Happy First Birthday!

Dear Munchkin,

Happy First Birthday!  I can't believe it's been a whole year since you came into our lives.   And I'm so glad you are here.   It's been a such a rollercoaster of a year.  With arriving 7 weeks early, the heart surgery, the stroke  and the seizures you keep scaring us half to death.  We love you so much and we wish that none of that had happened to you.

You're a trooper though.  You have to take awful tasting medicine every day and do exercises you don't like and yet you are such a happy little guy and you have smiles and charm for everyone.

One smile from you makes my day.  It just lights up the room.  And your snuggles are the best ever.   Even your snorts are pretty cute too.

You're growing into a little boy now and aren't going to be our baby boy for much longer.

Your Dad and I love you very much.  Have a Happy Birthday!

Love Mom

Happy Almost Birthday

December 11th was a much better day today than it was last year.  Last year I had gone to the hospital to wait for my wee  guy to be born 7 weeks early and have some heart surgery.    I was a little on the worried side there (well a lot).

Today however we had a birthday party for our Munchkin.  He's got a bit of a cold and we recently changed his medication so he was one sleepy boy.  So sleepy in fact, he fell asleep in his father's arms just as we were getting everything together for the Happy Birthday Song and cupcake.  We sang anyway.  

Sadly I seem to have had a malfunction on the video I was taking.

Moral of the story???  Don't try to hold the cupcake and shoot the video at the same time. 

Click here for friend's Blackberry version of the video.  This one was held steady.

Tomorrow on his actual birthday we will try again with the cupcake and see if he has some.  And we'll have his dad do the video this time.   I can't believe he's going to be a whole year old tomorrow.  Where did the time fly.

Tooth Number 7

It looks like tooth number 7 has made an appearance.  It's one of the lower teeth on the right side.  It also looks like tooth number 8 is ready to make an appearance right beside it.  We aren't surprised.  He is a drooly drooly mess.  We are kind of wondering if a bunch of other ones aren't making themselves ready as well.  We shall see.

How the Time Flies

Wow, is it December already?  Where has the year gone?  My little baby is going to be a whole year old soon.  It has been a whirlwind and adventure.

Big changes are happening next week.  He's starting daycare.  I won't have my wee little guy around all day anymore.  I have a feeling I am going to have a harder time with it than he will.

This morning we had a really wonderful snuggle on the couch.  I guess that will be the last leisurely weekday morning snuggle we're going to have for a very very long time.  He was so warm and small and snuggly.

Santa Claus Parade

Today we went to Robbie's first Santa Claus Parade.  It was pretty fun.  He slept through a lot of it.  In fact it was kind of funny....He slept through the air horns on the 18 wheelers and the sirens and horns on the police cars but woke up to one of the bands.  Go figure. 

He seemed to have fun.  It was more for us than him really.  You could see though that he was following the action .  We didn't stay for the whole parade as it was chilly out and his parents were cold.  We didn't dress as warmly as we dressed him. 

It was lots of fun though and hopefully the start of a tradition.

11 Months Old!

Where has the time gone?  He's such a big happy boy now.  Pretty soon we'll have a 1 year old little boy.  He won't be my baby anymore (well he'll always be my baby).

We had such a busy day today that this was one of the only photo we took today.

Lest We Forget

Today we took our little Munchkin to his first Remembrance Day ceremony.  We went to the ceremony down at Fort York.  It was a beautiful day and a wonderful ceremony.  We wanted to start him young on remembering.