Grady's 1st Birthday Weekend!

Grady had a wonderful First Birthday! He woke up very happy as you can see and truly enjoyed his day! We had a little party for him at the house that night and our best friends, Zack and Katy, came to visit for the weekend with their two kids, Addie and Harper. It was wonderful to have time with them and catch up. Grady loved having friends over the whole weekend to play with.

The Birthday Boy! Linus has to get extra snuggles in with his blanket.

Richard made sure that I decorated with the birthday sign and curled streamers (just as his mom did when he grew up). We also had the streamers on the stairs and hanging from Grady's bedroom door.

We went to the grocery store to pick up his birthday cake.

He is now in his big boy carseat and facing forward! He loves to snuggle with his blanket in the car.

Opening presents from Mama and Dad!

Dad taught him how to unwrap gifts.

He loved his new stuffed animal.

Grady sent me flowers! Read the card below.

I cried, it was so sweet!

Cousin James came to the party!

HAHA! You girls should know better than to take pics with my camera! I'll always post them! Love you Sarah and Rosanne!

Andrew and Grady found Mrs. Lindsey very interesting!

Aunt Rosanne and James

Grady's friend Jack.

The cake eating started out slow and not too messy, but . . .

it got very messy!!!

Everyone was hanging out while Janet and I took Grady upstairs for a bath.

When I came downstairs I let Grady play while I cleaned up the kitchen. I went to clean up the cake area and found Grady like this! He thought it was so funny and probably thought this was what he was supposed to be doing. So, we had bath #2!

Uncle Jamie and James

Me, Sarah, Harper and James

Zack was pooped out! How sweet that he wanted to snuggle with teddy!

Then the guys decided to rest in our room and discuss where we should hang a TV in our bedroom.

This was most of Saturday....Grady chasing Addie.

Me with Addie and Harper! I love my girls!

Grady thought Addie was hilarious!

Pause the music on the right to listen to Grady laughing at Addie.

Bunco Pool Party!

We went to a pool party with my Bunco/school teacher friends. We had a great time just hanging out and seeing everyone and all of their babies. I didn't get as many pictures as I wanted to because I was wet and in the water most of the time. Here are a few a got.

Grady and his best buddy Jake! Grady loved Emily and kept pointing to her nose.

Grady also loved Marley, Jennifer's dog.

Giving Marley a kiss.

Happy Birthday Grady!

Grady is one year old today! We can hardly believe how fast this wonderful year has flown by! We have enjoyed every second with him and thank God for this blessing everyday. Grady continues to get faster and faster with his crawling and cruising around tables, walls or anything he can hang-on to. He can stand alone for a few seconds and even took his first step the other day! He hasn't taken more than one step at a time. He is saying a few words now. "Ste" for Steve for the guy on Blue's Clues, "bye-bye" and he waves bye-bye, "dite" for light, and of course mama, dad dad and naaa naa (when he's upset) are still his favorites. He can point to his head, ears and nose if you ask him. He can also point to the lights and speakers in a room if you ask him. For some reason he really likes lights and speakers. He also loves to put his finger into holes and of course is always sticking his finger in his ears and now nose (lovely, I know). He also loves to give hugs and kisses. We are absolutely, completely, unconditionally, head-over-heels in love with Grady. Our hearts hurt at times because of how great our love is for him (I'm sure only other parents will understand that). We just don't want him to grow up and it's happening way too fast! Hey ladies, want to dance with me?

I just want to grab and kiss those chubby checks!

The last few pics in this outfit were hard to get. He was done sitting still.

Yes, that is your ear Grady.

Finally got a good one in this outfit.

AND, we're done!

I just need my blanket now or anything soft will do! He was out before I got out of the parking lot and is still asleep! I think we wore him out.

Lots of playdates this week!

This was a very busy, but fun week! Grady had three playdates! On Tuesday Lauren and Jake came over to play and brought him some birthday presents. Those three love to play together and crawl all over each other. It's so cute! On Wednesday we had a lot of girls from our Sunday School class to come over with their babies. There were two girls that are 2 years old, 5 small infants and Grady. Of course Grady is the terror of that group. 2 year old girls are so sweet and gentle and of course the newborns are too. Then you have Grady who wants to tackle, kiss, hug and crawl all over everyone there (and if we try to stop him he gets really angry and wants to bite....I don't know where he learned it from or how to stop it, someone help! We are trying everything!). He doesn't get that only adults and kids his exact age enjoy his hugs and kisses. I put him down for a nap shortly after everyone arrived and I was able to enjoy holding some of those sweet babies! Today we are going to a pool party with my teacher friends and see more kids! I will post those pictures later. Then Friday we have some people coming over for his birthday and our best friends Zack, Katy, Addie and Harper and Aunt Roseanne will be here for the weekend! We can't wait!

Grady and Jake Grady and Lauren

Lauren crawled into Grady's megablocks dump truck!

There were toys everywhere and Grady and Jake both wanted the old cell phone!

The Wednesday playdate . . . Lindsey and Jack! This guy just turned 3 months old and is already rolling all over the place!

Laura and Knox

Ashley, Laura, Knox, Heather and Asher (this was our day...just ooohing and ahhing over the babies)!

Grady with his mouth open and ready to give out some kisses!

Aunt Sarah had lots of love to give Grady and mainly was helping to distract him from jumping all over the other kids!