Grey's First Birthday Party

What would I have done this weekend without Zephy, Grammie, and Grandpa??  We had plans to set up for the party on Saturday, do last minute errands, and both Zippy and Grevin were sick.  Zippy had a 24 hour stomach bug which made him curl up in bed all day.  Grevin had a high temperature, was laying on my lap whimpering, and didn't want to eat.  Now, all of you who know Grevin, this is highly unusual.  I took him to urgent care that afternoon.  Turns out he had a double ear infection and his left eardrum had ruptured.  Once we pumped him full of antibiotics, he was MUCH better!  He still wasn't himself at his party but at least he got to enjoy it.  While my mom, Doyle, and Ben helped me take care of Grevin and Zippy Saturday, Zephy, Grammie, and Grandpa were hard at work doing all the errands and cleaning that we were suppose to do. I don't think I can thank them enough!!

The weather was BEAUTIFUL for Grevin's birthday.  We were all able to hang out outside on one of the first really warm days of the year.  All of our friends were able to come, Doyle said he has never seen that many kids all together outside of childcare! It was nice to enjoy the beautiful weather with  Grevin's friends and family (a small party of about 50 people, including 15 kids!).

Eating lunch with Grandma and Uncle Ben

Everyone playing in Grammie's backyard

Noah mowed all of the yard for us!

Grey and Ruby playing in the new ballpit

Singing happy birthday to Grevin! (the cake was originally supposed to be a soccer ball but with all of the chaos before the party, we didn't have time to do more than put blue icing on it!)

He was not quite sure what to do with it...

His cousin Andrew liked the icing!

It tasted much better eating it off of his arm!

Maddy reading birthday cards for Grey

Helping open presents

Loves playing with his new ball!

Almost as much as playing in the cooler...

On the way home...he partied hard!

Thank you to everyone who came out to play with us.  It was a wonderful day!

Thank you, Dominique!

We had Grevin's 1st birthday pictures taken a couple of weeks ago by Dominique Long.  They turned out so amazing!!!  If anyone is interested in having their pictures taken locally, check out her website: http://www.dlongphotography.com

She was great with Grevin, came with so many fun props(including the balloons!), knew alot of great locations to take photos, and was so easy to work with.  I posted a few of the pictures back in February but here are a couple more that I just love:

Happy 1st birthday, Grey!

Happy 1st birthday, Grey!  I can't believe we are here already...I swear it was just yesterday that we were at the hospital waiting to hear that first cry, making sure you had all your cute little fingers and cute little toes, finding out that we were bringing home a happy, healthy baby boy.  But then other days, it feels like years ago when we had to hold you all night long because you did not want to sleep without human contact, when your daddy would walk you around the house singing the ABC's to get you to calm down and fall asleep.  You have grown into such a cute little boy now and my baby has disappeared before my very eyes.

Grandpa DeShazer said our lives would definitely change once you were born and he was right. But I think it changed for the better instead of the worse like he was implying.  Yes, I like to go to bed before 10 pm now because I know you will be up by 6 am.  I used to LOVE to sleep in but your happy, bubbly smile in the morning makes it totally worth getting up(even though I am lucky and can convince your daddy to get up and let me go back to sleep for an hour on the weekends).  We go for happy hour drinks and out to dinner around 6 now instead of heading out at 8 pm for the night.  You are so much fun to take with us, you smile and wave at everyone and enjoying the sights and sounds of being out in public.  I have yet to spend a night away from you, just because it is so easy to take you with us everywhere!

You never sit still.  Yes, part of this is your age, the other part is your daddy's genetics.  You love to be where the action is...and if there is not much going on, you will cause the action!  It takes about 2 seconds for the living room to be covered in toys.  If I am getting clothes for you out of your dresser, you like to take EVERYTHING out of that drawer.  Luckily, you like to put the stuff back, too, just not as organized as it was before...I have given up on folding your clothes!

Some days you want to be more independent, doing EVERYTHING yourself, playing by yourself, walking everywhere.  Then the next day, all you want to do is have us feed you, play with you, and carry you everywhere.  I love the days when you like to cuddle, you have gotten really good at that!

