One Year of MDG

Our little baby is a big boy!

It seems like only yesterday this tiny little being sprang into our lives, melting our hearts and destroying our sleep. And yet, here we are a year later, unable to fathom our lives without this toddling little music-loving, kiss-giving, drool-sputtering boy.

As with PDG, we kept the celebration pretty low key, with just a couple friends and then Mama and Papa H.  MDG devoured the entirety of his cupcake so quickly and carefully I found myself looking around for where he might've dropped it. His big brother and friend did manage to open his gifts for him when the grownups were distracted, but a little retaping and then MDG got a turn as well.  All in all, a simple birthday success.

As for what he's up to...

MDG took his first walk across the room later in the day on his 11 month mark.  He'd been toddling a couple steps here or there, but from that first walk onward, his lopsided crawling became a thing of the past.

His third top tooth poked through last month, with hints of more just barely under the surface. It seems enough to get him interested in meat - which it's weird that he doesn't love considering his carnivorous brother and father. Otherwise, still a good eater and an intense milk guzzler (which the doctor kindly suggested we start to curb back from his whopping 35oz/day intake recently)

J-Man cut off his hair in anticipation of the birthday (though not before Christmas Card pics) Lollipops calmed the crying at times, but clearly not 100%.

Oh, but his sleep is finally good. Like, for real good. Which is only making this weird nostalgia I have for pregnancy and more babies all the more confounding.  No - we still don't plan on having more. But, this is the exact age PDG was when I got pregnant with MDG and now I remember why it was so easy to jump back into that madness. When they sleep and give kisses and eat food and get excited to see you at the end of the day, why wouldn't you want more?

Except, you know, money and time and a billion other totally acceptable reasons.

So for now, it's total toddler takeover in the G house.