Our One Year Old in action

Teddy had his one year appointment with the pediatrician on Tuesday. His ear infection is improved and he seems to be thriving overall. Here are some stats for Teddy at one year:

Weight: 22.2 lbs

Height: 29 inches

Teeth: 12!!!

(Yes, he has four on the top middle, four on the bottom middle, and four molars)

As I mentioned earlier, he took his first steps on his birthday. He is babbling most of the time and saying a few words that make sense (like Ball and Uh-Oh). He also says Mama and Dada a lot. He loves to play with his toys and he continues to be a very social little boy.

So, our new computer has all kinds of cool things on it- including imovie. My dad took video on Teddy's birthday, and captured Teddy taking a step, but the video was over 3 minutes long. So I played around with it in imovie and made this little video. Hope you enjoy it:

Teddy's One Year Old Photos

We took Teddy for his one year pictures on Friday. He did a great job and I can't believe how "grown up" he looks in them!

Teddy and his hug me bear:

Teddy says, "How you doing...?":

The family:

Shae and his mini-me:

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Happy Birthday Aunt Shelley

Teddy wants to say "cheers" and wish his beautiful Aunt Shelley a very Happy Birthday!

Teddy understands how Shelley feels having her birthday so close to Christmas. He wants her to know that he thought of her today and he hopes she had a very special day!

Teddy also wants to thank Aunt Shelley along with Uncle Matt, and cousins Finley and Harper for the awesome chair they sent him. He loves it:

Teddy also says, "GO HAWKEYES!" He loves that they have won EVERY bowl game they have ever played during his entire life!

Here's a quick video to show you just how much Teddy likes his new trampoline... I mean chair:

Teddy is ONE!

Teddy is ONE YEARS OLD! The year has flown by and it is amazing to think how much he has changed and grown. Shae and I are thankful every day for the wonderful blessing that he is.

For his birthday (or maybe it was for Christmas) Teddy got his first ear infection. We had no idea his ear was bothering him, but he had a lingering cough that wouldn't go away, so I took him in on Monday to the doctor. One look in his ears and she said he needed an antibiotic, so our birthday boy is on meds. Hopefully he will feel better soon. A more exciting "first" happened today, on his birthday. Teddy took his first steps! He did it several times, though no more than two steps at a time. I guess he decided now that he is one, he needs to start walking.

Although we are having Teddy's birthday party this coming weekend, we celebrated tonight with local family. Here is my attempt at a teddy bear cake:

Teddy is wearing the adorable outfit his Aunt Miriam made for him. He is riding on his new Thomas the Train:

Proud mom and dad with their ONE YEAR OLD:

Although I made carrot cup cakes from scratch for Teddy... he was not very interested in eating them.

The pictures are deceiving. After this shot, he refused to touch the cupcake at all. Hmm.... maybe he is not Shae's son after all....

Teddy was happy though when he was set free from his high chair:

Present time:

What a lucky little boy. We can't wait to hear the music he will make from the instruments we gave him:

Happy Happy Birthday little Teddy!

Teddy's First Christmas

Not only did Teddy have a great first Christmas, but it was supposedly the first "white Christmas" in Atlanta since 1882. What a lucky little boy. Here he is excited to go see if Santa came to visit him:

Teddy must have been a very good little boy! Check out the awesome stocking his Great Aunt Judy made for him:
Teddy got this cool toy from Machelle. He loves it and "walks" all over with it:

After a nice lazy morning at home, we went to a neighbor's house for brunch. Here are the Hoscheks on Christmas:

Of course we decided to go for a walk in the white snow. I'm not sure why the pictures came out so dark... it was not dark outside yet.

Here's a short video of Teddy with his new walking toy:

December is for parties and celebrations!

I've probably mentioned how hectic/full December is for us. Between celebrating Chanukah and Christmas, we also had our wedding anniversary. And of course, Teddy's birthday is right around the corner. That means December is full of lots of parties and celebrations. Right before we went to the beach, Teddy and I had fun at the Moms Club Holiday party. Here Teddy hangs out with his buddy Daniel:

There is a little boy we met at the Halloween party who is a few months younger than Teddy. At the Halloween party he and Teddy had on the same costume except Teddy was a bear and Ryan was a dog. I had to snap this picture when we saw Ryan again at the Holiday party. Do you think they called each other to plan what to wear?

At the end of the party I was helping clean up. I glanced away, and when I looked back at Teddy, guess where I found him?

By the enormous try of left over chicken nuggets... of course!

The day we got back from the beach we had about two hours to shower/rest before we headed to my friend Wendy's annual Christmas Dessert party. Even though we were exhausted from the travel, we had tons of fun visiting with everyone... and eating dessert of course. Here are Teddy and Shae before we headed to the party:

(Yes, in case you did notice, Teddy has ONE "dress up" out fit. Same one he wore to the last party. Same one he'll wear to the next party too. You'll probably see it again if we take pictures at the Christmas Eve Party).

On Sunday we went to our friend Luke's 3rd birthday party at Chuck-E-Cheese. I was thinking we would just go for a little while and Teddy would look around at all the stuff. I didn't realize how much fun he would have with all of the little rides and games! In this first picture Teddy rides with Bob the Builder:

He also enjoyed driving:

And of course he liked the pizza:

But he REALLY liked his first taste of birthday cake:

YUMMY!

Now that Chanukah is over and we are home from the beach, we finally had a moment to put up our Christmas tree:

It didn't take long. But at least it is small enough to put out of Teddy's reach!

On Monday night Shae and I went out for our 2nd anniversary. My mom took a picture of us before we left:

We hope everyone is doing well and has a wonderful holiday!