ELIJAH IS 1 YEAR OLD!!

I cannot believe how fast he is growing. It seems like the past month he has quadrupled his skillz!

STATS:
Weight: 24 lbs. (right between the 50th-75th percentile)
Height 30.5 inches (same as above)

He DOES NOT like the doctor's office. This was even before he got his shots.

After the doctor's office. He feels much better with his binky and bunny.

His biggest accomplishment since 9 months is crawling and climbing/ pulling up on things. He started army crawling around 10 months and then all of a sudden over the course of a couple weeks started doing everything! We've baby proofed just about everything. Here are some crawling videos:

This is his army crawl at 10 months

 

And here he is a pro at getting around 

 

Here are a few of Elijah facts:

-Loves to eat! Seriously he will just keep eating and eating and eating. I've had to cut him off so he doesn't make himself sick. He will eat just about anything when he's hungry!
-Loves to open and close doors and cupboards
-Says "mama" "dada" and signs "more" and "please" but he thinks the sign for more and please is the same sign- oh well!
-He has 7 teeth, almost 8! 4 on bottom and 3 on top (#4 is about to pop in any day now)
- Loves going to the pool, He loves going down the waterslide with us and going under the mushroom
-Is a mommas boy, which I don't mind, I love my little boy!
-Has had 4 colds and an episode of Hand, Foot Mouth Disease.
-Can crawl up the stairs by himself, but unless I'm behind him he turns around to sit and look around and nose dives to the bottom. OUCH! We're working on teaching him to go backwards.
-He is fascinated with the washer and dryer. He sits and stares at them going round and round.
-LOVES books. He flips through his big stack of books and jibber jabbers. So cute.
-He is perfecting the pathetic, tearless, fake cry. Silly boy!
-Is now drinking pretty much all whole milk from a sippy cup. With the exception of his morning bottle, I'm trying to finish up a can of formula. I cheated and started giving it to him everyday for lunch for a week so we could get used to the taste and temperature.
-Doesn't like the blender or the vacuum. I've been known to put him in his highchair while I vacuum and he screams the whole time.
-Take 2 naps a day, and sleeps 7-7.
-He gets to sit forward now! They now say wait til they're two- what is that all about!?

For his birthday we were going to have some people over for cake and ice cream, but Elijah got sick and then I got sick so we just had a little family party. See photos/videos below!

 Birthday Morning!

The cake

All  of the following videos are of him on his birthday present. There are a gazillion of them but I think they are all hilarious, if you can't tell by my laugh in the background :)

   

Look I can use it as a bike too!!

 

Diving into the cake

I cut him off a slice and he was in heaven!

My cake is all gone and I'm tired mom!

It's my party and I'll cry if I want to!

And here are some random funny pics:

I love corn!

Two peas in a pod

I call these my Asian Elijah. (And I realize it is very stereotypical just like Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's ) I get a kick out of it every time!