My First Birthday

My first birthday was on September 5, which was in the middle of a move-in week for all the students here at the University of Denver. Even though it was a crazy time here, Mommy and Daddy still threw me a party with ice cream cake. Daddy let me pick my party plates too. Of course, I had to go with the hottest chicks on the planet, the Disney princesses! Also, since we live so far away from family, we invited our DU family, the RAs that Mommy works with. It was a great day...especially the part where I got to eat cake and get it all over the place!

December 2006

December was great. Mommy and Daddy learned how to get full giggles and laughs out of me. I also got to meet Santa. I think he was jealous of how cute I looked in my Santa suit. We also got to take some family pics and see family again.

November 2006

November was full of smiles. I got to travel to different areas of TX and NM to visit family and friends. I also got baptized on Thanksgiving weekend (slept through the whole thing). Another highlight was watching my TX Aggies beat the longhorns! What a great month!

October 2006

As you'll see from the pics, October is when I started to show more of my personality. October is also when I got to ride in the Baby Bjorn for the first time, which I loved, because it was kinda like being inside Mommy's tummy, but I could see what was going on in the rest of the world. I also got to experience Halloween for the first time in October. Mommy and Daddy dressed me up like a little chili pepper, because it reminded them of their home state, New Mexico. They also took me to a carnival, but I was sleeping the whole time. At least I looked cute, right?

The First Year...a review

I can't believe I just had my first birthday (of living outside the womb, of course). Since I've only been a blogger for the last few months, I thought I'd make a special series of blog posts to review this past year. This first post of the series features my first picture, when I was only 6 weeks 4 days old. This was when I was still in the womb. Then, you'll see the pic of me and my Mommy, and my hospital pic.

Some memories from that first month (September 2006) are being up all night with poor Mommy, who was helping me adjust to life outside the womb even though she was so tired and recovering from a C-section. I also hear the stories about how Mommy's water broke the morning BEFORE I was supposed to be born, and how Daddy used "strategic speeding" to get us to the hospital, which was 3 hours away. Luckily, we made it in time, and I was born at 8:06 a.m. on September 5, 2006.