Birthday boys

Before the big day we just took a quick trip to Party City, I like that they had lots of things for different themes. We found the aisle with all you could wish to buy to celebrate your baby's first year, I wanted to get everything to throw a big party, we were only window shopping and wanted to take a few pictures with some hats for the first year birthday boy, he wasn't as excited as I was, but here is our little model.

Obviously he didn't want to stay sitting in the cart, as usual he wanted to push it, but if you have ever tried to hold him so he can push the cart you know it's really hard to do that, because he's not a feather!  We chose to put him inside the cart basket so he could a get a ride, which he liked.  I know it's not very safe but it helped to make him happy and distracted for a little bit.

On his Birthday, we took Joel to the library, he was very happy to be able to go out and be free with more room around to explore, he likes to play with LEGO's which right now means throw them away, not interested in building anything yet, also to be walking every where he can...

Even though it was Tuesday, we made a little celebration for the two Birthday boys which are the LOVE of my life, wish we could have something super fun but it wasn't possible this time, we had lots of things going on during the last two weeks of the month.

Can't believe how fast a year has gone, and now I can see how much more we have grown.

Joel is our little angel, we are so blessed to have him in our home, he makes every day even better, he helps us to be better and try our best, he is always making our day the happiest of all, because we can see through him the LOVE and trust that our Heavenly Father has in us, and because sometimes we are more tired than him, we are trying to figure out where all that energy comes from if he doesn't like to sleep as we thought babies would do, because we love to sleep, we'll see when he is a teenager and has to go to seminary how that goes.

1. Joel weights around 30 lbs., height is around 33 inches -which is in the 99 percentile of his age-, size of shoes is 6, as of today.  But they fit pretty tight.
2. He started going a few steps by himself before he turned one, and started walking like a pro two days later.
3. He likes when we sing:  "The wheels on the bus", "Head, shoulders, knees and toes", If you are happy", "Patty cake". 
4. Some times it takes him a little while to feel comfortable with some one, (I think it is this stage) because before he was celebrating everybody around, when you know him you realize that he likes to make funny faces, likes to laugh a lot besides that he's very ticklish like his dad.
5. Since he was a baby he loved books, so now he enjoys to sit down and go through his books by himself if we are not around to do some story time.
6. He likes technology (computers, mouses, cellphones -that work-, remote controls, play the key board among the top ones, and I want to mention that he's very good at finding buttons that we never figure out before or that they exist ahhaha!) probably all babies now are born with a special chip; he also likes to play with everything that belongs to dad, like his belt, shoes, name tag, pen, little notebook, and of course with him.
7. He also likes to play with simple things like a box of cereal, empty gallons of milk, bottle of water, bottle of shampoo -during bath time-, blankets and pillows. (When we were preparing our 72 hr kit, we were thinking about taking some toys but we realized that he will be happy playing with a few things around, so a couple books are the only ones we will take).  
8. He's our little explorer, likes to find new things in every room where he is.
9. He likes to make faces like shaking his head, rolling his eyes up, and flexing his neck muscles.
10. We love him so much, he has a great spirit in a little body, he's smart, sweet and huggable!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY our little one!!

JOEL FIRST YEAR!!!!!

Our little family -Together Forever-

Celebrating Daddy's  Birthday!!!!!

What can we say about our dear and loving head of our sweet home, he is a very dedicated man, husband and dad. He is a very hard worker, caring for family, friends and people around, always willing to serve and share, good example, honest, faithful, humble, smart and loving.

Joel and his first piece of cake!!!

To tell you the truth, he wasn't very impressed and attracted to it, instead of eating it, he was just smashing and playing with it, we had to put a little piece in his mouth to see his reaction, but he didn't care that much, even though we love it!

We had a good time, we made a homemade pizza because we know that one of the Birthday boys will love it, and the other one will learn very soon.

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR........