Tell me, how is it possible that Tyler is already a whole year old? Ridiculous, I tell you! He was just born like a few weeks ago, I swear.
Here is his birthday party invitation. The first time I read Where the Wild Things Are to Tyler, I just knew it had to be the theme for his first birthday party. He cracked up and wiggled excitedly through the whole book! For about a week afterward, all I had to do was begin saying a few words from the book, and I'd have him giggling. He loves when they RRRROAR their terrible ROARS! And gnash their terrible TEETH! And roll their terrible EYES! And show their terrible CLAWS!!!
I had all these great ideas about how I would decorate for this party and incorporate the theme, but I procrastinated too long and so there were no hanging vines or blown-up pictures of the wild things. There were no "King of all Wild Things" crowns. Oh well, at least the cake got done! It was inspired by an illustration from the book. I surrounded the cake with cupcakes, and each of those had a Wild Thing dancing on it. I just printed them on the computer and taped them onto toothpicks.
Here you can see all the dancing wild things. Tyler was completely clueless about what do do with that candle. I think Elise blew it out for him.
I just love the expression on his face. I've been pretty relaxed about letting him taste sweet things (compared to when I was a first time mom, anyway) but I still think a whole chocolate-frosted cupcake was a bit of a novelty for him.
It didn't take him long to figure out exactly what to do with the cupcake.
Tyler at one year...
- is easygoing. He just "rolls with the punches" when his sisters pick him up, hug and kiss him, bump into him, take his toys, and so on.
- doesn't demand entertainment and attention, but is easily entertained and loves attention. I think his default setting must be "giggle".
- is equal parts cuddly and busy. Sometimes he is content to just sit on my lap and snuggle, and other times there is no containing him. He just wants to be down and crawling, or cruising around furniture. He's been the most mobile of all 3 kids at this age.
- doesn't have any words yet (not even mama and dada). He sometimes does a bye-bye wave, and I caught him on camera once doing a bye bye wave while saying "ga ga", which seemed like "bye bye". But he hasn't done it since.
- has 5 teeth.
- loves to pick up small objects and put them in his mouth. We hope most of the time those small objects are actually food!
- loves the dishwasher, vacuum, toilets, remote controls, phones, cameras, and any kind of tool or gadget he can get his hands on.
- still likes to be swaddled, but with his arms free.
- is a thumbsucker, but only when he's tired. Boy, does he love that thumb!
- still looks like a baldy from afar, but has quite a bit of blonde hair.
- has kept his baby blue eyes.
- is a great addition to our family and we LOVE LOVE LOVE him!
Happy Birthday, sweet boy!
