12 Months and Everything Inbetween

I'm four months behind on updating. My excuse is work, a one year old, and pregnancy. I was pretty sick until about April, and Mclain plus work has kept me running till now. Hopefully we can enjoy our summer together because come September when this 2nd little guy gets here, I'm pretty sure things are going to get a bit hectic. Anyway, here is some of what we have been up to since the beginning of February. 

Valentine's Day

When you're pregnant and work all day, these are the kind of cookies my family gets. Clain liked them anyway!

Mclain's 1st birthday

We celebrated two days. A party for my family on his birthday, the 28th of February, and a party for James's family the next day.

Mclain officially started walking well on his own on his birthday!

March

In March I got my car smashed into! Luckily Clain and I were in the doctor's office when this happened.  I was pretty ticked off about it obviously and was without a car for about a week, but it's good as new now. 

I also enjoyed my week long Spring Break staying home with my little boy. We took Mclain to the new aquarium. 

April

In April we celebrated Easter by painting eggs (which Mclain did not love) and having an Easter egg hunt with a few of his cousins (which I don't have pictures of). We took Mclain bowling for the first time, and we found out Mclain is going to get a baby brother!

May

May was a really busy month for me at work with testing and end of school stuff, plus James was working a ton, so we didn't do anything exciting. Here's the only picture from May of our little cutie.

Now that Mclain is 15 months he runs all over, destroys everything, loves to wear his hat, loves to eat fruit, always wants to be outside with dad, gives kisses, and says mom, dad, uh oh, don't, thank you, bye, night-night, and on a good day pretty much mimics every word he hears. Oh, and he finally broke the 20 pound mark!

11 months

I'm a little behind, but Mclain turned 11 months old on January 28th. I can't believe this kid will be one in just about three weeks!

Mclain's favorite things at 11 months are:

•to talk on the "phone" (phone being anything that he chooses to pick up and put to his ear) and say hi, which really just comes out "ha"

•to say uh oh (really uh uh) whenever he drops something

•to throw his food all over instead of eating it (really to just throw anything)

•to play with his tractor or truck and he has started to try to make the vroom noises too

•to play with anything that he absolutely should not play with, and then when he is told "no" he just shakes his head back at you

•he loves "Old McDonald"

•he LOVES mandarin oranges and French fries

He still isn't walking yet, although I'm fairly certain he could if he would just try, but anytime he notices he is standing by himself he slowly sinks down to the floor. I guess he'll walk when he is good and ready.

 

       Love this adorable, crazy little boy!

10 Months

Mclain is 10 months old, and I really can't believe we will be celebrating his first birthday soon! (PS his birthday party is gonna be freakin' adorable!) 

At Mclain's last doctor's appointment he weighed in at ALMOST 18 pounds and 28 inches. I really start to think he is putting on a lot of weight, and then we go to the doctor: 12% for weight and 48% for height. I guess he'll just be tall and skinny like his dad. 

Well first, Christmas this year was great! We had it at my parents, and Santa James made him a wooden car and play bench. He loved them! I was surprised how into his toys he was considering most of the time at home he wants to play with things that should be in the trash can. 

The weekend before Christmas we opened a few presents at the Alveys. James's parents got Mclain and his cousin Weston these adorable rocking motorcycles. 

 

These two boys are going to be crazy when they're actually old enough to play together!

                 Christmas morning

Now that Mclain thinks he is a big kid, he likes to climb the stairs. James was trying to teach him how to SAFELY climb down. Let's just say it was a good thing James was behind him!

Clain loves tomato soup, and more importantly loves to rub it all over his face.

He does pretty well with his sippy cups now.

James trying out a Christmas present on Mclain. Mclain did NOT appreciate it.

And, we decided the other night since the kid has 4 (soon to be 5) teeth, good parents would probably start brushing them. He wasn't sure what to think of it.

          Dang, he is getting so big!

9 Months

Mclain turned 9 months old on Thanksgiving. I feel like he has learned so many new "tricks" and hit so many milestones in the past month. 

He now has four teeth, and he was such a BEAR when those top two came in at the same time. Wouldn't sleep, wouldn't drink his bottle, was such a little grouch; so glad that is over. 

He got sick for the first time. I guessed we did luck out to make it 9 months before he caught anything, but it was still so sad, and holy crap so much snot!

Now that he crawls around all over and walks around the furniture, I swear we need to get this kid a helmet or wrap him in bubble wrap, something. He always has bruises on his head!

This kid is crazy (like his dad)! He is into everything, especially loves to destroy all our christmas decorations.

We took him shooting with us for the first time. (Yeah, we're those kind of people.)

He loved pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving. I don't know why I didn't get a picture of that. He was not so sure about Santa Claus at our ward Christmas party, however. 

This kid loves to eat: puffies, French fries, non edible items, everything! I caught him eating a piece of bacon out of the bottom of the dishwasher one day!

He is getting so big; can't believe he'll be a year old in just a few months.