Happy 1st Birthday!

Today is Matt's first birthday! Happy Birthday, Matt!

Matt seems quite unimpressed with this fact, but Tim sure is excited. He keeps saying he's so excited that Matt is 1 because that means he's getting bigger and can play with him. Since we were away from home for his birthday we ended up having just a small party with the immediate family. I don't know if he was tired or overwhelmed by our tremendous singing voices, but he didn't dive into his cake the way we thought he would. However, he was perfectly happy to have me feed it to him so maybe he just thought since it was his day he wouldn't bother to feed himself.


Here are some recent pictures of Matt. He really seems to have gotten a lot bigger in November. I'll be curious to see how much he's grown at his next Dr. appointment. He's cruising the furniture really well now. He's been doing it so long we thought for sure he'd be walking by his first birthday, but he still will only let go with one hand. In November he also finally started eating table food. That was almost an overnight change. One day he's screaming like we're killing him because he found a whole pea in a bottle of Beechnut baby food and the next day he's feeding himself anything you put in front of him - except Cheerios. Now, what kid doesn't eat Cheerios? He'll eat them if he's really hungry and/or there's nothing else in site, but as soon as he spots other food, no more Cheerios. He'll gladly eat cauliflower and broccoli long before Cheerios. With age has also come an even greater awareness of his voice and he's gotten louder than ever (which we didn't think was possible). Some of this, of course, is encouraged by Tim. They spend a lot of time making faces at each other and yelling.

It's hard to believe that in a few days he will have been with us 3 months. He's been such a joy so far, we can hardly wait for our first Christmas together!