Happy First Birthday, Amedeo!

Yesterday was the big 1.0. Amedeo reports that it doesn't feel any different from before. Here's a summary of his big day.

Before his first nap, we saw two street sweepers cleaning up all that salt the county dumped on us. He LOVES big trucks. He was very excited to see these guys!

We had a make up Gymboree class. It was a large class, but I think he had fun. He especially enjoyed walking up the slide, then falling on his belly, to slide down backwards. At first, I thought he was especially clumsy, but then I decided after watching him grin that he was doing it on purpose.


When balls are involved, he is happy!

In the late afternoon, we had my parents over for presents and dinner. Here's the PlayHut that we got him and a few presents. Notice the cat inside the playhut.

Ok...more cats in the playhut. Seriously, they were having major fun in this thing. Amedeo has shown a tiny bit of interest. Maybe we'll take it down and show it to him when he's older.

Some bath shapes that stick to the tub walls. I was thinking that he'd stay IN the tub if he had cool stuff to play with...mostly he chews on these. Nice soft foam = great teether. Hmmm. Maybe we'll have to put these away too.


Grandma gave him some soap crayons. Pietro and I had fun drawing on the tub. Amedeo didn't care. Well, he enjoyed erasing the pictures we drew.

His spaceship. I got this because I thought Pietro would have fun playing with it. This one is pretty cool.


And, Grandma and Grandpa got him a stool. He does enjoy taking out the puzzle pieces...and he likes to climb on the stool to get to the sofa so he can harass the cats. Yeah!


More toys...mom went a little nuts.



Maybe we won't pack it up just yet.

The birthday cake. Ever since I can remember, I've had memorable birthday cakes. Mom always asked me what kind of cake I wanted...a cat cake, a whatever cake. They were always neat looking...I have some big shoes to fill. Amedeo smiled when he saw the cake. And since he's been to so many birthday parties...he knew exactly what this was.



Apple spice cake with vanilla buttercream frosting.


A pretty big slice for a small fry...I think he ate about half of it.

We had his doctor's appointment today. Here are the 1 year stats: 21lbs (20th), 31.25 inches (90th) and I can't remember the head circumference. The doc concluded, he is tall and skinny. Not a big surprise.

I asked about honey...she said that grocery store honey that is processed is fine, just don't give him raw stuff. We're going to give him that PolyViSol since we're still breastfeeding. I'm going to try some milk with him soon, but I suspect he'll take to it very slowly...hence the vitamins. We can also turn the carseat around now! Yay! I think we'll do it this weekend.

Thanks very much for all the birthday wishes! Amedeo is so lucky to have so many friends! (Me too!)