one year ago today

Jayden is one! Who can believe it? One year ago today we were in the hospital...in awe and wonder, exhausted, elated, scared to death. After 26 hours of hard labor, our sweet boy entered this world alert and screaming. There are no words to describe the wonder of watching your baby be born, of seeing them emerge. Ecstacy does not do it justice. It is incredible. In some ways it feels like yesterday we saw little Jayden's face for the first time, and in other ways I feel like I can't remember a time when he wasn't in our lives.

Jayden, we love you sweet boy and count ourselves extremely blessed to be your parents. You have filled this past year with joy and love we never thought possible!

Here are some cool things Jayden is doing lately:
- still crawling around like a crazy person
- cruising on everything
-standing on his own for a couple minutes at a time
- taking a couple steps but then will plop down on his butt. We think he'd be walking if he wasn't scared of it!
- he is off bottles entirely and drinking whole milk instead of formula now! such a big boy
- talking up a storm. his current words are: dad, hi, bye, mama, all done, ball (ba), basketball (ba-ba-ba), kittie (keeeeeeyyyy) and bird (buh)
- he also repeats lots of things randomly. today someone said, "bad bad bad" and he said, "Bad bad bad." He also has repeated "light", "lovey", and "grandpa" to name a few
- sleeping 12 hours a night and taking two good naps still. since being at my parent's house for the last week, he has started napping longer in the morning which is SO nice! :)
-eating all sorts of regular people food. his current faves are peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, raspberries, meatballs (really, all red meat), bananas, mashed potatoes, and bread
- plays peek-a-boo with the best of 'em

We have his check-up at the doc on Friday and will update everyone with his stats.