome with my new hair. Daddy says I look like a little boy. That is because I am not a baby anymore. I am officially a toddler. Daddy saved all of my baby hair to keep forever and ever. I really like being one year old. I enjoyed by first year a lot, but now I know how to reach things that are really high, and move into really small places, and open up drawers and other hiding places to get into anything I want. You won't believe the stories I will have for you this year.