Oakley - 1 YEAR!

Happy birthday Oakley! 

 

Can't even believe it has been a year since you were born! That year sure flew right by. Seriously could not imagine our lives without you. You make our family complete. Just the other night, Harlen came home super late from being out with Grandma Mary and she came running in the door saying, "Where's my sweet chubby boy? Where's my Pokley?!" even though she knew you were asleep, she was way too excited to not see you right when she walked in the door. We all just love you to pieces. 
In the passed 2 weeks you have really changed and developed new skills. You have taken a bunch of steps here and there and its so darn exciting! The amount you talk and babble and look right at people and tell them things is amazing. You pick up my phone, put it to your ear and say your version of HI! Or you grab it and look right at it and smile and try and kiss it because that's what we do when we FaceTime daddy. You have become quite shy and will hide your face or grab on to me or daddy whenever anyone tries to talk or touch you. Hopefully you will come out of your shell more and more. You have been eating more food lately. You still don't eat much but I notice when I put food on your high chair tray you make an attempt to really eat some of it now as opposed to just playing with it and you have started to really like the squeezy pouches of fruit and veggies.
Sleeping is going well for you. You usually take 2 naps a day. One around noon for a couple of hours and then a cat nap in the late afternoon. You are still nursing 4-5 times a day. You are wearing size 2-3t. You can wave, give high 5's, clap, and are understanding so many words.
This last week you had hand, foot and mouth disease. It was a rough 4 or 5 days. You were such a trooper and only had a fever and were really down for a day or 2 and then it was just waiting for the horrible rash to go away. The day before your birthday you woke up to completely healed skin!
The day of your birthday (we opted out of a party for you because we thought a party might be too crazy for your calm and shy personality), instead we had breakfast together, and then after nap we went to the Perot Museum downtown. You had the best time. You got to touch and feel different things, climb, explore and discover. We all had the best time. After, we let you open your presents, although sister really helped in that department and then we did your smash cake. You were not a fan of the cake. Since then, I have discovered you only like the cake part and not the icing. Anyway, it was a great day celebrating you.
Such a great year, such a great day and man are we lucky. Hope you had a wonderful day. We love you so very much!

His last sleep before he turned one.

Super fast flipagram

Couple hours old Oakley last year. I can still smell him. Feels like just yesterday.

Museum fun!

 

 

Family picture July 20th 2013

Family picture July 20th 2014

In the sports area, you had to wait in line to try out the equipment o have your speed measured and you were freaking out just to get your hands on a football.

Last monthly sticker :(

Presents!

Oakley didn't like the smash cake, but sister sure did!

No more cake!!

Love you, Oakley. Thanks for making the past year so sweet. You're ONE!!!

First July 4th as a Family of 4

Happy 4th of July!

 
Tons of fun this 4th of July as a family of four. Last year I was super pregnant as we were watching fireworks as a family of 3 and this year little man was enjoying the fireworks with us. It was a couple of really late nights for the kids, but we were able to watch fireworks on the 3rd and the 4th, light some sparklers, have some ice cream, a picnic, and hang out with some good friends. Such fun! The rest of the weekend we plan to spend swimming and "being lazy", as Harlen says. Guess we've been keeping busy because every few days she will ask me if the next day we can just be lazy or have a lazy day. Her favorite thing is if I tell her she doesn't have to put clothes on for the day! lol. The little things. She loves her some play dates and adventures, but hanging out at home with brother and making a mess of their toys is lots of fun too. 

Crafts from the Friends and Fireworks camp!

Mini 4th of July parade at school

Ready for the parade!

All her camp friends and teachers on the last day

Frontiers of Flight Museum in the Control Tower

Co-Piloting

They had tons of fun playing with the old plain equipment

Harlen kept practicing how to buckle and unbuckle the airplane seatbelt

Walking around the cock pit with Aunt Jess

Reading about airplanes

This boy had big fun!

This was the coolest play thing. Walk into the plane with lots of pretend things inside and then a slide out the back side of it.

Oakley's sweet face. lol. "MOOOOOMM"

Ready for fireworks!

Waiting for more fireworks the next night with her buddy Tucker.

While all the other cars and people piled out, we stayed put and the kids played soccer, football and got to play with sparklers. Must more fun than sitting in traffic.