Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Time Flies

A year ago today I was sitting in a hospital bed holding our new baby boy. When I think back over the past year, so much has happened that it seems like it was ages ago but then it also seems like there is no way that it has already been a whole year! Mark has gone back to school, I completed student teaching and received my degree and NC teaching license (which may never be used), Mark was accepted to graduate school and is taking a mixture of grad and undergrad classes, we sold the Tundra, paid off my student loans, and lots of other little things.

Briggs has grown so much. He looks so different from when he was born but you can still see him in his newborn pictures. It is so interesting. After 12 months of life here on Earth he has turned into a walking, babbling, food loving, independently playing, cuddly boy. We love him so much and are so grateful that our lives have been blessed with him.

We celebrated his birthday with family members on Sunday, September 19th. Brigham loved his birthday cake and we had to take it away after he ate half of it so that he didn't make himself sick. He also loved the toys that he received from our sweet family. Those in attendance: Grandmother, Pappy/Boppy, Auntie Becky, Uncle Paul, Mimi, Clarisa, Grandma Mooney, Melanie, Brandon, Madison, Landon, Alison, Cameron, Daniel, Katelyn, Scarlett, Nate, and Carolina.







Birthday party #2 was on Monday September 20th. It was a combined party with Kaitlyn that we had with our friends. Brigham wasn't all about this cake like he was with the one on Sunday. I just used whipped cream on the 2nd cake since it had less sugar and I'm not sure if that is why he didn't love the cake as much. It was a fun night and we were so happy to have all our friends over to celebrate Kaitlyn and Brigham's birthday.

Brigham is about 31" long and 23 pounds. He loves water, protein shakes, cheese, anything we are eating, and his fruits and veggies. We are down to one bottle a day (the nighttime one). The only reason we haven't dropped this one is because we have 2 cans of unopened formula left and 3 boxes of baby cereal that we put in the formula to thicken it.

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