1 year old!

Dawson is officially no longer a baby :(  I am now the mommy of a ONE year old!  Crazy!!  I have been blessed to spend a whole year with this little man and pray for many more years to come :)

As always, here are some pictures from Dawson's monthly photo shoot!

"I am sooo excited that it is my birthday today!"

Now comes a whole series of Dawson hitting his head!  This has become a new thing that he LOVES to do...don't ask me why!

I have a crazy child!

"Touchdown"

Just saying a little prayer :)

Trying to escape!

Here are some up the things Dawson was up to this last month:

- Learning how to blow kisses...soooo adorable!

- He is always jabbering

- We had to call poison control for the first time..little man ate fireplace ashes.  Yuck!

- He is taking more and more steps on his own, but still is a little too timid to take off walking :) 

- Dawson has said a few more words like "hot", "ball", and "hi"

- Starting to figure out how to feed himself with a spoon!  He mostly likes to play with it, but sometimes surprises me with how well he can feed himself!

- Loves to throw things like balls and especially food (we are working on this one!)

- Has discovered his nose holes and likes to stick his finger it them!

- Enjoys making silly noises with his mouth by moving his finger up and down

- He has really started imitating a lot!

- LOVES to wave at people

- Has started climbing on things

- Working on getting 4 of his top teeth

- Visited the ER for the first time. I was hoping to make it at least past his first birthday before having to go there...I pray we won't have too many more ER visits in the future!

We had Dawson's one year appointment today!  He is 30 inches tall (58th percentile) and 20.5 lbs. (14th percentile), so he is about average height and kind of skinny I guess :)  Dawson did well at his appointment, but the poor little guy screams whenever the doctor touches him :(  Plus he got a lot of shots today and wasn't too happy about that.  

Here are some picture showing off Dawson's cuteness from this past month!

Eating an apple...he was soo happy to do it by himself! 

The apple was actually a really good teether!  He had four top ones coming in at this time :(

Dinner at Little Grill with the neighbors :)

We got to go with Brandon on a company Christmas trip to the Great Wolf Lodge in KC!  We had a blast :)  Here are some pictures from story time!

I love my family!

Great Wolf Lodge had a pretty cool arcade.  Here is Dawson testing out the race car...

...and the gun...

...and the guitar!

Just hanging out with a bear.

Just chilling with mommy!

"Ahhh!  Not the woods!"  

We had a really great time at Great Wolf Lodge.  Dawson LOVED every thing about it, but especially loved all the water activities!  However, since it was super wet inside the water park area, we didn't get any pictures of that part of the trip :(

Mr. Serious :)

I could look at this little face all day long!

Opening a gift on his actual birthday morning :)

"Why does this food have no taste?"

Dawson got to be the ring bearer for his grandpa's wedding

Our little guy is really growing up...I can't believe it!  I am excited to continue watching him learn and grow!  Dawson has brought so much joy into our lives over this past year!  I love being this little guys mommy :)