My baby turned uno today. It’s funny. When London turned one, I felt like she was so grown up, but with Ashton, although he’s doing the same things she was, he still feels very much like my baby. Even so, he’s growing learning so much. He weighs a whopping 26 pounds! He’s come a long way in the last 6 or 7 months. He started out so skinny! Now he could be a sumo wrestler! In fact, some days I think that’s what he’s trying to do.

He loves to wrestle. If I’m lying down on the floor, he crawls to me as fast as possible and climbs back and forth over me, all the while screaming with delight. He’s not much of a laugher in the traditional sense. I get giggle sometimes, but usually his laughs come out more like squeals or screams. He’s still not walking yet, but he gets closer every day. He can balance on his own, but he gets nervous when he realizes he’s on his own. He also loves going outside. If a door is open, he’s out. He knows that doorknobs open doors and he tries really hard to reach them. He also really loves the bathroom. He figured out how to flush the toilet and thinks that’s a pretty cool accomplishment. Of course he loves his baths. He gets pretty mad if he sees the water flowing into the tub and he’s not in it to play. He now has 7 teeth (4 on the top and 3 on the bottom) and I think we’re getting close to the time he’ll need his first hair cut. It’s finally growing in!
Ashton also started talking, kind of. He says the obligatory “mama” and “dada” but I’m not sure if it’s just babbling. I’m sure, though, when he says “nana” that he’s talking about bananas. They’re his favorite food and whenever he sees one, he gets really excited and can’t stop saying “NANA! NANA!” I’m pretty sure I also heard him say “ball” today. His first really noticeable and coherent word was “ma” which means more. I taught him the sign for more so when he’s really excited and wanting more of something (mostly food) he claps his hands and yells, “MA! MA!”
To celebrate Ashton’s birthday, we planned on meeting Taylor’s parents and Denver at Peter Piper Pizza (kind of a smaller version of Chuck E. Cheeses) for lunch.

London was so excited about it that she announced it to her pre-school class and invited all of her friends. A couple of them came, which I didn’t mind. She had a great time, and I think Ashton did too. They enjoyed the food and the games together. Usually that place is not crowded at all, but today while we were there, three bus loads of kids showed up, making the experience not as enjoyable as it could have been. After lunch, Taylor’s family came home with us, where we had cupcakes that I made to look like Uno cards. Ashton, of course, enjoyed his grub.


Then he opened presents. We still have one for him to open, since he lost interest in opening more. Why would he want to open more things when he already had so many cool toys to play with? It was a nice little celebration and I’m glad we didn’t plan anything extravagant. Ashton was happy just the way things went.