Woznation

Ahhh, my little boy is one.  I can hardly believe it.  Hes such a big guy that everyone always thinks hes older than he is, but he’s still very much a baby to me.  He still not interested in walking that much. He pushes his walking cart around, but wont take a go at it on his own.  He says a few select sounds at certain objects.  For example, he says ‘dada’ at every dog we pass, but he also says ‘dada’  when phil gets home from work, and at the refrigerator.  We still dont know what his first word is, since he kind of calls everything the same thing and its not consistent yet.  I’m enjoying this time before true toddler-hood starts. And we celebrated his 1st first a number of ways.  For his actual birthday, it was just Phil, Wil and I in Baltimore.  He spent the day at the children’s museum, skyping with family, opening presents and eating his first cupcake!

Wil was a bit hesitant with the cupcake.  He would actually take a bite of it, but he liked picking off the icing and eating that.  We dont have a picture of when the thing was torn apart, but I think we have a video.

Of course, the box the toys came in was more fun than the toys themselves.

We also had a family celebration in Bloomington the week after:

Since the cupcake wasnt a hit, I decided for something a little more dense (he doesnt seem to like fluffy things, like bread or cake).  So my mom and I made these cute sugar cookies and made a sprinkles ‘1’ with a cookie-cutter on top.  I was pretty proud of them.

Even though it was hot, we set up camp in a shelter at Highland park where we opened presents, played with balloons, sang happy birthday, and ate cookies. I dont seem to have a copy of the group shot, but all Wileks grandparents, and Auntie Em were there to celebrate!  Thank you everyone one who came out and made Wil’s first birthday so special!