Week 53 and Week 166

William is 53 Weeks old.  He had a great first week being one!  We did some more celebrating in the early part of the week and William continued to get more confident with his walking as the week went on.  On Sunday especially he really started letting go on his own and walking to where he wanted to go without someone on the other end cheering him on!  Watch out world...here comes William!

Emily is 166 Weeks old.  She had an awesome week at dance class and seems to be getting out of her Super Mommy Attachment Funk.  Of course she still loves her Mama, but is doing much better at going to other people again.  We had fun at Ag Field Day at Rutgers on Saturday and had a nice quiet day of yard work on Sunday.  Emily is a great helper!  Well, when she finally gets her princess garden gloves on!!

Here are some pics of our fun this week...

More cake at birthday playdate!

Megan opening gifts.  Yes we finally celebrated the twins birthday too!

Princess Katie

Princess Megan

Fun with containers!

Dancing princess

TRUCKS!

Yup...he moved the table so he could get into the tv stand!

53 Weeks Old

Look who found the toilet paper...

Butterfly face paint!

Happy girl with her corn on the cob!  This girl knows what she wants and knows how to get it!!  Thanks Gia and Pepa!!!

Emily and William both love the new wheels!!

Hoppity Hop!

Pony Ride!!

Happy First Birthday William Edward!

Happy Birthday to our precious little man!  We had a great day celebrating at his construction birthday party.  Here are some pics of William's special day.  I have a ton more, but only so many can make it to the blog!!

Happy Birthday William!

Baby's first Tonka Truck!

Birthday Pancakes

Party Time!

Birthday Boy Walking!

William's Awesome cake made by Jen!

Building Time

Emily and Brandon building with boxes

Baby in a box!

Mommy and the birthday boy

The work crew with their creation

Pinata Time

Dessert!!

Cake time!

Mmmm...that was good!  Time for the plate!

Buddies!

Nana and the birthday boy!

Dump Truck rides

Happy Boy!

Playing with birthday gifts!!

Week 52 and Week 165!

William is 52 Weeks old.  That's right we now have a 1 year old!!!  Happy Birthday to our sweet baby boy.  It has been an incredible year watching you grow.  This was also a big week of milestones for Will.  I can officially say he crawls on all fours.  He made it right before his first birthday!  He has been doing it a little bit, but on Wednesday he went across the living room and has done it several more times since.  He is also getting pretty good at walking.  He was walking up and down the room at his party.  Of course, he didn't do it much once Mommy and Daddy were looking, but he was walking around all day!!  What a big boy!  Full of milestones on his birthday!  We had a busy week running around and preparing for his party, then had a ONEderful celebration with family and friends today. 

Emily is 165 weeks old and was super excited about William's birthday.  She was pretending it was her doll's birthday all week.  Wrapping presents, making cupcakes, and just having fun!  We went shopping and she picked out a piggy bank to give William for his birthday and was so excited to wrap it and give it to him.  She even hid it in her closet until his birthday!  Of course, he wasn't opening it right and she had to help him out!!  She was definitely much more into the gift opening than William was, she liked the gifts too!  Lots of cars and trucks and fun boy stuff!! 

Here are some pics of our fun this week...

Birthday Photo Shoot

Birthday Boy

Puzzle time!

Cutie Girl

Tool Time

Crawling to Mama

Pretty Girl

This crazy weather...what to wear???

We went to plant flowers for Earth Day, William wanted in on the action too!

Please, can we go outside now???

William loves being outside and anytime the sliding door is open he is right there waiting to go out!

Flower Girl

52 Weeks Old!!!

Checking out his new play house.

Goodnight little buddy!  Tomorrow you'll be one!

Birthday pics will be in the next post!!!!

Week 51 and Week 164

William is 51 weeks old.  He has been talking and parroting more and more.  He points at things all of the time and says "dat".  He is continuing to say "uh oh" and is signing "more" a lot more often.  He is getting a little more brave about letting go and standing on his own.  He's taken a few steps here and there, but still seems to really like the security of holding on.  He was also crawling today more than the one or 2 "steps" he usually does before falling down to his army crawl.  I can't believe this is the last post I am going to have before he is 1!!!  This really has been the fastest year ever, but I have loved every minute watching my little boy grow.

Emily is 164 weeks old.  She's not changing as much as William these days, but she is still tons of fun!  She got to do one more egg hunt with PePa this weekend and had a blast.  It's amazing how much better she is at finding than she was last year.  Yes, there is still room for improvement, but that's what next year is for, right?!! 

We had a pretty busy low key week if that is possible.  I'm not really sure what we did, but we were pretty busy!!

Here are some pics of our fun...

Building or banging or something fun!

Princess Emily

William's first birthday gift.  I don't think Emily even gave him a chance to be interested.  She was ready to help!

51 Weeks old

William made the switch to the big boy car seat!

Finding eggs at PePa's house.

Standing with his bunny!

More eggs!

William's first time coloring with PePa.

Happy Birthday Grandma

 Emily LOVES Aunt Paula's Tupperware cabinet!

She insisted William try it out also.  She knew her brother would love it!

William and PePa

We tried for a good pic, but at least they are all happy!

Standing!  And playing in the sandbox for the first time.  Amazingly he didn't eat any of it!

Father and daughter raking together.

Emily's first Cadbury Cream Egg.  She loved it!