Joshua is ONE YEAR OLD today!!!

Today is Joshua's first birthday!!!  I have been holding back tears all day so far and now I'm just bawling.  I can't believe he's already one. Time goes by so fast!!!  It seems like only a few weeks ago that I visited him in the NICU for the first time.  He was so tiny.  He is such a sweet little boy and I am so so so lucky to be his mother.  Wyatt teases me because Josh and I already have our moments.  We're a little too similar he and I but I love him with all my heart.  He's so cute running around the house growling and getting into things  His crying everyday when his daddy goes to work.  He loves people and attention and love.  He is so loving and always giving hugs and kisses and then running off to his next adventure.  I wish he could just stay this little forever.  His cute little brown eyes and funny facial expressions.  I feel like I don't remember the last year nearly enough.  I'm sure it'll only be worse someday when he's leaving for college and his mission.  I wish I could hold onto him a little longer, hug him a little more and just remember these moments forever.

My mom came for Josh's birthday and we had a little party for him.  He/We are so lucky to have all these amazing people who love and support us!  It was a crazy day.  We didn't have too much to do- but long story short,  I accidentally turned some of my mom's hair a purple-y color and we had to fix it in time for the party.lol. Quite the experience.  It's back to it's normal beautiful color.  Thank goodness.  Thanks to my sister Sarah's help in putting almost everything together while I fixed my mom's hair- we were ready in time for the party:)  My mom went home this morning.  I was so grateful to have her here.  I have the most wonderful mother in the world!!!  I am more and more amazed the older I get, at how my mom has done the things she's done.  She is incredible and it was so wonderful having her here.  I'm so sad she had to go home.  We had such a fun time though.  So much of our family came to the party making it a blast!!!  My mom, Sarah, Ryan, Roger, Mara, Morgan, Riley, Talia, Garrett, Kelly, Hallie, Courtney& Rich and their adorable kids, Jenny Laura and Christy.  It was a blast!!!

The first real cake I've ever made.  I was so nervous with the amount of time we had, but it turned out to be so so so easy!!!  I don't think I'll ever do one this tall again though...

Josh's animal cake!!!

Adorable cake that my sister Sarah made for Josh's birthday.  So Cute!!!  She is so so so great at things like this!!!

He just wanted to pull all the animals off the cake

As long as he was holding onto an animal and had that huge cake in front of him, he was happy happy happy and didn't make a peep in that highchair.

The truck Roger and Mara gave him.  He loves it!!!  He was so sad when they had to take it away to open it for him!!!

Thomas the train set from Rich and Eileen.  He was dying to get his hands on this thing!!!  It's battery powered and he just thought it was the coolest thing ever!!!

Grandma Curran sent him the cutest little book, piano and musical lion.  He carries that lion around the house for half the day because it sings twinkle twinkle little star.  That is his favorite song so far.  Grandma Heathcote got him some adorable plaid pants and TOMS:)  So cute!!!  I can't wait for him to wear them!!!  They're still a little too big.  It'll be perfect though, cause they'll fit around the time his old ones die.  He's so sad to have his grandma gone.  It was nice for her to be able to spend some one on one time with her.  He sure loves his Grandmas and cousins!!!

First time mom's and the split lip

Yesterday was a crazy day.  I had a YW mtg in the morning.  Decided to make sugar cookies, rolls and homemade yogurt.  My good friend Mindee came over to visit.  Was in charge of Mutual that night.  So back tracking...  I've been thinking for the last week or so that I should get rid of our coffee table.  Put it away in a closet somewhere so that we'll have more room in our family room and Josh can have more room in general.  I however have strange ties to my coffee table and keep putting it off.  So yesterday while Mindee and I are visiting, Josh falls and hits his mouth on the coffee table.  Blood is everywhere, his mouth is full of it and it looks really deep. A few of my siblings have split their lip and gotten stiches...  So I take him in for stitches or super glue or whatever.  I'm thinking how lucky I am that it happened at like 4:20 on a friday instead of 5 on a friday and while Mindee was visiting nonetheless- considering I don't have a car anymore.  So we go in and nothing.  They don't even charge me for the consult. It takes about 10 min- including the drive.  Boy do I feel dumb.  Here I am thinking how great it is that everything worked out- and then I find out I didn't even need to take him in.  Well, here's to first time mom's. haha:)

Issues Lately

Josh started walking a couple weeks ago, but I've been having issues. It seems I'd met my maximum blogging limit. I had to erase some old entries but now vimeo isn't working for me. Issues issues.

One of Josh's new favorite things is to walk around the house with bread

I have now decided that when Josh is still tired but won't go to sleep or stop whining- he can watch a movie- for sanity's sake- this is how he likes to watch it.  In his chair with his lion, blanket and most importantly the remote.