Jereme and Kim

We invited family over to our (old) house for a taco bar, tasty margs, the obligatory cake smashing, and a little gift opening! Jase especially loved having all his girl cousins there to party with, but wasn’t totally sure what to think about indulging in his mini birthday cake. Now that I am posting these basically a year later, it is crazy to see how much my little 1-year-old baby has changed! It was super red and that has definitely changed over the past few months (it’s a WAY lighter dirty blonde, sorta gold color now! ), as has his little baby face, that looks so much more like a toddler/big boy now.

I’ve literally had “blog Jason’s monthly photos” written on my to-do list every month to no avail. As hard as it sometimes is to enjoy slathering sunscreen all over an antsy-pantsy toddler and dragging that one year old to the beach (while remaining on full-time lifeguard duty so no one drowns) and going out to early bird style dinner every night so no one gets cranky, it.was.SO.worth.it. Jason absolutely adores his school and I can’t say enough positive about how much the ‘busy toddler/preschool/working parents’ type of lifestyle just works for us. There was also Easter, and Mother’s and Father’s Day, and 4th of July, and lots of visits with family and friends all mixed in between these last few months.

A few ornaments got knocked off the tree, but overall I’d say it was actually a HUGE success (minus the fact that our real tree totally died well before the 25th, but we won’t talk about that ;)))! Even though Jase hadn’t really shown any of the stranger danger anxiety that is typical around this age, I guess a big creepy bearded guy in a bright red furry suit will do you in. We finally had to buy proper baby proofing gadgets for our kitchen cabinets since Jason was getting into everything like a little pro. And our biggest accomplishment at 9 months (one I am very proud of)…he recently decided he didn’t totally mind eating a few solid foods (peas & carrots) after weeks of being appalled by literally anything with texture.

Sooooooooo… today Jase is officially 8 months, and I am just getting my 7-month post up. Then, we had our first official “hey-guys-look-at-me-I’m-just-going-to-stand-up-right-here-unassisted-incident” the first week of 7 months. Side note, after being on antibiotics twice a day for 10 days, I think it’s safe to say our little guy absolutely despises taking meds. He basically thinks we are torturing him any time I whip out the plastic syringe.