Birthday Part 1.

The reason I say Part 1 is because I wasn't in charge of my camera at the party so I didn't get any good pics of him with the cake and such...they will be emailed to me later this week and I will post. I am amazed at how fast the last year went. We went from not really knowing what we are doing to still not really knowing what we are doing! Everyday is a new surprise and I can never wait to see what that surprise is! We went from a pretty fussy baby to a very happy toddler and I couldn't be happier. Everyday he does something new to amaze us, something new to make us fall more in love with him. Zane, if you ever read this someday; please know that you mean the world to your mommy and daddy and everyday we thank God that we were blessed by you and that we can't wait to see what fun adventures lie ahead. We love you buddy more than we can ever show you. Thank you for being you.

The night before his big party while we were decorating!


A special toy that will stay at grandma and grandpa's house to play with there.


Zane's personal cake made by Josh!


In a sea of gifts!


Still opening gifts!


A little over stimulated and not loving the hat so much!


Having some downtime after everyone left!


It was a great 1st birthday party, thank you to everyone who came and thank you so much for all of the wonderful gifts. It was a great time had by all I think! Be on the look out for part 2 of this post so you can see some mad cake eating skills by Zane!

Birthday lunch.

Zane and I drove out to Josh's work and met up with him for a birthday lunch on Friday. Zane turned 1 on Friday and Josh turned 31 today (Nov 2). It was a fun lunch with both of my birthday boys!!





Here is Zane getting in good with the owner of Seattle Ferrari/Maserati (Josh's work place)...maybe Zane thinks if he turns on his cuteness he'll get one of his own to drive someday!!

Halloween part 2

Here are a few more pics of Zane on Halloween! We met up with my friend Christina and her daughter Brooklyn and for some reason anytime Brooklyn cries, Zane starts to cry. He must have some secret bond with her because other kids cry around him and he could care less, but for some reason as soon as Brooklyn starts to cry he gets so sad. Must be true love already!!





We also stopped by my mom's work and she had a birthday present for the little monkey!

Happy Halloween/Birthday Zane!

Zane's turned 1 yesterday on Halloween!! Here are a few pics of him in his costume. I'll have birthday pics later...once I've recovered from his party and have time to download them all! For now, enjoy our little monkey.

Update on "people food"!

Newsflash: Zane ate almost an entire grilled cheese sandwich tonight for dinner! This is huge!!!! Slowly, but surely we will stop buying baby food!

All dressed up and...

We actually had somewhere to go! We had a formal event at Josh's work tonight to we dropped Zane off at my good friend Christina's house and away we went. It was a nice chance to get away!



Afterwards, we picked up Zane and headed to IHop where he enjoyed his first bites of eggs and he loved them (yeah, for people food). He also enjoyed himself some pancakes too!!

Full Speed Ahead!

We flipped Zane's carseat around this weekend, he seems to really like it! We are a few days shy of his 1st birthday, but he is well over the weight requirement and so we figured why not...what difference is a few days going to make! His poor legs were crammed into the back of the seat before and that can't be safe, so flipped around he went! One big thing I notice is how his voice carries now...now that it is projecting straight ahead instead of being muffled by the backseat! I love to hear him "sing" to the songs on the radio though, so I am all for his un-muffled voice!!

Our big boy!!