Happy 1st Birthday Denver!

It's hard to believe that our baby is 1 today. A year ago our lives changed in ways we could have never imagined. We are so grateful to God for blessing us with such a wonderful, handsome "baby" boy! Denver has brought so much joy and purpose to our lives.

Here are Denver's 1 year pictures.

Denver continues to work on his walking skills and increasing his vocabulary. I'm trying to remember all of his words...this is what I can think of now that he says..."dada", "mama", "daddy", "hot", "nana" (banana), "uh-oh", "moo", he's said "meow" a couple times. He found a banana in one of his books and quickly pointed out "nana". You can't go anywhere close to where the bananas are without him asking for one...or ask him to say banana without the willingness to sit down and feed one to him. Also, after my last post I realized I never explained the banana...we give him a banana with the peeling on it, but cut of part of the peeling on the top so he can hold it and feed himself, but not make a complete mess either.

Denver has never been very shy, just doesn't like to leave Mom and Dad's arms very often when there are other people around. This past week he's started to get shy. He will dig his head into our shoulder when people start talking to him. He will then peek back and bat his long eyelashes and then put his head back into our shoulder.

He still just has his 3 1/2 teeth! I say half because that top right tooth just doesn't want to come all the way down. His poor gums get so swollen at times which has made me think the one next to it is trying to come down too, but I haven't seen the one yet.

Denver loves to eat. He's not a very picky eater (unlike his Mommy...thank goodness!), but there are some things you have to encourage him to eat or disguise a little with some cheese or something. Denver loves bananas, yogurt, meat of any kind, tomatoes, and I'm sure there are some other favorites that I'm forgetting at the time. Today we cut out 1 of the 2 bottles that he was getting a day. He now only gets a bottle before he goes to bed. Denver never complained this morning that it wasn't a bottle and still drank the whole thing! Let's just hope the last one can be removed from his routine as easily. I think we will give him about a week of just the 1 and then try to get that night time one out as well.

Play, play, play! Denver loves to play and read books. He will spend hours playing with his toys and looking through his books or bringing them to us to read to him. Denver loves his tractors, trucks, and cars and loves anything that has to do with the farm...especially cows! He also loves his Baby Einstein movies which have been great for long trips and when Mommy needs to take a shower and there's no one there to entertain him.

I think that's about it. If there's something you want to know about Denver that I didn't think to include leave me a comment and I'll answer you! :) There will be a post with all of Denver's birthday endeavors lately. I didn't want to make this post forever long, so I figured I'd do that one later tonight or another day depending on the amount of time I have to get it done. Thank you for all the thoughts and prayers you have sent us in the past year. We greatly appreciate every one of them and will need them in the months to come as we prepare for baby number 2 and getting Denver ready to be a big brother. God has truly blessed us with a wonderful little family....extended family and friends!