The Logans: 1 Year Old

On October 6, 2011, our little Braden turned 1 year old! It hardly seems possible. Time has flown. He is a precious baby boy. Up until he learned to crawl, he was our "angel" baby. When he became mobile the "angel" title no longer fit. He can still be a sweetie and gives great hugs. However, he has the temper of a 2 year old. He arches his back, throws his head around, and points his finger at us and attempts to say "no, no". He will do this over simple things. I think we have some hard years ahead of us with this one. We thought he was going to be our calm one. We are slowly seeing that Kagen may actually be our calm one. Yikes!

He walks all over holding on to the furniture, or pushing his toys. However, he is just now beginning to take a couple of steps on his own. He'd rather crawl, or have us hold him.

He has been off of the bottle since before he turned 11 months, and on whole milk since around 11 1/2 months. These things came early because he was taking a sippee cup just as well as a bottle, and he was becoming uninterested in his formula. He still doesn't drink as much milk as we'd like, but it's good enough to get by on.

He eats pretty much any table food we set in front of him. We might pull out a jar of baby food once every couple of weeks for a snack or to supplement with. He is very quick to let you know if he doesn't want something. We are working hard on leaving the sippee cup sitting on the high chair tray rather than throwing it across the room when done. (We went through that with Kagen, too.) He can feed himself with a fork, but very slowly, so we do it for him most of the time. Most foods just get cut up and placed on his tray for him to eat with his fingers still.

We went for his 1 year check up today. He has only gained a little in the past couple of months due to quick mobility. He is only in the 20-30% which is still such the opposite of big brother. He is very healthy though and meets or exceeds all benchmarks for a 1 year old.

Weight: 20 lbs. 11 oz.
Height: 29.5"

We celebrated his birthday with a big party on October 8 in Hale Center at Mammie and Pops's house. We had a great turnout of family to help celebrate our little one's big day! That night, Zach and I went with my parents to watch Tech and A&M play football for the last time in the Big 12. We lost 45-40, but it was a good game.

Here are many pictures from the past couple of weeks:

Celebrating Grandpa's 79th birthday! Grandpa went on a week long trip to New England, so he was gone on Braden's birthday as well.