My Baptism

What a wonderful weekend with Family.

My fabulous Godparents

I love cousin Kiki!

Happy Halloween

My First Halloween was great! I love puppy dogs so I dressed up as one. Now that I can walk Mom and Dad took me trick or treating with friends (I collected a lot of candy for them:)

I was fearless!

My Official 1st Pair of Walking Shoes!

This week Mom took me to get my first pair of Stride Right Shoes since now I am pretty much a walker (and try to run when I can). I am a size 5 wide!

My 1st Birthday Party!

We had my 1st Birthday party at a local park in Pacific Heights. All my Grandparents came, Mom and Dad's friends and my playgroup buddies! It was one very fun day!

We did it - 1 year!

Tired Birthday Boy.

My baby is 1!

William is now one. As his Mother I have so many different emotions. I am so proud of the happy, healthy, smart, energetic, curious little boy he has become however wonder where did the time go... is my baby really now a toddler?

In August William started taking a couple steps at a time, 2 days before his 1st birthday he linked those steps and now is considered a walker (when he wants to). It is so amazing watching him grow.

His favorite word is "up". Up was first taught to mean he was done eating at his highchair however now William uses it whenever he wants to be picked up (often), or just whenever he is over the situation and wants a change (he loves saying it on car rides when we are not near the destination!). A few of his other favorite words are uh-oh, dah (dog?), dada and mama (although he uses Mama sparingly at this point). Lately he has been picking up any object and putting it to his ear and saying "eh" which I believe is hello. He also knows that the quack is his toy stuff duck. He continues to love finger foods and is trying to use the spoon which is just such a mess!

He seems to understand a lot that is going on - it is great being able to somewhat communicate with our little guy. One very fun thing we have been doing a little of is sign language so William now knows how to tell us he is hungry or thristy. William has been giving out a good amount of hugs lately - mostly to other Moms, stuffed animals and his best buddy Ollie (our share care partner). He also has learned to give kisses and he can be very good at smothering me with them (accompanied by the sound mmmm). Watching his positive emotions is precious. 

We had our 1 year check up and weighed in at 25 lbs 4 oz (80th percentile) and 31inches (85th percentile).

William's 1st Birthday - September 30th 2011

William's 1st Birthday was on a Friday. We had a great day which consisted of our favorite music class and lunch with friends, special time with Baba and Gramma Maggie, sunset with family on the beach and CAKE!

William has been going to music class since he was about 4 months old. He loves the class and has grown up in it. When we first started the class I would lay a blanket down and he would just kick his feet to the music and maybe try to flip over, it then turned to crawling off the blanket, I than remember watching him pull himself up for the 1st time to stand in the class by using the drum, the same one he can now easily walk over to.

Williams LOVES music and shakes his body and head whenever he hears it. This particular class is only until you turn one so everyone sung Happy Birthday to Will and now it's time for Mom to find a new class.

My new tool set

With my best buddy Ollie at Music Class

I love Jacob the music teacher

I dominate the drum!!!

Ok - I still like to act like a baby now and then

All the Moms make me smile!

We all get 1 shaker and at one point I ended up with 3!

Lunch with Ollie and the Quanbeck Twins

Mom and I did some Birthday dancing

I love my Grammas!

Mom and Dad let me crawl all around in the sand

I did some rough housing with Dad

I got to touch the water

Mom smothered me with kisses (what's new?!)

Dad gave me my favorite tosses, I don't know why Gramma got scared

Um - what is this?

I like the way cake feels

After examining it, it takes OK too!

Weekend in LA

Great time visiting family and friends.

Hanging with Annabelle

I love the beach (sand, water, time with Kiki)