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Spencer’s favorite game is Peek-a-boo. He just loves it. He’ll put his own blanket over his head and pull it off so I can say peek-a-boo. Recently, his Grandpa (and I do it too) have been playing peek-a-boo around corners. Spencer just LOVES this, and wishes it would never end. Spencer has started to play around the corners too.

The other day, I got some video of him playing with me. You gotta watch till the very end. Spencer sure lets me know that he’s done playing…

Wednesday afternoon, began the War of the Butternut Squash. We had this big beautiful butternut squash. So, I decided to make in to a soup (sounds yummy right?).

I got all the other veggies sliced and started cooking them when it came time to do the same to the butternut squash. It was a pretty big one with a long neck and a very bulbous bottom (where the seeds and innards were). I thought the best way to deal with it was to cut it into two pieces, long neck and bulbous bottom. So I started slicing through the squash. It took a lot of work and l finally made it through when, as I was making my final slice, the knife went too fast with too much pressure and sliced right through the tip of my left pinky finger.

Holy cow, did it hurt something fierce. The first thing I did was run it under water to get a look at it, and I knew that I was going to need stitches. Then I called Adam, told him to come home and then my parents to see where they were on their journey home. Mind you this whole time, I’m trying not to cry my eyes out so I can communicate, and so Spencer didn’t freak.

When I took care of all that and was waiting for help to arrive, I finally REALLY cried. Spencer didn’t freak. On the contrary, he thought it was quite humorous. Silly baby.

The rest of the night, isn’t as dramatic. My dad took me to the ER, where we met Adam. The ER was too busy, so we went to an after hours ER that was much faster (and cheaper). I ended up with 3 stitches in my pinky finger tip and a tetanus shot. The worst part of getting the stitches was the doctor SQUEEZING my finger to look at it and giving me the shot to numb it…

The next night, I turned that squash into a lovely soup. It may have won the battle, but it did not win the war. Mwahahaha!

Spencer took his first steps! Spenc and I were at my Mom’s house working on Christmas presents for the family when Adam came in.

Spencer saw him from across the room, turned to him (while hanging on to my mom’s knees) and then let go and took a step toward Adam.

About a minute later, Spencer took two steps to Adam from the coffee table. We haven’t been able to replicate them yet, but we’ll try to catch them on film next time.

He’s getting SO big. Can’t believe it!

A few days after Spencer’s first birthday, we got his first year pictures taken. They turned out wonderfully! The setting is beautiful too. It couldn’t have been a more perfect day!

CLICK HERE for a look at all of the photos. I’ll be posting some of my favorites below.

Enjoy!

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There are TONS more if you want to take a look. We had a good time getting these taken. Thanks a million Shanna!

Wow! I can hardly believe my little baby boy is ONE! He’s been around for a whole year! That doesn’t seem possible, but it is true. This was us one year ago…

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Now, we have a great big boy.

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We had a great little party for him. It was just family, but it was fun. He didn’t get too overwhelmed, and he quite seemed to enjoy the attention. Here are some great pictures from the party (there were tons of great pictures, so we’ll only show you a few)

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He loves walking behind this now. He loves having this new found freedom.

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CAKE SHOTS! (We are having is 1 year pics done with different shots too. They’ll be great! But these are great fun)

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Such a sweetie, he wants to share with Mommy

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Both of these just made us CRACK up!

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And finally, just because the shirt is SOOOO fun. Grandpa got him this one. He couldn’t resist.

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