Toby's 1st Birthday!

7/17/10

Hunter and Toby celebrated their birthdays on 7/17/10. Toby's 1st birthday was shared because of all the baseball that has kept Hunter and Thomas running all summer. We got them a couple of wonderful cakes from As You Wish Bakery. MMMMM the chocolate was my favorite but the whole thing was delish. We did the typical hot dogs for dinner and hands full of cake icing in the face. Aunt Kelly is probably still scraping icing off her glasses. Silly woman! Jimmy and Lisa brought Dustin to help us celebrate. Everyone else in attendance was family. Aunt Nini was supposed to come but got sick at the last min and wasn't able to attend. I will try to post the pictures later. It was a long day and Toby didn't get a nap so by 7:30 he was out like a light laying in his playpen at MawMaw and PawPaw's house. I don't think an earthquake would have woken him up.

I really can't believe he is a year old already. He is pulling up and will stand without holding on for quite some time. I have seen him take a step or maybe 2 without falling but he just needs a little more confidence. I am sure we will skip walking all together and go straight to running once he figures it out. We met with the Physical Therapist who is pretty much ready to cut him loose but I asked that he continue every other week until T is walking on steady foot. He agreed and then I think we will move to once a month just to keep a check on him and make sure he is continuing to progress at a steady rate. He has come a long way and is pretty much caught up to where he needs to be.

He for the most part is a pretty easy kid. Except for when he wants something (he has no patience - wonder where he got that from...) he is really laid back. He keeps himself occupied and is pretty quite unless he is not feeling well (teething) or if there is food in the room. Didn't you know that you aren't supposed to have food in the room with a baby unless you are ready to share - LOL. Unlike Hunter, T loves to eat. Sometimes I wonder if he hasn't quite figured out when to stop. He is still fairly small for his age but I can honestly say that I don't think we will be buying slim anything for him in the future. Toby eats well. There are few things that he doesn't like. He doesn't to very well with eggs I think it the texture. He doesn't care for broccoli or prune juice. Other than that he seems to eat just about anything.

Since his tubes were put in his ears he has been babbling more. He says DaDa, MaMa, BoBo, BuBu, ByeBye, EtOh, NuUh and MM

Oh they grow up too too too too fast!