Nathan's 1st Birthday!

We celebrated Nathan's first birthday on Saturday (April 30th)!! Cannot believe my baby boy is ONE year old! We had such a great day celebrating as a family :) We decided to take the boys to the zoo for the day! It was crazy how much more into it Nathan was than he was even a month ago when I took the boys in Nashville. He was even noticing many of the animals that were further away (not just the inside ones this time).

Checking out some birds with daddy!


Loving the animals!


With my big one year old!!!

Falling asleep with daddy... so sweet :) And I absolutely LOVE how much Gary loves this, too cute!


He loved the farm animals best!

Family shot at the zoo!

We left the zoo around 4:00 and headed to BW3s for dinner! Nathan enjoyed munching on mac & cheese, french fries, and oranges! What a big boy! Then we headed home for cake and presents!!

Nathan loved all of the attention, and of course the singing! Alex enjoyed "helping" blow out the candles!

He wasn't so sure at first...

But then dug right in once he realized it was a tasty treat!!

He had plenty of presents to open from his big brother, mommy and daddy, his grandparents, and some friends!

Alex enjoyed it just as much as Nathan (if not more!) A couple of nights before Nathan turned one, Alex was talking all about how fun it was going to be and informed us, "and *I* get to open alllll of Nathan's presents!!!" haha. He had a bit of trouble with Nathan getting so much attention, but liked "helping" and getting to open a few gifts of his own (from family that spoils him, even if it's Nathan's birthday, not his! ha!)

Nathan loves his new musical instruments!!! Music is definitely his thing right now! He LOVES to dance and make his own music!

But his favorite gift of all is his new "racecar!!" He absolutely loves playing on this!

Nathan had his 1 year check up a couple of days later. He weighs in at 19.2lbs (15th percentile) and is 28.5 inches long (10th percentile). And his head is in the 50th percentile... apparently his little body is a a little out of proportion! haha. The doctor was a bit concerned that he hadn't gained any weight since his last check up... she wants us to give him lots of butter, yogurt, and ice cream this month! We're also starting him back up on an iron vitamin because his iron is slightly below where they like to see it. Otherwise he looked great!! He had a hard time with the shots this time around... VERY fussy for the next day and a half, woke up allll night long, and had a low fever. That was definitely not fun for anyone!