What a difference a year makes…
Happy Birthday, Son. You made us a happy little family.
Little Family (1y)
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A year of Kieran (1y)
(To the tune of the Oobi Theme Song)
Kieran’s like me
Kieran’s like you
Kieran’s got a lot of big things that he’s gonna do
Kishou’s his dog
She’s big, he’s small
Daddy is his very best friend
Mama loves them all
Oh, Kieran
Kieran, Kieran, Kieran, Kieran, Kieran
He’s got a lot to see
He’s got a lot to do
And he loves Mama and Daddy too!
It’s been an incredible first year, and Kieran has his own song to prove it.
Happy Birthday, sweet little boy. Mama and Daddy love you so much.
1st Father’s Day (11m3w)
Happy Father’s Day, Paul.
You are the most incredible Daddy to Kieran.
I thought I knew what love was. We’ve had a pretty amazing 19 years together. And I thought I knew what love was: the amazing, wonderful way I feel about you.
But then we became parents. And I’ve seen you laugh and cry more in this last year than I have in our whole relationship. (I think you could probably say the same about me though, which is really saying something…) I’ve watched you change thousands of diapers (3286 total and counting…) and watched you melt at your son’s gurgles, cries, and laughs. He is undoubtedly your best buddy. And you are his Hero. You are his Daddy.
I thought I knew what love was, but this year I’ve learned all over again why I love you, and how much I can love someone. You are an incredible Father. Kieran is SUCH a lucky little boy. And I am so blessed to have you both.
You’ve been my friend, my love, my help mate, my soul mate… but now you are the Father of my child as well. I have fallen in love with you all over again, as we’ve fallen in love with our son. He is the best gift we’ve ever given each other.
Happy Father’s Day, Honey. I love you so very very much.
Not a real update, just Photos (11m3w)
I am so far behind on posting, I feel like I’ll never catch up. (Between the plague that was on this house for 5+ weeks, and life in general…. )
Kieran is almost walking, he’s almost talking, he’s almost eating chunky stuff. He laughs and babbles all the time. He terrorizes the dog and cats as often as he can. He stacks the rings on the ring stacker and puts the shapes in the right holes on his shape sorter. He loves to play with kitchen utensils, so I got him his own whisks and measuring cups and colanders at the $.99 store. He crawls and cruises at light speed, and follows us around the house.
He is incredible. And SO VERY BUSY. I know we’re going to spend the next 2 years chasing him.
Here’s a typical weekend day these days with our very busy baby:
Photo Blast (10m)
I was gonna title this post “Photo Bomb” but I realized that has a whole new meaning these days. :)
So even though I totally fell down last month in updating the blog, we still have been taking pics and video of Kieran – when he’s feeling up to it. We attended Grampy Tom’s company picnic, went swimming again, and Kieran has been enjoying new-found freedom as he crawls all over the house!
Kieran’s 9th month was a busy one filled with growth and milestones. He crawled, pulled up, and cruised for the first time all in this last month. He’s eating way more, of an increasing variety of foods (as long as they’re not green.) I’ve been increasing the texture of his foods steadily – eventually he’ll get into chunks and pieces. For now he’s content with the occasional melon to chew on, but he still spits out any chunks he manages to bite off. He’ll get there in his own time.
Oh, and his favorite color is Orange. Give him a box of toys, and he’ll pull out the orange ones first. His favorite thing in the house these days is the orange circle from his shape sorter set. He carries that around with him. It’s so great to watch him playing with toys (or our ipads) or enjoying time in the pool. As much as we want him to stay our little baby, it’s so incredible to watch him becoming a little boy.
Even as I start making plans for Kieran’s first birthday party (June 25th) I refuse to accept that this first year of our son is coming to an end. What an amazing kid we have. Paul and I ask each other every day how we got so blessed and lucky to have this little guy in our lives.
There’s a whole bunch of new pictures in several galleries: