Preston 1-Year Stats

Preston (aka: Critter, PJ, Licious)

1-Year-Old

Things I love:
-swimming
-playing in the toilet
-pound and roll-ball toy
-talking to strangers
-grapes
-popsicles
-feeding myself
-pacifier
-the burp rag (his special 'lovey')
-cameras

Pet Peeve: Sitting on the grass.  Not getting to play with phones and cameras.
Catch Phrase: Oooooohhh!
Height: 33 inches
Weight: 25.5 pounds
Head: 18.5 inches

Words: Tries to say Dad, Dog, Cat, Mama...but not well enough to call it the 'first word' yet.  Signs (when he feels like it) all done, more, milk, drink, dog.
Nursing: averaging 6 times a day, for total of 45 minutes.
Teeth: 5 (2 on top, 3 on bottom)

Sleep: about 14 hours (usually 7:30pm-6:30am with 2 naps at 9:30am and around 2:30pm) Still up once or twice at night.
Movement: At his birthday he was taking 3-5 steps when pressured, Now, 2 weeks later he is letting go on his own and trying to walk as much as possible.  Takes up to about 20 steps at a time.  Crawls leisurely until he sees a cat, or an open bathroom door, then he books it.

Brielle at 1-Year
(her stats-since they are not it that post-were Height: 32inches Weight: 21lbs 3.5oz)

Ethan at 1-Year
(his stats are almost identical to Preston's, but his head was an inch bigger.) :)

End of the School Year

 Over the course of the school year, she definitely grew taller, grew in teeth, made friends, loved school, but excited for summer...

Happy 1st Birthday Preston!

Preston turns 1 today!

He got to celebrate 2 days early on his Grandma Finlay's birthday with our close-by extended family.

He was VERY excited about his cake (and the fire on top of the cake.)

After digging in with his hands, he went for the spoon...

apparently that wasn't fast enough, so he went for the face plant.

He frequently gets hosed off after meals.  And loves it!

Aquarium of the Pacific

Ethan got to go on a field trip to the Aquarium of the Pacific with the preschool programs at the school he attends speech class.  He loved the chance to ride on the school bus.

I was able to bring meet him there (along with Preston, and cousin Elise.)

The loved all the touch tanks best.  These moon jellies were very cool and interesting texture.

It was fun to see and learn about more ocean animal life.

And, just to prove Preston came, I did finally get him in a picture before we left.  He was in the ergo the first part of the day, then transferred to the stroller to eat lunch.  He seemed to enjoy it as well.

Preston's First Steps

Santa Ana Botanical Gardens

We have been in southern CA for almost 5 years now, and have still not run out of new places to try.  I love that there is so much to do.  We got back to some favorites again and again, but I've been trying to get to some different sites as well.

I took Ethan, Preston and Elise to the Santa Ana Botanical Gardens.  Ethan and Elise were being particularly silly this day...and enjoyed posing for the camera as such.

Ethan's favorite spot was the butterfly pavilion.  He was so excited to have butterflies landing on him.

I loved the variety of colors and space for kids to run and explore.

Elise loved this 'fancy' bridge with all the gems.

we all had lots of fun, obviously. :)

Yesterday, Brielle also got to go to the gardens on a field trip with her school.

She said her favorite part was learning about the different colors of the plants and how you can know how much water they are getting or need.

Sea World

After James' conference, we were able to go as a family to Sea World.  The Warnick's drove down to join us.  And, since it only cost an additional $2 to get a season pass, we all decided we'll go back a few more times this year.  We've already been back once...so this post has pictures from our first 2 visits to Sea World.

Ethan was the only one of the kids that wanted to sit in the soak zone for the shamu show.  He and James, who sat with him were rewarded with a great view, and only got a little bit wet.

James had this thing spinning faster than it has probably ever spun before.  The kids loved it.  Luckily no one got sick.  And in fact, Gavin, who hadn't been feeling very well before this ride, came out feeling much better and ready for more play time.

We've loved all the aquariums.  Especially the touch tanks.

Brielle loves Manta, the big roller coaster they have there.  Ethan isn't quite tall enough to try it out yet.

But they both love the Shipwreck Rapids ride and were soaked after going three times in a row.

Ethan doesn't seem to mind getting wet. :)