Happy Birthday Troy!!!

Happy first Birthday Troy!!! 6/28/10

Troy loves this car with a passion! He doesn't really get it moving too much but he loves to get in and out and honk the horn and play with the steering wheel and key!





Troy turned 1-year-old today!! I feel like that is such an exciting Birthday because they are a little less baby and a little more toddler. You can tell people that they are one instead of age by months. Although I feel like he's a little more grown up he still seems like such a baby to me. A little more babyish then Hailey was at one and maybe partly because I'm kinda comparing him to a 3-year-old or it's hard to remember exactly what she was like 2 and 1/2 years ago. We love Troy so much. This boy truly melts my heart on a daily basis. We had some babysitters on Saturday that were unfamiliar and he was tired and sad when I got there and then as soon as I went to hold him he put his head down on my shoulder and put his arms around me and stopped crying! So sweet. Also I feel like just about every time I go to get him up from a nap or in the morning he's so excited to see me/us(Hailey likes to come in too) and usually gives me a good squeeze (Hug)! Tonight we had a little celebration in honor of Troy's Birthday. I especially like having it on his actual Birthday. We had planned to play at the park and I was very excited about this idea but the weather had it's own agenda. (Rain of course in New Mexico... how random!) So we took the party to our house and we were pleasantly surprised with the turn out! It was a lot of fun! Sometimes parties stress me out but this one was pretty low key/low stress so it was lots of fun!

And this is why I HATE Styrofoam! Awesome Troy excitedly ripped it into tiny pieces and the stuff floats every where! Hailey also enjoyed breaking into tiny pieces. (This didn't happen at the party just another night.)

Cousins!

We got to see our cousins last week who flew all the way from Texas! I couldn't believe how perfectly Nathan and Hailey just clicked. We heard a lot of, "I love you", "Your my friend." "Where's my Nathan?" "You're my Hailey." They were so cute, lots of hugging, lots of hand holding, and pretty much were inseparable. Definitely made me wish they lived closer! We also got to know julia tons better, she's getting prettier all the time! She called Troy soccer boy. We weren't really sure why and then Joe realized that she was saying sucker boy because he sucks on a pacifier. So cute of her! Troy also started taking a lot of steps, more on that later! We miss them already and can't wait to see them again! And to meet our new cousin that is on the way! We had so much fun with them!!

Dryer

I think that at some point every kid has to do this but Troy surprised us. It was a Saturday afternoon and a little too quite so I ask Josh to look for Troy and this is where he found him. It seems like Hailey didn't do this until she was like 18 months. Troy loves playing in there and takes any opportunity he can to get in there but it's a little scary watching him try to get out. This is like the bathroom, we always have to keep the door shut or he'll get into trouble. His favorite is swirling his hand in the toilet bowl water! He's a sweet boy with lots of personality!



Hailey wanted to get in on the fun too! Sweet kiddos!