One Year Old

Saturday was Toby's first birthday. I can't believe it has been a year. He is such a cutie and a troublemaker. To celebrate Toby's birthday we had dinner at Karma and Brent's house as well as a picnic at the park (pictures to come).

Today we had his one year check up. Toby weighs 21 lbs 13 0z - 34% (his friend Cade is 4 months younger and at least 2 lbs heavier). He is 29 inches tall - 24%. And his head circumference is 18.8 inches - 85%. WE have begun the transition to milk and a sippy cup. Hopefully Toby will do really well since he isn't too big a fan of solids yet. As most of you know Toby is a big fan of baby food. I didn't work too hard on normal food because of this. Lately I've been trying to give him more things, but he is a little picky. This isn't to say he doesn't like food, except mashed potatoes. It's just that one day he will eat a food and the next day he won't. So it's just a big guessing game. He is very consistent about eating fruit though. So if all else fails that's what he eats.

Toby crawls all over the place and gets into everything. He actually took his first steps by himself on his birthday (video of this to come). It is so funny to see him try to walk. He usually only takes a couple of steps, but already has gotten better in the past two days. Toby loves Baby Einstein and I don't think either of us could live without it, especially at 5 am. Some of his favorite toys are his Winnie the Pooh Train thing and his tunnel that he got for his birthday. Another thing that Toby loves is our wind chime. Every time he hears it he giggles. He also giggles at other things. If he hears laughter he laughs, if you play peek-a-boo he laughs. It is pretty easy to get a smile out of Toby and we are grateful that for the most part we have a very happy baby.

Toby is also very loud. He babbles to himself almost all day long. He laughs, cries, screams (either happy or sad), and makes noise all the time. His "first" word is uh-oh. He knows exactly what this means and says it a lot, mostly when he drops things. It is so cute to hear him say it.