Happy Birthday Alex

It's hard to believe that he is 1 year old today.  How far he has come.  From just 4 lbs 8 oz when he was born to over 20 lbs now.  And from a feeding tube because he hadn't developed his suck/swallow instinct yet, to now preferring to feed himself than even eat from a spoon.  He's growing so fast!

We had a busy weekend.  On Friday we went to the toy store to pick out his birthday gift.  We decided we might as well take advantage of the fact that he little yet and won't know that we were buying his birthday gift.  The toy store was lots of fun.  I think even more fun for Dad than it was for Alex. 

On Saturday we went to have some pictures taken.  It wasn't the best photo session we've ever had.  It was nap time, there were a lot of appointments booked for the same time, and I think our photographer was a bit new.  We were surprised that she got any smiles captured.  We got a few good ones. 

Grandma and Grandpa Meiners and Grandma and Grandpa Bruzek were her on Saturday to help us celebrate.  I made a Very Hungry Caterpillar from cupcakes.  He at a big dinner and then managed to eat all of his cupcake - well almost all of it.  A bunch of it ended up on his pants, on his face, and in the high chair.  Today he got to have another one which is when the picture was taken.

I can't seem to upload any of the other pictures to the blog.  Blogger and Google are having some sort of malfunction.  Mike checked it out and sounds like its some sort of erroneous message.  I'll try again in a few days or a week and see if I can get more pictures loaded.