1 year old

I made it to my first birthday! I had a great birthday party! Thank you to my grandma for the wonderful cakes, my aunt Kate for the amazing slide show and my aunt Stephanie for just helping in all the ways that she does. I had a lot of people come to my party and I want to thank all of them too for all of my awesome presents! Don't be sad, but right now my most favorite thing is the balloons. Mommy brought them all home and they are taking over the house. It is so cool! My brother also got to come to my party and that was so cool. I love to play with him and I like to do everything he does. I hope he can come for a long time this Summer because we have a lot of fun together. I had my 1 year check up yesterday. I weight 22 pounds and I am 30 inches long. I guess I am right on track with all the milestones I am supposed to be accomplishing. I have to learn 20-30 words before my next check up at 18months. That means I have at least 17 to learn. I don't know about you, but I like trying to accomplish the physical milestones a lot better than the academic ones! I don't like to sit and listen to books and I don't like to sit still long enough to play mommy's silly little finger games. Give me a ball and I will throw it far, give me some stairs and I will climb them all day, but this sitting still stuff is no fun for me. I guess I will try and learn some words, but don't be mad if I can't learn 30 in the next 6 months. I have been trying really hard to get my mommy to take me outside. I point to the door and blab on and on, but she still does not let me. She said it is still too cold to play in the grass, but soon enough I will get to go play at the park. I am holding you to it mom, don't you think I will forget this one. I scared my babysitter on my birthday, she was downstairs making lunch and I was upstairs napping when she heard a loud thump....it was me, I learned how to climb out of the playpen where I sleep. She was not proud of me, but I was sure proud of myself. I even walked away from it with no bumps or bruises. Pretty impressive if I do say so myself. I have my 1 year pictures this weekend so mommy has been stressing about what to have me wear. Seriously mom, I really like hanging out in just my diaper, so if that works for you, let's do it! Yeah right, my mom is a clothing crazy woman, there is no way she would ever let me get away with that. I am sure she will come up with something! She is going to get a bunch of wallet sized pictures and send them out in the thank you cards that I have been working on, so stay tuned for my 1 year pictures. If you did not come to my party, don't worry, she told me she would send you guys a picture too. Ok, I think that is about all for now. I will keep you posted on any new words I have learned or any adventures I go on now that the weather is starting to get nice.
Take care!!

~Blayke