Noah Turns ONE...and Delivers Some BIG News!

It's so hard to believe that one year ago today (The Olympic Openings!) our sweet little Noah joined our family on 8/8/08! Where has the time gone?!?! He's gone from a tiny little 7 lb 6 oz baby to a giggly, large 21 lb. (verging on) toddler. Such huge changes in such small amounts of time! Noah has been such a joy over the past year! He's so easy going and we are truly blessed to call him "ours!"

We had our family and friends over this morning to celebrate with us. It was such a fun time together and Noah enjoyed it too! He did really well to have made a trip to the minor med last night for his ears and eye and to have not had a nap this morning.

Noah's cake for the guests
Noah's smash cake!

Noah was pretty happy it was his birthday!!!

MMM! Lunch time! It was delish!

"I'm naked so...bring on the cake!"

Taking in the singing...

This stuff is good!

"I said, I'm done!!!"

It was time for a quick bath, but he was still enjoying the remnants of birthday goodness.

Mommy and the messy birthday boy.

Presents!! He mostly let the big kids open the gifts (which they LOVED) but don't you DARE try to take one of my new toys away!

So, after he got cleaned up from his birthday cake, he donned a new outfit...

Gasp! I'm going to be a big brother!!!

We've been keeping a little secret for quite a while. Our "little caboose" is on the way! Our family will be expanding to six sometime around February 12th. We are very excited and Ella Kate has already said that she hopes it is a girl...We'll see :) When the kids realized what all the commotion was, Ella Kate clapped and cheered. Eli hung his head and shook it like, "here we go again!" Silly boy...sometimes, Eli, I feel the same way! :) So, the countdown has begun and ready or not..."here we go again!"