Tommy Turns One

On December 28th, my little B-boy turned one. I still can't believe he is one already. We did not do much, just a small party with family. Grandma Strader, Erline, Charisse and Dan and their girls, Ireland and Eydra were there. We ate tacos and had some very yummy cupcakes from a place called So Cupcake in Salt Lake. They are really good!!!!! Then Tommy opend his presents. He had a lot of fun playing with the tissue paper. He has grown so much. He even mastered walking the week before his birthday and then mastered how

to go down the stairs a week later. That was nice. We were able to put the gates away!! They really can be a pain. He loves to jabber on and has the cutest wrinkeled up nose, squinty eyed, showing his big choppers, smile!! He is such a joy. He absolutly adores Charlee and they have a lot of fun together. She has been a really big help with him. He can wave bye or hi and he even tries to say hi when waving. He will wave and say "Haaa" He is going to be just as smart as his sister. So now to explain the tree.

I have a cousin who's daughter was born right after Christmas and for her birhtday they take down the ornaments off the tree and put up balloons. I always thought that was a great idea. (Thanks Stephanie.) So when I was preggo with Tommy, that is what I thought I would do. So the day after Christmas I took down all the crap off the tree and put up balloons and streamers and put bows on top of the tree and then I put his presents under neath. (Those are brown balloons, they look black.)
It definatly made it feel more like a

birthday and not Christmas, plus Charlee had fun helping me put it all up and Tommy loved to pull it all down. It was a great day!! I love him so much and so grateful he came to join our family!! To think that we thought that maybe Charlee would be our only one since it was not easy to get preggo the second time! Here he is after eating a red velvet cupcake. What a sweet boy!!!!