What a day

So baby boy is finally feeling better so awesome. We played so much today and he wore me out. We even want for a short walk outside.

Love this guy. He loves his new toy he got for his birthday.

Sick little one

Poor little man has been sick for a week now. Went to the doctor yesterday and said the has he an ear infection.

Hoping he get better soon. Currently having high fevers at night not fun at all. 

For now lots we are trying to get him a lot of rest and keep him nursing.

Obstacle Course

An obstacle is great your climbers. Anthony loved it! It is fun for them and also helps them with learning language by you talking to them while they are moving around it. They hear you talk about going under, over, and around.

He is planning his movements. Making his body move the was he wants. He was climbing over and pulling himself up! He was moving oh so fast.

Here he is giving himself kisses. 

Pulling himself all by himself.

How to do this at your Home

Put pillows and other items on the floor keeping them close together. Have a chair too so your child will go around it or even under it. Watch your child while they are playing and exploring. Decribe your child's actions to him or her. Talk about going over, under, around, or pulling up. Also talk about the objects in the course. You can also play follow the leader and join in. Make it fun by chasing your kiddo. Mirror your child's emotions. When he or her laughs laugh with him or her. 

Party Time with Number One

Still can't believe Anthony is One! His party was a huge hit! It was a Monster Theme, because Anthony is my little monster. We invited 26 over and pretty much everyone came. I think was the perfect amount of people for his party. Shawn and I both have big families so we both just invited one Auntie each and all Anthony's baby friends.

THE CAKE

Loved his cakes! We got them at Festival Foods. The bakery team there is awesome. I gave them a photo of a cake and asked if they would be able to create it. 

I hand drew this and asked if it could go on his smash cake. His cakes turned out WAY better than I could have imagine! The bonus part is that smash cakes are free and the bigger cake was only $15.99. I thought it was going to be around $35 so that was a plesant surpise.

PHOTO COLLAGE

ADOPT A MONSTER

I made little monsters out of scrap material and bought some bubbles and drew faces on them.

HANGIN' WITH HIS BUDDY

Party Time! All the kids and babies loved the bouncers.

Anthony helping me set up. :)

PRESENT TIME

Anthony and me opening his gifts! He had fun looking at everything.

CAKE SMASH

What an awesome mess!

Anthony is One!

I can't believe my son Anthony is one! We had an awesome day on his birthday, March 7th! We got his pictures done by Porter Meister Photography. I'm so excited to see them. Eva the photographer posted a sneak peek on her facebook page.

When we were done we took him to the mall and all had lunch. We also went to Kohl's. Anthony loves the mall. He enjoys looking at everyone and everything.

Once we got home Shawn, my husband, and I took some photos of him that I wanted done but didn't have enough time with Eva. (We did a smash cake with her and he got mess really fast!)

I'm so lucky my little man loves the camera. We took these photos on our front porch. We got the wooden letters at a craft store and I made the garland in the back with burlap and scrap material I had around the house.