Thursday, January 19, 2012

Bryce's 1st Birthday Party-The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Bryce had a Very Hungry Catepillar Party for his 1st birthday. Ten of his baby friends and couple of their siblings came to our house for a fun morning.
The catepillar cake and cupcake cake-it turned out very cute:)
For the food I did most of the food from the book and then Chickfila wraps and chicken minis for the kiddos.

Mommy and the birthday boy-he had 2 very cute Catepillar shirts for the party.


Some of the kiddos during parachute time
Bryce and Tyler
Andrea-reading the story
Happy boy
Making our catepillar craft-catepillar shakers!

Tyler (Mason's sister) and Skylar (Leila's sister)-2 pretty girls!
Tunnel time
Yummy cupcakes

Attempting to get a picture of all of the babies on the couch---didn't happen
Mia, Sierra, Skylar and Bryce
Bryce, Tyler, Zoe, Lincoln, Sophia (running away)
Bryce's 2nd shirt of the day with his girl Tyler:)

1st Birthday

Here are the pictures from Bryce's birthday. I will post his birthday party pictures next. In the morning I brought Bryce with me to work to Deliver Me Fit. He enjoyed playing with all the babies during class. After class we went to Gymboree class and met a few of Bryce's baby friends to play.
Bubble time-One of Bryce's favorite parts
That night Bryce opened his birthday presents and we had pizza, cake and ice cream (both of the boys LOVE ice cream).
Bryce enjoying the Zebra
Grant helping Bryce open some presents




Yummy cake!
Enjoying his spoon too
With Barbara and Pat (the boys' Texas grandparents).

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Happy 1st Brithday Bryce!

Happy 1st Birthday Bryce Andrew!! What a fun year! Bryce is so much fun and a joy to be around. Though he is still my sweet, happy baby...more of his toddler personality is showing each day:) He is very persistent and vocal these days about what he wants and doesn't want. Here are all of his 1 year updates....

Weight- 20 pounds 4 oz- 20% (I looked back and Grant weighed a pound more but they said that was the 10%-not sure how that works?)

Height-30 inches-50%- just like his brother

Head-19 inches- 90%-hehe -I don't think he has a big head:)

Clothes-12-18 month and shoe size is 4

Still wearing size 3 diapers

He has 6 teeth-4 on top and 2 on the bottom

-Milk..I stopped breastfeeding on December 23rd so Bryce has been on 3 sippy cups of whole milk (no bottles:) ) since then. He still likes it warmed in the microwave though.

-Food- He loves just about everything. If you give him a plate of food he will always eat all of the fruit first and then most of vegetables before he eats anything else. For breakfast he usually eats a waffle, yogurt and fruit. For lunch and dinner whatever we are eating.

-Still takes 2 naps a day-one in the morning around 9am (various in length from 30 minutes to 2 hours depending if we are home or not) and one in the afternoon around 2 (usually 2-3 hours). He goes to bed between 8-8:30pm and usually wakes up at 7am. When he wakes up he rarely cries-he usually sits in his crib and plays or "reads" his books. He just babbles away very content.

-Says Mama and Dada, but babbles a lot of other stuff we don't know.

-He still doesn't have much hair, but he does have longer hair in back that curls up. He may have blond curly hair like his Dad had when he was little.

-Still doing lots of crawling and cruising. He is getting into everything! He is still not walking yet.

-Favorites-Mom and Dad-loves to be carried around and lay on your chest (just like Grant-I love my cuddle bug boys). He loves to get kisses from Chief-he opens his mouth and gets really close to Chief's face until Chief licks him-he then giggles. So cute. Bryce still loves Grant to pieces, but now pushes him away or yells at him if he doesn't like what he is doing. He really enjoys his new ball pit from Christmas and his brother's trains. Unfortunately he also likes to play in Chief's bowls and mess with the water cooler. He still puts everything in his mouth:( Bryce also likes to stand at the back door and back window and look out.

-Dislikes-being strapped in the car seat and highchair!

I look forward to another wonderful year of watching my 2 boys grow:) Here are some of the preview pictures I got from Bryce's 1 year pictures. I will post more when I get the rest.








Monday, January 9, 2012

Bryce Meets his Cousin Zoey for the First Time

Hi Zoey! Look at me! Lift your head...
There you go. A little higher so I can see your face
Like this Zoey..
Yeah Yeah that's better. I can almost see you!
Ok forget it. Roll over and smile for the camera.

Hooray! I love my new cousin Zoey:)

Christmas-Part 3-Bama and Bampa's House

On Christmas afternoon/evening we celebrated Christmas with my family. Pretty much the whole family was at my parent's that night (aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings, etc-it was a full and crazy house:) ). Above is the first picture of all the little cousins together! The boys got to spend lots of time with their grandparents and I also got to see some friends I hadn't seen in a long time:) Bryce had his first trip to the ER while in Rock Island. I will have to get those pics from Andrew's phone to post-he was in a little peach hospital gown:(. Besides that -the boys did great on our Christmas trip home and we really enjoyed spending lots of time with family. That will probably be our last trip home during Christmas for a while so the boys can have Santa come to their house on Christmas morning. We are thinking of going home for Thanksgiving instead which we haven't done in forever!
Second try-so fun!!!! 5 kiddos under the age of 4
Bama and Bampa with their grandkids

Not such a great family pic but still had to post since it was XMAS



The family---back row Rachel (Brad's fiance), Brad, baby Zoey, Kennedy, Jerry, Susan, Gina, Paul, Me and Andrew. Front row Christine, Madeline, Grant, Mom, Caroline, Dad and Bryce

Loves his Fireman hat and boots to match his coat Santa brought him



Train ride at the mall



At Von Maur-my favorite department store-in their matching IL track suits. Love it!