O-N-E!

Happy 1st birthday, Mr. Micah William!  

 Mommy is having a hard time with you officially being a toddler today.  I think it's because your first year of life seemed to go by so much faster than Mara's did.  I do purposefully soak you in every day, but dang, I'm not quite ready for you to be running around and talking just yet.  Good thing I don't have control over that.  We have a fun day planned for your birthday.  Probably more fun for us than you, but I don't think you'll mind.  I love you!

About the birthday boy

Nicknames:  Brother
Likes:  balls, anything with wheels, blocks, puzzles, books, and brushing his teeth

 Dislikes:  frozen green beans and his Momma leaving him (isn't too fond of Child Watch at the YMCA)

Favorite foods:  He prefers the main dish over fruits and veggies.  Bananas are his favorite fruit.  Lance has to sneak one out in the mornings, or he'll scream until he gets one.  He loves pasta, cottage cheese, and yogurt.  He is done nursing and does really well with milk in a sippy cup.

Words - He blows me away with the amount of words he uses and repeats.  Mara only said Mama and Dada by her first birthday.  It's amazing how different kids can be!
Here are some of the words I can think of:
cracker (cah-cuh), hot (haaaa - He holds his mouth wide open for several seconds after he says this!), banana (nana), snack (sack), Mara (Muh), Papa (My dad brainwashes all of his grandkids because he always gets them to say "Papa" before "Grandma!"), bath (bah), moo, baa-baa, woof, no no, Mama, Dada (Dah), Sister (Sis), night night (nigh nigh), hi, bye bye, yuck (guck), brrrr, shoes (shzzz), ball, boom, poop, and toot

These last two prove that he's not an only child and not the oldest.  I definitely didn't teach him those two words!  When we say "One, two...", he says, "Teeee!"  When we ask how old he is, he holds up one finger and says, "Two!"

Micah, I can't wait to see what toddlerhood has in store for you and us!  You melt my heart every single day.  Happy 1st birthday!