Jonathan turned a year old April 13th!...and I'm just getting around to blogging about it...
We threw him a little party. We invited over some close families in our ward and had a great time! We had dinner, pumped some Disney tunes since Jonathan loves to dance to music, blew bubbles with a mega-bubble blower(the bubbles get HUGE. Jonathan loves it.), and of course opened presents and served cake and ice cream.
Here are Jonathan's best friends. Aren't they all just so cute? From left to right --Jonathan, Ella, Henry, Jane, and Ayla. You may not appreciate how Jonathan is actually looking at the camera in this one and not frantically trying to escape.
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| (Be sure to notice their adorable hats. My sister Candice made them. So cute. She can sew anything.) |
The following picture is how all the other pics we took looked.
All the other kiddos were perfectly content to sit and even smile for a photo but not our little rascal.
Welcome to my life :)
Jonathan is SO much fun. He has so much enthusiasm for life.
But he can be a bit bipolar. He laughs and gets hysterical with excitement over things he loves, and then a minute later he'll be screaming bloody murder out of frustration because he's not getting what he wants. This baby does not have a mellow bone in his body. We LOVE that about him, but are kinda hoping our next is a little more chill...
Here he is opening his presents:
He got a play phone (he's totally OBSESSED with Stephen and I's cell phones. I hoped this would distract him for always trying to get ours. It hasn't really worked, but he does love his phone)
This next picture were presents from his Aunt Candice. Cutest presents ever. Two matching corduroy vests with brown bowties, one for Jonathan and one for his baby brother due in two months.
Here's his cake: It took me forEVER to make. The writing on the top is pretty messy, I know - that's not what took forever. It was the SIX layers of multi-colored cake that took so long. I only had one cake pan so I had to cook each layer one. at. a. time. It turned out really cute, but frankly I don't think it was worth it.
We decided to follow tradition and give him his own piece that he could eat all by himself.
(Notice the colored layers of the cake.)
(Oh, and btw you're not allowed to call it Rainbow cake, even though that's what it is, because Stephen insisted that his son would not being having rainbow anything. I told Stephen that I love rainbows and am reclaiming them for straight people.)
As you can see though, he was WAY more interested in his phone than the cake. At first I was disappointed and kept trying to force him to try it, but then I realized there was something wrong with trying to MAKE your child eat fatty, sugar-saturated CAKE. So sorry there are no great pics of him covered in cake from head to toe with only crumbs left on the tray. It never happened.
But I stuffed my own face full of cake for him.
Sorry - no pics of that though.
These next pictures are a few we took a few days after his year mark.
You'll notice he's walking now! He's been taking steps on his own since 10 and half months or so, but now (starting at about one week after his birthday) he's actually walking on his own. I didn't realize the process would be SO LONG until having a child of my own. Apparently first steps and full-fledged walking can be months apart. It's taken him almost two months to feel confident enough to let go of things and just walk somewhere on his own. Now he just walks around all the time, sometimes in circles, sometimes pacing in and out of rooms with no clear objective -- it's like he's so happy to be walking finally that he just doesn't want to stop. It's so cute.
Jonathan and his Daddy. Love these handsome boys.
Oh, and remember my blog about the dent he got on his forehead a couple months back? You'll notice it's still there. Our Dr said it should go away, but it's not for sure. Geesh. Maybe I wasn't overreacting as badly as I thought I was if the dent ends up being permanent.
Jonathan in the new suit that Grandma and Grandpa Fielding sent him for his birthday. It looks so cute on him.
And now for his 1 year stats:
Head circ: 19 inches; 93rd %tile
Height: 33 inches; off the charts
Weight: 28.1 pounds; off the charts
The Dr gave me a chart that has lines representing the different percentiles for everything, and he is literally off the charts for his height and weight. I asked if I should do anything about it --like start giving him non-fat milk instead of whole -- but she said it's nothing to worry about since his weight is proportional to his height (they're BOTH off the charts) -- he just weighs a lot because he's tall.
Since then, we've been calling him Baby Giant.
