Happy 1st Birthday Hyrum! (a day late)

So I decided I'm a horrible blogger but bear with me because I don't want to start over!

Happy 1st Birthday Hyrum! We love you so much and are so grateful you came to us! You brighten every day! We had an exciting a fun filled birthday I hope. We are going to go backwards through the day because my pics are all out of order. Sorry! The top picture is Hyrum getting into the tub after a messy cake experience. Thanks grandma for washing him!

Below is a picture of Hyrum once the cake was gone! He DUG in! Not shy at all about it!

Here is Hyrum enjoying his car cake I made him! He loved the frosting!


Below: This is at the beginning of the cake eating process. Notice no frosting on arm or eyes yet!

Here is his birthday cake all lit up! I though it turned out cute. We ended up taking it away because he was showing no signs of stopping. I didn't want him to be sick to his stomach!

We opened presents. He made out with more stuff than at Christmas. Thanks to all our family and friends that contributed! Hyrum is grateful! He played with his new toys all morning (as in today).

Hyrum climbing on his presents!

This is the birthday boy first thing in the morning!

Can't believe he was this tiny a year ago! How he has changed! We love you Hyrum!

Ben had the day off for Hyrum's birthday which was an added bonus. We got pictures taken at JCPenny to mark the event. They turned out okay. Wish Cari was here to experiment with us! The family came for the big party-Ben's sister and her family, Ben's cousin and her family, and my mom and Nate. We had pizza, presents, and cake. Our brother-in-law Ian was celebrating his birthday as well yesterday so Happy birthday to him. Thanks for sharing your day with a one year old!

We love Hyrum so much and had a blast. I don't have pictures of it but he loved the balloons we got him. That and the cake were the best part!
Here is a video for the grandparents to see him eating cake. Sorry it is sideways but I'm retarded! Enjoy!

For the Grandparents...

Hyrum has learned some new tricks this week that we wanted to post so Grandma and Grandpa Butcher could see. Hyrum is walking around everything and discovered walking with his dump truck. Ben took a video so here it is! Also- don't call the police on us but we moved Hyrum to his big boy carseat 6 days before his birthday! He loves it and loves to face forward and see us! We drove to Rexburg today to see Ben's Sister's family and he giggled the whole way there and back! Here are a few pictures of that as well!

Bye Bye Baby- Hello Big Boy

So this is lame to post about but today is my last day nursing my baby boy. After this I consider him a big boy. After weeks of cutting down to this moment-I will be done nursing tonight and tomorrow we start cold turkey! Over the last 2 weeks Hyrum has had to go down for a nap without nursing or a bottle and we are finally to the point where he doesn't scream for an hour every time I lay him down. So, I'm off to work tomorrow night and Ben gets to see how the first night of no bottle/nursing goes! Hyrum is now drinking whole milk, eating half a sandwhich for lunch, and eating about as much of dinner as I do. He must be his father's child. Although it is sad to realize in one week one day my baby will be 1 and his baby days are over and toddler days are here, I decided I love him enough to not have him be a 3 year old nursing-I guess I can sacrifice my bond to not have a weird child and get weird looks in the nursing room at church for breastfeeding a 3 year old. Enough said.

I am however really looking forward to the FREEDOM! To celebrate, Ben and I are taking a late Valentine's trip to SLC (wahoo i know) to see a JAZZ game. Ben is super excited. We are getting a hotel for the night (grandma gets Hyrum)-going to eat Chipotle which we have been missing, sleeping in, and probably going to hit a session at the SLC temple where we were married. The game is March 6th and we are on the countdown! I could get used to this!

New Addition

Nothing too exciting going on here. Here a few pictures of Hyrum in a cute new outfit Grandma Butcher got him for church. It really brings out the blue in his eyes! Only 2 weeks until the big birthday!
So handsome!
So our new addition is a brand new computer! We are sick of waiting forever for our old one and it was out of memory so I couldn't save any more pics of Hyrum-so we splurged with our tax return and got a new computer and love it. It is a HP Pavillion Elite and that's about all I know about it. It is super fast and great!
Hyrum and I go to the doctor later to see how the ears are improving. Hopefully his ear infection is gone. He has had to take this medicine twice a day for 10 days which I literally have to hold him down and close his mouth to get him to take it. I tried mixing it with all types of food and got nothing but him spitting it back out at me! I have to laugh because yesterday he decided he finally liked it and sucked it right out of the syringe! Of course-the last day of the medicine and he decides to like it!