Watch Jack Grow....the first year!!

I absolutely love that I took these monthly pictures during his first year. I love going back and seeing how he has changed. I love my little boy, my how this first year flew!!

Birthday Weekend!!

My Mom, dad, sister Sara and my sister Anna's family came and stayed the weekend with us. It was so much fun with lots of kids running around!! Jack loved having all his cousins around. They had so much fun playing. My mom bought all the kids matching Elmo pj's. We tried to get a group picture of everyone and this is the best we could do. I thought the picture turned out cute, it is hard to get two 2 year olds and two 1 year olds to sit still for a picture. They all looked so cute!!

Having fun!!

Saturday afternoon after the party my mom, Jack and I loaded up and headed to Montgomery for a fall photo shoot that I won from Meredith Sellars Photography. I was worried how Jack was going to do seeing as he had partied all day. She had such a cute set up with mums, pumpkins and a little red wagon. Jack did great and the pictures turned out wonderful!! These are just a preview:

Saturday evening once all the kids went to sleep we also celebrated my dad's birthday. He and Jack share the same birthday, how special is that?!! Saturday morning Rob put a boston butt on the smoker and smoked it all day. We had that for dinner along with a lemon icebox pie which is my dad's favorite. We also gave him an Auburn flag to hang down at the beach. We love you Daddy aka Papa!!

It was such a great weekend, getting to spend it with family. I absolutely have the best family and I am extremely blessed. I thank the Lord everyday for my special family!

having fun with Papa!

Aunt Sasee with her boys! Ellen would not sit for a picture

Jack had such a memorable first birthday. I can't believe his first birthday has come and gone so fast. Now to start thinking about his 2nd....ahhh I am not ready for that. I think I will enjoy one for a while :)!!

1st Birthday!!

Jack's actual birthday was Thursday September 27th. We started the morning off with a birthday waffle.

We also had fun playing with balloons.

He had a great day!!

Jack had a frog themed birthday on Saturday the 29th of September. We invited family and close friends.
All the decorations for the party were set up outside. How cute is this birthday banner?!! A good friend from my hometown made it and she did such a great job, she also made his inviations, she is one very talented woman!!

I set up the food outside under the covered part of our deck. I also hung a cute little monthly banner that I made to show how much he has grown over this first year.

For all the kids that came we had Jack's toys outside under a tent and also had a baby pool full of balls for the babies to play with. My sister also brought her wagon to ride kids around the yard.

For Jack's birthday Rob and I got him a little red car with a handle on it to push him around. He absolutely loved it and still loves it. Every day when we come home he usually wants to be pushed around the house in it and will make "vroom vroom" noises. SO cute!!

It ended up being a hot and humid day so we eventually moved the party inside to eat and open presents.
His cake turned out so so cute. A friend of mine from Montgomery made it and did such a wonderful job. If you need a cake for any occasion and are close to the Montgomery area then look up La's Cakes, she has a facebook page and does such great work.

Jack wasn't too sure what to think of his cake at first. We had a little mishap before he started digging in. I lit a candle and placed it in his smash cake for him to try and blow out. As soon as I set the cake in front of him, everyone singing Happy Birthday, he decides to grab the flame of the candle before I could get it away :(. After a few tears, he was ok and ready to tear into his cake. He loved it!!

Jack also enjoyed ice cream with his Pop!

Once the cake was finished we started opening presents. Jack and fun opening his gifts.

 

 

 

Jack had such a wonderful party. Thank you so much to everyone who came. You are all special to us and it meant alot for you all to be there. Also thank you so much to my mom for helping me get everything ready, I couldn't have done it without you! I still can't believe my baby is 1.

Twelve Months....One year!!

One year ago on September 27, 2011 at 1:50 am, our lives changed forever!! To see his birth story you can go here and here.

Our sweet Jack Leslie Mosley entered this world, wide eyed and screaming, he was ours, everything that we had hoped for times a thousand!

His smile, his noises, his every move has brought us a love and happiness we never knew until we became parents. We have been blessed by him and blessed that God has made this first year a very healthy year in his life.

