Mace - A Year Old

I can't believe my baby is one.  Although it feels like forever ago that we welcomed Mace into our family, it doesn't seem possible that he's one already.  He's no longer a baby!!  He is definitely starting to show his personality and is loving being involved and playing with his older brothers.  Right now he has a handful of words.  It's the cutest thing to hear him talk.  He says hi, night night, uh-oh, ma-ma, da-da and he waves bye-bye.

We are currently working on switching him from formula to milk. With the other two it was no problem.  We handed them a sippy cup with milk in it and they chugged it.  Mace hates milk.  If we can even get him to take a drink of the cup he starts gagging and spits it out.  Then he becomes suspicious of all cups we give him and won't even try the water for fear that we are trying to trick him and give him more milk.  He likes cheese and yogurt though so the doctor says it not a big deal to get his calcium that way.

Mace hasn't yet started walking but cruises around all of our furniture and goes like a crazy person with his walker.  It's so fun to watch.  He's going to be keeping up with the big boys soon.  It's the funniest thing to see the older ones running up and down the hallway upstairs with Mace chasing right behind crawling as fast as he can.  I think he starts to get frustrated that once he catches them they head to a different area.

I took him for his one year check last week and couldn't believe how much he had grown.  He's now off the charts for his height (32.25") and is 75% for weight (24 lb 6 oz).  With him being really tall and only 16 months younger that Cade, I think he's going to catch him soon.  A lady at church on Sunday asked Mitch if Mace & Cade were twins.  I can see a lot of those questions in our future.  That is, once the people get over how much Cade looks like Mitch.  We get that comment ALL THE TIME.

Here are some pics from Mace's party.  It was so great that we were able to have all of our family (less one uncle) over to celebrate his big day.  We had a lot of fun.

He shoved his piece of cake into his mouth.  He wasn't messing around.

Mace & Cade playing with some new presents

Happy boy!!