The BIG 1st Birthday

Elliott celebrated his 1st birthday yesterday with the help of a few friends. He had a great time and got lots of gifts and some $$ from both of his grandparents in Utah! Check out the days events:

Elliott woke up from his nap a little grumpy and got ready for his party

He is unsure about the party hat

Elliott with his cake and cards (he is looking as photogenic as his father!)

His mini cupcakes and b-day cards

Elliott loved having everyone sing "Happy Birthday" to him

Getting a good taste of the cupcake

He became more interested in the wrapper

Mom and Elliott sharing some cake

SUGAR!

Mom helping Elliott open his presents

He loved his drum Dad got him!

Pippen even got in the party mood

Here is the party table.... I was going to put the cake on it but the wind blowing too hard!

I made this cute felt "Happy Birthday" banner and the wind kept knocking it down... I'll use it next year!

Elliott loves his Bee tambouring

Some party pictures of the night

Elliott and his neighbor friend, Kohji

Elliott was basking in his b-day glory

Akio playing on the hammock

More party pictures (notice the cute hanging lanterns I put in the tree)

Elliott the next morning.... WOW it looks like Christmas around here!

Elliott at 12 months

Here is Elliott at 12 months. This month he started clapping his hands, crawling, crawling and more crawling. His favorite toys are anything in the kitchen he can grab, anything that plays music and the vibrating bee (he learned to pul the string.) He still has no teeth, but I can defiantly see them coming in and he has had a few fussy nights that I think is due to teething.

P.S. I changed Elliotts 11 Month picture because the contrast was weird and it bugged me. HA!

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Here is Elliott playing with the pots in the kitchen with Taylor

Houston we have a crawler

Elliott crawled (normal crawl) for the first time today! Here is a video:

Here is a video of Elliott playing with the door stopper!

picture updates

of what Elliott is doing......

Elliott's first black eye

Sitting up in his bed

Standing up

Getting muscles

Feeding himself

Elliott at 11 months

What a crazy month for the ratboy and the family. Elliott had an ear infection and then a cold (which we all got) and also his first black eye!

A lot has changed, he is now crawling (well more like an army crawl.. he doesn't lift his butt) and he can sit up and pull himself up to standing position. He can also feed himself and likes little solid food..... but still NO teeth!

On the family side, I had finals this month so I was gone a lot, while Tay has a contract for hire job so we have been scrambling to find people to watch Elliott during the week! ARGH, when will things just be simple and easy!

Elliotts favorite toys right now: a spinning egg that lights up and random household things like the brush that gets hair of the furniture, measuring cups and spoons and the stopper behind the door.

Here he is at 11 months....1 more month until his birthday!

Here is a clip of Elliott doing the worm....