I know everyone always says this, but this first year has flown by. I just can't believe that our tiny little baby is now 1. This year has been the best year of our lives. To become a mother has been the most amazing and rewarding experience of my life. I have always known that I wanted to be a mom, but being a mom to this little boy has been truly amazing.

At 12 months Jack is:

- He is crawling. He started crawling at 11 months. He is into everything and I mean everything. When he wants to get something he can move pretty fast.

- He has just started pulling up on things. He still hasn't gotten steady to pull up on everything but on most things he can figure it out.

- I put shoes on him for the first time this week. At first he wasn't too sure what they were, he just sat there looking and grabbing at them. He finally started crawling with them on but it took him a little bit to figure out how to pull up with them on. He looks like such a big boy to me in shoes.

- In the eating dept. he is completely on whole milk now. No more formula....YaY, and a little sad at the same time. I decided to go cold turkey with him. Instead of mixing formula with a little milk I figured we would just try giving him straight milk and seeing what he did, if he hated it then I would mix with formula. He loved it and he hasn't looked back! So cold turkey definitely worked for us switching him to milk. He has milk first thing in the morning, mid-morning, afternoon and before bed.
I have now started giving him pieces of an Eggo waffle in the mornings. It's the whole grain kind, I put it in the toaster and toast it for a few minutes and then tear it into little pieces for him. He has gotten real good at feeding himself now as far as pick up foods go. He only eats half a waffle. He is still eating oatmeal and a stage 2 fruit. At lunch he is eating a stage 2 veggie and fruit. We are starting to introduce stage 3 now, he's not quite sure about those chunks.

- He is only drinking out of sippy cups now. We took away the bottle when we started giving him whole milk. This made me a little sad. Until now he was still getting a bottle in the morning and right before bed and the sippy cups during the day. I think it was more me holding on to the bottle than him. He has done great with sippy cups :)!

- He no longer takes a paci. The only times before that he would have a paci would be at nap and bed time. Well we took it away and he has done good!!

- He says Dada a lot and will say MaMa every now and then. He can wave bye bye and every now and then will say it. That's about all he's doing in the talking department other then a lot of gibberish.

- He has just started blowing kisses, it's so cute.

- He is still wearing a size 3 diaper. He is wearing 12 months clothes in everything.

- He still sleeps great at night and has since he was about 3 months old. We have been very lucky. He goes to bed around 6 or 6:15 every night and wakes up around 6:15 or 6:30 the next morning.

- He is now going through a phase or at least I hope it's a phase where he is scared of strangers. Even people he sees every now and then he is scared of. If he doesn't know you, he is not going to let you hold him, touch him or even talk to him without crying. He is around people all the time so I'm not sure what is going on. Even if someone he doesn't know is in the room paying him no attention, he will not let you put him down. I am hoping this phase won't last long!

- He loves scrunching his nose. If you tell him No he will look at you and scrunch his nose, it's like he saying did you really just tell me No.

- He loves Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, we have it on every morning, that and Chuggington. He loves the hot dog song on Mickey Mouse. Usually Rob is home and when the song comes on he will pick Jack up and they will dance to it, it's so cute. Or if the song comes on Jack will be glued to the tv just smiling.

- His laugh is so contagious. It's the sweetest cutest sound you've ever heard.

- He has two teeth, both on the bottom with many more that I can see that are about to come in. He's been a little fussy with it but nothing terrible.

We have been so lucky. Jack has been great at transitioning to new things and this month has been a big month of transitions and Jack hasn't missed a beat. He is such an easy baby!!

Jack I really cannot believe that you are a year old. I know every one says it but the time has really flown by, it has gone much faster than I ever thought it would. You have such a great personality and are such a happy baby. You have brought so much joy to our lives. We enjoy watching you grow and change every day. You are our world Jack Leslie. Our lives were made complete the moment we laid eyes on you sweet boy. We look forward to continuing to watch you grow and learn new things. Jack you are loved more than words can even begin to describe. This first year has been more fun than your dad and I could have ever imagined. We love you sweet boy! Happy 1st Birthday!!! Love, Mama & Dada

Overalls!

Jack looking cute in his overalls this morning!! I could just eat him up!!

Our computer is down so I have not been able to update. I'm actually doing this from my phone. As soon as we get it fixed be looking for his 12 month post and a first birthday party post!!