Another busy weekend

Look at my big boy! Shane now has 8 teeth in that cute little grin he gives. He is growing up so fast! We are working on weaning him off bottles now and it's going pretty good so far. He still wakes up twice a night wanting bottles, so this weekend we gave him NO BOTTLES at night and he is already down to waking up just once. A big improvement! I can't wait to get a whole night of uninterrupted sleep!!

He is also loving his new Baby Signing Time DVD. He still signs: eat, drink, more...but now he also does milk and cat (while he chases the neighbors cats outside!). He has been trying to talk A LOT lately too. We have 30 or so turkeys running around near our house and he has been trying to repeat "gobble, gobble, gobble" with a big smile on his face. It is soo cute!

We went to Dakota's 1st birthday last weekend at Helen Putnum Park. It was a beautiful day and we were so happy to celebrate with everyone. HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY, DAKOTA!!

The Long's

Pretty little birthday girl!

Playing at the park

Peak-A-Boo!

He loves to be up high

Our little family!

Then we had a play date with Shannon and Samuel on Sunday. We went to Rincon Valley Park and then Howarth Park and went on the train and took Shane on the carousel for the first time. We can all tell by the smile on Shane's face that he loooves the train, but I was definitely more excited about the carousel ride than he was!

Pumpkin Patch

Dakota and Shane

2007

2008

Look how much our babies have grown! It's hard to believe a whole year has gone by already. It's been so much fun sharing these kinds of moments with Dominique and Dakota over the past year. We are so lucky to have such happy and healthy babies! Dakota's 1st birthday is this weekend and we can't wait. We have baby Nora's 1st birthday next weekend and it is a costume party! Stay tuned for cute babies in costume and pictures of our Jack-o-lanterns!

Ready to find our pumpkins!

It took forever to get Shane to sit still for this picture!

He really liked this green pumpkin

He finally decided on one that wasn't green

Aren't they adorable?!?

Shane is feeding Dakota pretzels....too cute!!

Yummy!

Mama's boy : )

First Birthday Pictures

The party was a success! It rained while we were setting up and I did panic for a half hour or so, but the weather cleared and we had a beautiful day and a great turnout.

Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate Shane's first birthday.

Thank you for all the birthday wishes from those who couldn't make it.

Special thanks to everyone who helped me plan and set up this party

(Jackie, April, Chris, Tony, Del and Grandma)

because I couldn't have done it without you!! Shane is one lucky little guy to have such great friends and families.

Here is a slide show of the day's events.

Shane's First Haircut

Grandma and I took Shane for his first haircut yesterday. Most of you know how hard it is to keep Shane still for more than 30 seconds (not to mention the fun high pitched yelling and squealing thing he does lately) so I was a little worried about how he would react. HE DID SO GOOD! They had lots of toys to keep him occupied and he didn't try to move out of the chair even once! I was so proud of him. We got a little certificate and kept a lock of his hair and they are going to post his picture on their wall. My little celebrity : )

Here is how it went:

I'm ready for my haircut!

Hmmm...who is this lady?

He did so good, just let her do her thing.

ALL DONE!

My big boy with his big boy haircut!

So cute!

Now we are ready for his birthday party and 1 year photos!! I can't believe he is a year old already! Looking forward to seeing everyone on Saturday. I'm really upset with this weather we are having, but we will be out there rain or shine so we hope you will still come celebrate with us!