Birthday Recap

Since I'm home with a feverish, coughing, snot-nosed one-year-old today, I might as well take advantage of naptime to write a birthday recap.  Don't worry - I think Davis will survive.  He's probably enjoying some of the perks that come along with being a sick baby, like extra Mommy cuddles (he has been saying "ma-ma-ma-ma" today) and being allowed to watch Sesame Street while sitting on the carpet with a bowl full of Cheerios (he seemed like such a big boy, doing that).  Although I must say, I'm extremely annoyed with whatever dummies couldn't figure out how to give their babies the correct dosage of the concentrated infant Tylenol drops, thereby causing the government to mandate a switch to non-concentrated infant liquid, which means you somehow have to get your baby to swallow three times as much medicine.  Argh!  Thanks a lot, people!  My shirt now smells like grapes from having Tylenol spit out all over me. Luckily, while he has had a cold, Davis was feeling pretty happy on his birthday!  Greg's parents were staying with us for the weekend, and Davis always enjoys getting extra attention.  We went to get his 12 month portraits done, which is always fun, although the little stinker wanted to crawl around instead of staying in a nice pose and it was hard to get him to smile while semi-looking at the camera - but there were no tears and we got some cute pics, so I count that as a success!  Then we had lunch at McDonald's and Grandma shared her french fries with him.  :)  Of course he enjoyed that!  By the time he woke up from his afternoon nap, my parents were here, Greg was home, and my sister soon arrived.  Let the birthday fun begin! Aunt Shalimar made Davis an awesome teepee to play in.  It can be used inside or outside and folds up.  Davis looooved it.  He crawled in there right away to have a look around. He thought it was fun to close the flaps and "hide," then open them up really fast - peek-a-boo! Davis' Uncle Jeff and Aunt Janelle came after work and we really got into the birthday presents.  His gift-opening skills could use some fine-tuning, but he started to get the hang of it after awhile! We had cake later on, out in our screened porch.  Davis wasn't sure what to do at first.  He finally reached out to grab one of the frosting balloons off of the cake and was bewildered.  He rubbed the frosting on the side of his high chair and didn't know what to do with his sticky hands.  I popped one of his hands into his mouth, he hesitated, then he stuck his hand back in and sucked on it, and figured out that it was good!  We cut him a piece of cake to dig into, and he picked up a huge chunk and took a big bite!  After that, there was no stopping him!  Mmm . . . chocolate cake = delicious! Davis was not as happy about getting the cake cleaned off his face and hands, but all in all he had a super day!  We are so glad that he was able to share the day with so many of our family members.  It's going to be a lot of fun (and a lot of work) having a one-year-old in the house!

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