Monthly Birthdays
Yesterday, Oscar turned 14 months old. Crazy! He is such a force to be reckoned with now!
Well I was working on finishing up his "baby" book (which is something I'm determined to do before he turns 2) and got to the birthday page. Oscar had multiple birthday parties - we decided that since we waited so long for our special little man, that we'd celebrate him monthly and all the changes and growth he went through. So, we tried to take a picture of him in the same chair every month to show how much he changed in his first year. It's pretty dramatic, if you really look at the pictures! He went from laying in the chair, to sitting by himself, to us having to hold him in the chair, then to not allowing us to put him in the chair at all (see bottom corner - eleven months)! Oh, how my baby has grown.
So, the first picture (top left) is Oz after his first week out (of me, that is). We celebrated it with his Diva and Poppa. He was so tiny that we had to put him in his bouncy chair for this shot. The next one (directly to the right) was when he turned one month old. I made some cupcakes to celebrate and stuck a plastic rubber duck with a one on it on top. (Thus the monthly cupcake series began - bad for my waistline, but whatever. It's a celebration.) Poor Oz never got any cupcakes. Maybe this is why he didn't enjoy his first birthday cake at all. That would be daddy's fault. He didn't want an early sugar addict.
The next pic (top middle, toward the right) was his second month birthday. This is when Oscar started smiling and becoming more of his sweet little self. The third month birthday (top far right) was a big one as you can probably tell. He has shock and awe written all over his face! This was celebrated with the Bennetch clan - cousin Emma, Aunt Becky, Uncle Andy, Diva and Poppa. He didn't realize that he comes from such party animals! Birthday number four (far left, second row) was a cowboy party because we got a cute hat and teeny tiny boots for him. This was about the time Oz started on solid foods. Number five (far right, second row) was a Sesame Street party. We thought it was appropriate because Oscar started getting fascinated with Cookie Monster. He LOVED whenever we'd talk like Cookie Monster. It cracked him up. Weird, I know.
When he turned six months (far left, third down), we had a Dr. Seuss party for him because he started getting into the Dr. Seussish board books (written by Eastman) like "Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb." I could read that book to him a million times and he'd want it again. This boy LOVES being read to. We did a luau party for Oz for his seventh month (far right, third down) because it was spring and getting warmer (and Mommy wanted to). This boy was all over the place by seven months! It was seriously hard to keep him sitting in his chair at this point. We had a mishap during this photo shoot. Oz jumped out of his chair to get at a cupcake (in his defense, they looked incredible - I mean, who wouldn't want one?!?) and neither one of us caught him in time. He got a big bruise on his noggin and the photo shoot promptly ended.
At eight months old (bottom left corner), we had a pirate birthday party for Oscar. This was a fun party because we had Jeremy and Christie visiting with their two little ones, Luke and Julianne. Jules is about a half a year older than Oz, so he had fun playing with her. Dad made a giant paper and cardboard box boat for Oscar to play in, too. He thought it was great. Nine months (bottom left, middle) was another big birthday for Oz as my family was visiting again. This time it was Emma, Becky, Jerry, and Andy that were here to celebrate with us. Emma and Oscar were not firemen, they were "fire people."
When ten and eleven months rolled around, Oscar was a full fledged WALKER and was no longer interested in sitting still for pictures, so as you can see, those were a big challenge! He had a monkey celebration for ten months (bottom middle, to the right) which was perfect because he literally acted like a monkey at that point. He was climbing up everything he could and getting into all sorts of Curious Georgesque trouble. We found a clip-on monkey tail that drove him bananas, but I got some hilarious pictures of Tim tossing him up in the air with that monkey tail flapping in the wind. Month eleven (bottom right corner) was a dinosaur theme because Oz had just started growling. And yes, we lost the chair battle. His growl was just too fierce.
Finally, Oscar's twelve month / one year birthday party (center) was a grand celebration, attended by lots of people that adore him. We were so lucky to have so much family there to celebrate it! He had both sets of grandparents, Uncle Andy (dressed as an Indian, even), Ms. Mary (Mommy's dear friend from the library), our good friends Brandon and Emily, and Oscar's favorite playmates Katherine and Christina with their parents Wing and Deb. Oscar was beside himself and was more interested in playing with his buddies than with taking pictures and eating his first cake. It was a fun day, though. We celebrated it cowboy style as Oscar's most favorite book then was Cowboy Small by Lois Lenski.
I love that this mosaic of pictures tells so many stories about who Oscar is and the journey of him getting there. It's not streamlined, but neither is life and neither are we! But it is a great representation of our first year as Oscar's parents and of our amazing little man.
