May has been busy, busy, busy - and FUN for our family. We had Evan's first birthday party on the 8th - in Atlanta so we traveled to the ATL on the 7th, had the party on the 8th, enjoyed some semblance of Supper Club that night, celebrated Mother's Day with a breakfast date at the Waffle House with my boys while Chris enjoyed church with his mother and then we celebrated the occasion with Chris' family on the 9th and then headed back home.
The 12th - Evan's ACTUAL birthday.....my lil' angel is a whole year old..........WHAT??...Chris took the day off so we could have a whole day about Evan for his birthday....so fun!!! We took him out to breakfast at the Ranch House after we dropped Brady off at school, then we took him to the mall to enjoy his first carousel ride...the carousel conductor played a special b-day song for him so we got an extra long ride. He really seemed to enjoy this. Then we brought the little fellow home and just gave him some undivided attention from BOTH parents and just played with him and had lunch with him before picking Brady up from school. After his nap, we took him out to eat to the same Mexican restaurant we went to the night he was conceived....I know he is going to read this one day and think - thanks, mom, that is way too much information!!!....and they sang to him and gave him some sort of special cinnamon/sugar tortilla dessert. When we got home he had a cupcake waiting for he and Brady that I made and we put a candle in it and sang to him. We had a GREAT day celebrating the littlest Stidham!
Brady started his first ever one-on-one swim lessons. We signed up for these lessons with Mr. Chaz at the YMCA. I have been VERY proud of how much progress he has made with him. Evan and I did his first Mommy & Me swim class...which was GREAT. It was nice having an activity for just he and I and having that one-on-one time with him. Such special time for Evan & I.
We have had a few fun end-of-year things going on at Brady's school...one of which was celebrating his "pretend" birthday. Since his birthday is when school is out for Summer, his teacher gives us the opportunity to do a "pretend" celebration. She makes a sweet little crown for the birthday boy or girl to wear for the day and the parents can bring something "special" for that day's snack time if they want to. I brought some yummy chocolate chip cookies and juice boxes in for the class for snack time and then I read a fun book to the class. It was nice to be a part of my big boy's school day!
I had lots of fun preparing personalized thematic party favors for both the boys' parties and getting family together to pool our money for one big gift that they will enjoy for years to come. I finished up Evan's one year journal and now am going to commit to doing my best to keep a great journal of his doings, growing, and updates via my blog. On the 13th, I took Evan to his one year well check-up and he received a good bill of health. He is quite a big boy - 90th percentile in height at 30.5 inches, 30th percentile for weight at 21 lbs. 2 oz. and 95th percentile for his head circumference at 18 3/4 inches!! Such a big guy!
On the 13th we had Brittney photograph the boys for their 1 year and 4 year portraits. She, of course, did a GREAT job!
Evan added another word to his vocabulary "uh-oh"...so cute the way he says it with inflection. He nows says "Momma", "DaDa", his version of Brady "Bray-ee", "bye bye", "night night", and now "uh-oh". I love it!! We had a blast at Brady's birthday party. We had a fun, cooking birthday party for Brady on the 22nd at Super Suppers. What a wonderful time! Each little chef decorated their own chef's hat, wore aprons and made little personal pizzas, decorated yummy strawberry cupcakes (Brady chose strawberry everything), and then birthday boy, Chef Brady, made a yummy, homemade strawberry ice cream. They had a fantastic time and proved to be quite talented in their cooking skills. MiMi & PopPop and Poppy traveled from Georgia to enjoy the festivities.
It was very exciting to see Brady's face when we arrived home from his party with the surprise gift in the backyard for he and Evan. We - along with MiMi & PopPop, Nonnie, Uncle Rich, & Poppy - bought Brady and Evan a great wooden playset for the backyard and had it delivered and assembled while we were at Brady's party. He was VERY surprised...it was awesome!!I have to be honest now that May is coming to a close in the next week......WOW!!! While we have had a lot of FUN, it is nice to just be laying on my couch at the moment with my feet up and catching up on my journaling while my babies rest. It has been hectic and busy and I am ready for some down time (funny with a one year old and almost four year old to write that) and regular routine stuff. I am excited about summer vacation for Brady...his last day of preschool is Tuesday....and all the fun things that I am looking forward to doing with he and Evan this summer.
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