Update....

Can it seriously be April already?! I have not posted a blog since January and honestly it is due to me forgetting all about my blogspot! Hard to believe, guess I have so much going on that it took the back burner for a bit.
Well, a lot has happened since Blake's first birthday. Him walking for starters. A week long visit from Noni during spring break. A trip to Knoxville(mini vacation as the girls called it). And now SNOW in April! We are also redoing our half bath, that is almost finished! Thank you Paula for all your help!
Katie is going to go on her FIRST feild trip and ride a school bus for the first time on Wednesday April 8th. They are going to the Tivoli, Ally and I will meet them over there and watch the show with them! They are going to the zoo later in April. She will be starting Kindergarten at St Jude in the fall and is very excited to be attending the same school her mommy went to.
Ally is loving her new teacher at PDO....considering it is her MomMom.....it is not surprise!
Pictures to come as I decided which ones out of the hundreds to post!

ONE year?!

Blake turned ONE year old on January 8th. ONE year! Where did the time go?

As I sit here and try to think of something witty or elegnat to write, all I can think of is

the bitter sweetness of my little baby turning into a toddler, a little boy. The things he does now, fights off his sisters, loves hammers and anything with wheels, can devour any food you put in front of him faster then you can give it to him, is trying his darndest to walk, climbs...climbs like his sisters never even attempted, crawls faster then I can walk at times, head butts with his daddy, gives the sweetest little kisses, hates getting his diaper changed and can make a mess in less then a minute.

The more the time flies by, the more babytraits are replaced by boy traits. I am watching a little boy form right before my eyes. I never imagined how different my little boy could be from my little girls. After we had Ally, I was shocked how two sisters from the same parents could be so very different. And surprisingly I have been shocked again by the vast difference my little boy has shown me thus far.

Blake found a strong love for Cake, pizza, strawberry flavored milk, hamburgers, french toast and anything else that his sisters eat! We have been feeding him anything and everything we eat the last couple weeks and he is loving it. I never would have dreamed of feeding some of those things to the girls this soon. But my little man spits out any baby or baby grauate food you try to give him, taking 'real' table food any day.

We threw him a huge birthday bash...two of them actually. One a couple days before his birthday for family and another a few ays after for all our friends and extended family. He had a blast playing with balloons, opening presents, eating cake and getting more attention then he knew how to handle. Thank you all who were part of those celebrations, it means a lot to us!