Saturday, June 11, 2011

Has it really been a year, already?


Fletcher turned one. It's really hard for me to believe.  I mean, I've watched it happen before my eyes, but it's gone so quickly!  I remember it all so vividly.  I tried so hard to cherish his babyhood, knowing from experience how quickly it can pass.  I'm so grateful I can be home full time and I'm the one who is the first face he sees in the morning and the last face he sees before he goes to sleep at night.  That I can be the one to dress him and feed him and change him and change him again. And as a result, we have this way of talking even though he can't speak yet.  But how can he be one already?

Minutes after he was born.  He grasped my finger as we met face to face for the first time.  June 10, 2010

First family picture 
Look how little he is!  

And those toes!!!

Meeting the crazy crew he'd been hearing for 9 months

A peaceful moment while still in the hospital

Sweet little guy sleeping in his bassinet at the hospital

Right before we left to come home

First Dr. Leland appointment when he weighed in at 8 lbs.

Tiny toes!

Two weeks old at the lake for Father's day (me looking very sleepy)

one month old Fletcher - cheeks filling out

Sleeping swaddled with arms up

Cat nap on Daddy-O in Colorad-O
It seems that Carter starting school and Kiefer in Preschool has made this past year go at warp speed.  The lunch making, bus stop drop, drop off and pick up drill made this past year a blur.  I remember clinging to Fletcher on Carter's first day of school telling him not to grow up too fast and so grateful I still had two, nearly three still at home with me.  The paradox of a Kindergartener and a two month old.  One leaving for the day, going on the big school bus, the youngest not quite sleeping through the night.  (but his momma being ok with that because she knows those night time feedings are the only solitude and mother-son alone time bonding that she would get!)  Then later in the school year, Carter discovering he has a loose tooth while Fletcher was just getting his first teeth.  The same ones!!  And at Carter's kindergarten graduation ceremony, I shed tears when they played the country music song, "Let them be Little"  I'm really trying! I'm trying to cherish these times. But they slip through my fingers too easily.  So leading up to his first birthday, I was preparing mentally that it was time to let go a little.  He's starting to crawl, getting busier each day and exploring more and more, which is all good.  But then he decided to wean himself, two weeks before his birthday.   I was not quite ready for that. But obviously, he was.  He'll always love me, of course.  But it's over. That mother-child bond, the link to pregnancy.  It's come to a close.  Now it's onto the next chapter.  It's probably best that he cut himself off.  And the sweetest thing is that every single time I've given him a bottle, the sweet boy has offered me a sip.  It makes me giggle and  makes me feel a little bit better.  

Happiness! Playing with the lid of a puzzle

Showing off his 3 teeth the top one is on the side!  Dr. Leland called him a vampire! :>

Playing in the grass at the boyz soccer game

Hey, what is this stuff?

Enjoying his first ear of corn!  Teeth help!


Birthday Breakfast with the Boyz club - 6-10-11

He had a pancake and some milk and enjoyed his party hat

Caught ya!

One and Ready to roll - on his birthday

Already cruising

Happiness in his bed!!

He's devoted to his blankie and his thumb!

Sweetness!

Weighing in at Dr. Leland's for his 1 year visit -he weighs 21 lbs.  What a difference a year makes!

His birthday cake


He had lots of help digging into his smash cake

Look at all the helping hands!  He loved his monkey banana cake

Such a big boy!  

Me & my little squirt

He enjoyed his presents (look at Kiefer wearing a bag on his head in the background!!)

This was too cute!  He kicked his feet up seeing Elmo!

In his jammies at the end of the party

Bathtime the other night

All "milky" as Carter calls it enjoying his bottle

He offers me a sip every time!! :)

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