One Year Old!!!

Kyler is one year old today!!! One year ago today, I had been having contractions since about 6 am the previous morning. I had hardly slept at all the night before because of the contractions and we finally decided to head to the hospital about 3:00 in the afternoon. We got there and found out that I was 4-5 cm dilated, were admitted to the hospital, and about 5 1/2 hours later this little guy entered the world!

Kyler Erik Blanchard, about 1-2 hours old

3 months old

6 months old

9 months old

One year old!

Hi Mom!

Soooo big!

Happy boy

Give me the camera!

Hard to believe our little man is one year old today! There were times during this past year that I thought would never end; however, looking back on them they are done and gone! Other times seem to have gone so fast as we are already at 12 months and the days of Kyler sitting in one spot in one room are long gone! Our little boy continues to be such a blessing in our lives. He is on the go all the time! He is not walking yet, but he crawls everywhere, including up the stairs multiple times a day. He pulls himself up on everything (including the toilet) :) and will walk from one thing to another. He loves to walk with you, but has to be holding on to you with both hands, he doesn't like to go one-handed and gets mad if you make him do it, even though he will stand next to something and hold on with one hand or he will lean against it with no hands and play with something else... :)

We have been working on doing more and more finger food with Kyler. We have been giving him some things for a while now, but are working on making his whole meal finger foods. He's not quite sure about this as he loves to be able to just "suck down" his food and not do any work to get it to his tummy. :) Another thing with eating is that we have sucessfully made it one year with breastfeeding!! I feel like this is something to be proud of, I know it doesn't work for everyone, but we made it the full year! Kyler is down to just a couple feedings during the day that we will be slowly eliminating over the next couple of weeks. I am kind of ready to be done, but again hard to believe that this "stage" is over. :)

Kyler has been doing a lot more talking this month he has been pretty vocal for a while now, but I think it has definitely increased this past month. He has discovered his "n" and "d" sounds and almost has the "g". His favorite words are "ba ba ba" or "bop bop/bob bob". We joke about "who is bob?" "what bob are you talking to Kyler?" around here. :)

We love you so much Kyler! You are such a blessing to us! Happy 1st Birthday!!!!

Love,

Daddy and Mommy