Tuesday, August 18, 2009

it's my birthday...

We didn't do too much for Tucker's birthday. We finally got him a nice Sunday outfit and we were so excited about it he got his own special photoshoot to model it. The only thing we forgot to buy were shoes! So he went to church wearing his nice outfit, but barefoot :) It was pretty cute. Since he isn't walking that much yet, we just haven't really bought him shoes. I think the time is coming soon though! He is really starting to take off on his own, it may only be 2 or 3 more weeks before he is running all over the place.
Tucker can hold his finger up when you ask him how old he is, actually he can't, but that is what it looks like he is doing. Wouldn't it be cute if he could do that?


This has got to be the cutest face you've ever seen, but I admit it, I'm probably a little biased.
I made Tucker his own little race car birthday cake, because I think he likes cars a lot. He makes a vrooom sound sometimes when he plays with his cars. I think it turned out pretty cute and don't worry, of course I washed the car before I put it on the cake. Sheldon decorated the bigger cake that was for his parents and us to eat.
Tucker looks so excited to eat his cake, but unfortunately the whole experience was kind of anticlimactic. Tucker took one handful of cake, tasted a little bit, and then he totally started to push it away and wasn't interested at all. Sigh. I guess that is what happens when you don't give your kid a lot of sweets, when you finally give him sweets he isn't interested.

He actually didn't even get that dirty, Sheldon was trying to get him to eat a little bit more and put the frosting on his nose and cheek.

I think he got tired of being sticky and messy so he got the saddest look on his face, but I guess it's his birthday and he can cry if he wants to ;)

Monday, August 17, 2009

One Crazy Year

Tucker turned one yesterday! What a crazy year it has been, our lives will never be the same, for the most part that is a good thing :) Every now and then I miss the freedom of not having kids, and having more money, and less poopy diapers, but then I think about how much fun Tucker is and I wouldn't give him back if I could. He is a pretty entertaining little kid and I have realized when I talk to other moms that he is very easy to take care of. Here is a look back at Tucker's first year, beginning with the day before he was born!




I love this picture, his face all scrunched up saying, "send me back!"

















Happy Birthday Tucker! (even though you don't know what that means yet)

More to come on Tucker's first experience with cake!

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Woof, Woof!

Tucker is learning so many new things these days! He is getting really good at imitating what you do. He can pucker his lips when you tell him to give kisses and he is starting to learn the sounds animals make. So far he can do 'woof woof' really good and is starting to be able to do 'meow.' He tries to make a lot of the other sounds but he hasn't quite got any of them down yet. Unfortunately he is also starting to learn the word 'no' but he hasn't started saying it all the time yet. Just every once in a while, so I am really trying to avoid saying the word no to him. This video has two good clips of him saying meow and woof.