Birthday pics

There were a ton, so I'll just put them here as a slideshow. We cooked what we think are Carter's favorite foods for dinner: steak, green beans, and asparagus. We topped that off with the traditional Destruction of The Birthday Cupcake, which Carter enjoyed muchly.



He pretty much went straight from high chair to bathtub, as you might imagine! Surprisingly, he didn't seem to be affected by all that sugar.

I have a couple of cute videos too. They both show how active and mobile he is these days.



You'll notice that in both of them, he's really interested in the camera!



In other news, he has suddenly started swallowing more food when he eats. Up until a few weeks ago, he would mainly stuff his cheeks full and hold onto his food for as long as he could before we made him spit it out. Now we're starting to notice that his food is disappearing. It's reappearing in his diaper, often still in its original form, LOL. He's been eating a lot of grapes lately, and the skins pass right through. :-P

I had bought a diaper sprayer a while back, and just hooked it up to the toilet the other night. It's basically a little handheld sprayer that hooks up to the water line between the wall and the toilet tank, and it is AMAZING at spraying the poop off of diapers! Anyone who has ever dunked poopy diapers into a toilet would turn green with envy! The water pressure is enough to totally spray the diapers clean. That means I don't have to worry about letting poopy diapers sit in the pail and stain any more, yay! Now that Carter's poop is a bit more "mature", it's not as water-soluble as when he was completely breastfed.

And speaking of, today marks 12 months of breastfeeding for us. I couldn't manage to get the nurses to bring me a pump until more than 24 hours after Carter was born, but that didn't set us back too much. We worked very hard to get here, and I'm incredibly proud of the fact that Carter is mostly made of me. :-)



Here's to another 12 months!