Happy Birthday to Blake!!

Blake enjoying his pancakes on his birthday!!

Today we celebrate Blake's 1st birthday!!! As I think about the past year it never fails to amaze me how fast the year has gone by and how much Blake has grown over the past 12 months. At a year old he weights 25 lbs and 12 ounces, he is saying "mama," "dada," "a-oh," and the newest word to the list is "iit" (aka light). He IS walking, letting go of furniture and making it across the room now, and he loves to walk between Josh and I as he laughs all the way. We are slowing starting to enjoy "people" food, he loves hot dogs (as we found out at the cookout last week), mashed potatoes, mac-n-cheese, bread, pancakes, waffles etc.. however, we are still working on the meats and vegetables. He still prefers the mashed up carrots and green beans versus the real ones:) He continues to be our outside boy, he absolutely LOVES to be outside, going for walks and to the park to swing is his favorite thing to do. He still prefers to be barefoot versus shoes, he gets this honestly, both mom and dad hate shoes as well.:) All in all, we think he is perfect and we love watching he discover new things.

Josh and I were reminiscing about the day I fell out of the swing and the day we made the trip to Greenville Memorial and knowing we would not return home without a "baby on board."
Life has definitely changed over the past year and we have learned a lot about ourselves and each other, I think the most important lesson that I have learned is to find the joy in each day, Blake reminds me of that each day!! He is a true blessing and an absolute joy, I have said many times that being a parent is the hardest job I have ever done but I is truly the BEST thing I have ever done!!