A Very Happy Birthday to My Baby

Chase turned 1 today. I couldn't help but feel a little sad that a whole year has passed and I am one year closer to losing him. 17 more years and he will be out of the house...but at the same time, I am looking forward to him getting older. It will be nice to have him talking then I will have someone to converse with during the day!

We took him to the lame aquarium here yesterday. Today I gave him a present every few hours and made him a yellow cake with chocolate frosting. He loved it! I was worried he wouldn't even touch the cake just like most other food but he was eating it right up. He has his 1 year appt. Dec. 9th. I will share his stats when I find them out. I still haven't made the switch over to whole milk. I don't know what I will do, his whole diet is basically still formula with some juice and fruit each day.

Here are some things he is doing at 12 months:

-He loves standing up at the fridge and licking it for some reason. My fridge constantly has little handprints and drool on it.
-He is starting to point. When we went to the aquarium he was pointing at some of the fish
-He is standing up on his own for longer periods of time and will even take a step or 2 before falling down...walking will happen before I know it!
-I am almost positive he knows the word dog (well it comes out as da. But he says it whenever Bentley comes around and then pets him or grabs his tale after he says it. But then that would mean his first word wasn't mom...)
-He imitates the squeaking noises on the baby einstein movies...it makes me laugh!
-Whenever I turn the bath water on he starts screaming in excitment and crawls to the bathroom so fast no matter what else he was doing.
-He imitates me when I put my hands in the air and say yay.
-He loves opening up his cd player and taking the cd out then putting it back in.
-He is able to climb down off our couch without hurting himself
-He has a major obsession with my spice cabinet. He will sit in front of it and stay busy for quite some time just taking out all my spices.

Happy Birthday Chase. Mommy and daddy love you sooooo very much. You fill our lives with joy and fun and lots of laughs!

Pictures to come of our festivities.