This first year has been amazing, we are so lucky that you are such a happy, active little guy.  It is so fun to watch you grow, take in the world around you.  I am so excited to see what the next year has in store...

I love you through and through...yesterday, today, and tomorrow too!

Love, Mommy

 Helping dad put together your present from Grandma & Grandpa Oglesby. 

Playing with the soccer ball

The morning of your 1st birthday

A look back at the soccer ball

MONTH ONE

 

MONTH TWO

MONTH THREE

 

MONTH FOUR

MONTH FIVE

 

MONTH SIX

MONTH SEVEN

 

MONTH EIGHT

MONTH NINE

 

MONTH TEN

MONTH ELEVEN

 

ONE YEAR!!  

 

 

 

(you may notice something different about the ball.  There was an unfortunate incident with the blue soccer ball and a little dog...) 

Ouch!

Grevin had his first run in with an  end table on Monday-right between the eyes!  This is what happens when you want to fling yourself object to object to get somewhere fast instead of trying to steadily walk there. First of many, I am sure!

Happy 4th Anniversary!

Today is our fourth anniversary...where does the time go?  Zippy and I met in 2001 at SSU when I first moved out to California.  He was the main reason I stayed :) We met in class as we were both geography majors but didn't get to really know each other until 9/11/01 when we were heading out on a class field trip down the San Andreas fault to go to a conference in Santa Barbara.  We have been inseparable since!  It was such a tragic day but for me personally, I have alot of positive thoughts when this day rolls around.  He tried to put the moves on me on the car trip but I was able to resist him for about a week :)  The line "Do you want to hang out sometime outside of class?" had me swooning and it was all over after that!  After we both graduated from SSU, we walked together(ahh...so sweet)...we headed off to Europe for a year to live with an amazing family and for him to play amateur soccer.  We shared lots of ups and downs and came out of that year knowing that we could survive anything.  We were married in February 2006-outside on Lake Tahoe-people thought we were crazy but the day was absolutely beautiful!  Flash to today, we now own our own home(well, technically the bank does...and will forever), we have an amazing son who is about to turn a year, and we are looking forward to the next adventures of this crazy adventure called life.  There is no one else who I would want by my side!!  I love you, Zippy, thank you for being an amazing father, an excellent husband, and my best friend. 

2006(couple of days before our wedding)

2010

Random

Grevin has had a little cold for the last couple of days so he has stayed bundled in his footie jammies. Other than his cough and chest congestion, he seems just fine! Here are a few of his favorite things lately....including the background 80's music. I was flipping through the music channels and he started dancing when I got to the 80's. He protested when I went to change it so lately it has been an 80s dance party at our house!

He found his sunglasses and loves to try to put them on...

He has also started to say "light"...well, it actually sounds like "lye-ah" but he points to what he means!

He has also started to put his head on the ground like he sleeping while he is playing. I am not sure if this is because his head hurts from the cold he has or if his teeth are bothering him...or if he takes after his dad and is just weird...

Here are some other random pictures, too...

 

  

  

I love that smile!

This diaper was made for walkin'!

Grevin has decided to take his first steps into toddlerhood. My baby is almost gone! He has been leaping from people to furniture for about a month and has been getting steadier day by day. He loves going back and forth between us as long as it suits him :) He also tends to go fast and fall face first (I think from using the walkers!) when he is in a hurry. When we put him in shoes, we had been putting him in size 3 because the 4.5 we have would fall off of his foot. We went to Stride Rite to see what size he was wearing and it turns out he is a 5! The 4.5 had been falling off of him because they were wides. I guess we won't be getting hand-me down shoes from Andrew anymore :( His mommy has such good taste in shoes, too! My heart almost stopped when we paid for these new first shoes...on sale they were $50! That would be great if he could wear them for a year but she said that he would grow about half a shoe size every two months until he is 3. If we do the math, at $50 a pair, 12 pairs by the time he is 3...that is $600. Hmm...I am thinking he can go barefoot...he really doesn't like wearing shoes anyways!

This is Grey walking when he gets tired of us making him go back and forth..and just wants to crawl away and play :)

What noise does a pig make?