Well I was working on finishing up his "baby" book (which is something I'm determined to do before he turns 2) and got to the birthday page. Oscar had multiple birthday parties - we decided that since we waited so long for our special little man, that we'd celebrate him monthly and all the changes and growth he went through. So, we tried to take a picture of him in the same chair every month to show how much he changed in his first year. It's pretty dramatic, if you really look at the pictures! He went from laying in the chair, to sitting by himself, to us having to hold him in the chair, then to not allowing us to put him in the chair at all (see bottom corner - eleven months)! Oh, how my baby has grown.So, the first picture (top left) is Oz after his first week out (of me, that is). We celebrated it with his Diva and Poppa. He was so tiny that we had to put him in his bouncy chair for this shot. The next one (directly to the right) was when he turned one month old. I made some cupcakes to celebrate and stuck a plastic rubber duck with a one on it on top. (Thus the monthly cupcake series began - bad for my waistline, but whatever. It's a celebration.) Poor Oz never got any cupcakes. Maybe this is why he didn't enjoy his first birthday cake at all. That would be daddy's fault. He didn't want an early sugar addict.
The next pic (top middle, toward the right) was his second month birthday. This is when Oscar started smiling and becoming more of his sweet little self. The third month birthday (top far right) was a big one as you can probably tell. He has shock and awe written all over his face! This was celebrated with the Bennetch clan - cousin Emma, Aunt Becky, Uncle Andy, Diva and Poppa. He didn't realize that he comes from such party animals! Birthday number four (far left, second row) was a cowboy party because we got a cute hat and teeny tiny boots for him. This was about the time Oz started on solid foods. Number five (far right, second row) was a Sesame Street party. We thought it was appropriate because Oscar started getting fascinated with Cookie Monster. He LOVED whenever we'd talk like Cookie Monster. It cracked him up. Weird, I know.
When he turned six months (far left, third down), we had a Dr. Seuss party for him because he started getting into the Dr. Seussish board books (written by Eastman) like "Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb." I could read that book to him a million times and he'd want it again. This boy LOVES being read to. We did a luau party for Oz for his seventh month (far right, third down) because it was spring and getting warmer (and Mommy wanted to). This boy was all over the place by seven months! It was seriously hard to keep him sitting in his chair at this point. We had a mishap during this photo shoot. Oz jumped out of his chair to get at a cupcake (in his defense, they looked incredible - I mean, who wouldn't want one?!?) and neither one of us caught him in time. He got a big bruise on his noggin and the photo shoot promptly ended.
At eight months old (bottom left corner), we had a pirate birthday party for Oscar. This was a fun party because we had Jeremy and Christie visiting with their two little ones, Luke and Julianne. Jules is about a half a year older than Oz, so he had fun playing with her. Dad made a giant paper and cardboard box boat for Oscar to play in, too. He thought it was great. Nine months (bottom left, middle) was another big birthday for Oz as my family was visiting again. This time it was Emma, Becky, Jerry, and Andy that were here to celebrate with us. Emma and Oscar were not firemen, they were "fire people."
When ten and eleven months rolled around, Oscar was a full fledged WALKER and was no longer interested in sitting still for pictures, so as you can see, those were a big challenge! He had a monkey celebration for ten months (bottom middle, to the right) which was perfect because he literally acted like a monkey at that point. He was climbing up everything he could and getting into all sorts of Curious Georgesque trouble. We found a clip-on monkey tail that drove him bananas, but I got some hilarious pictures of Tim tossing him up in the air with that monkey tail flapping in the wind. Month eleven (bottom right corner) was a dinosaur theme because Oz had just started growling. And yes, we lost the chair battle. His growl was just too fierce.
Finally, Oscar's twelve month / one year birthday party (center) was a grand celebration, attended by lots of people that adore him. We were so lucky to have so much family there to celebrate it! He had both sets of grandparents, Uncle Andy (dressed as an Indian, even), Ms. Mary (Mommy's dear friend from the library), our good friends Brandon and Emily, and Oscar's favorite playmates Katherine and Christina with their parents Wing and Deb. Oscar was beside himself and was more interested in playing with his buddies than with taking pictures and eating his first cake. It was a fun day, though. We celebrated it cowboy style as Oscar's most favorite book then was Cowboy Small by Lois Lenski.
I love that this mosaic of pictures tells so many stories about who Oscar is and the journey of him getting there. It's not streamlined, but neither is life and neither are we! But it is a great representation of our first year as Oscar's parents and of our amazing little man.
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