Kingston Elijah's Birthday :)

AHH our baby is ONE! so crazy. almost 3 hours ago (after exactly 12 minutes and 3 pushes!) that little stinker was born and our lives have been SO MUCH RICHER since :) we had so much fun with him today. we went out to ann arbor for breakfast, took him swimming, and stopped by at a park. he had a blast and by the end of the day we were all beat haha. Here is a little snippet of the birthday boy pictures from this very special day <3 my heart just swells every time i look at these! I LOVE THIS BOY!!

Swings!!

First time on them and he was laughing and smiling so much it was adorable.

Little bug walking

Of course our good camera's sd card was full when he started walking so here are some screenshots I took from the video of him walking on my phone (:

I was so happy, I was light headed when he started giggling and walking to me. Such an incredible feeling! I'm so proud of him. he is learning so much.

That last one cracks me up because he looks like he's dancing. I will definitely use the canon today to get a clearer shot and put that up.


He is so big <3

Sleep training

We're training Kingston to sleep through the night this week. He is so used to nursing at night I was anticipating it to be really hard. It actually hasn't been too bad! When he wakes up at 2 he likes to talk to himself and whine for an hour or two though lol chan gets a kick out of him touching his face and saying "dadadada" (: but he is gradually learning how to put himself back to sleep each night which is all chan and I really wanted. today will be night 6 of sleep training. The roughest will probably be what starts tomorrow (no cuddling when they wake up). Although I expected him to have a really hard time with it up until now, which he surprisingly hasn't so here's to hoping the rest goes as well!

Words

I want to remember the words Kingston first starts saying so here is a list of what I can remember him saying so far (: (some more often than others)

Dadda
Momma
Thank you
Bubba
Baby
Dong (a game he plays with daddy)
Bob
Ball
Dog
Buh bye
Uh oh
Yay

That's what I can remember right now.
He is definitely an early talker > walker kinda baby haha.

whoops...

ahhh i am not very good at keeping up with this! I just update my twitter a lot with all the pictures of Kingston... if you have a twitter, my username is @jesswelling.

Kingston's birthday present came in this weekend and we set up his AWESOME TEEPEE that we all play in and read books together under. we were too excited to wait so now we have to find another small toy to wrap so he has something to open friday morning!

aside from that, we just had a really fun weekend together as a family. went to the mall and hung around the house a lot which was nice :) i really adore watching chandler and kingston play together. it is so precious and makes my heart so happy.

t-11 days until bubba's birthday!!!