Two stories.

Before Sean’s birthday party, I was sweeping the kitchen, bathrooms, and entryway and Sean was interested in what I was doing. In the kitchen, I showed him how I used a little brush and dustpan. He wanted the brush so I gave it to him. Then he followed me into the bathroom, holding the brush. When I needed it again, he gave it to me, then I gave it back. He followed me around to the other two rooms, carrying the brush the whole time and giving it to me to use. Then he tried to brush his hair with it. He learned how to brush his hair last week so I guess he was trying to see if all brushes are multi-functional.

I thought he had been teething for a while, because we noticed a small amount of drool and had some random night wakes. But, other than that nothing crazy. He always wears his amber teething necklace and he does love teething biscuits. Last week for some reason I thought “oh I’m sure we’ll know when a molar comes in because those are supposed to be horrendous”. But, he doesn’t like me to look in his mouth and like I said things have been pretty normal. So imagine my surprise when the pediatrician showed me a giant molar sticking up halfway out of his gum yesterday, and another one that is about to break through. Good for Sean for making it through!

Sean turned one on Friday! We are loving having a one year old. His personality is coming out more and more and guess what? He is friendly, passionate, vocal, helpful, sweet, inquisitive, and playful. Sounds like another person I know who lives with us.

On his actual birthday, we gave him his present, a Radio Flyer bumper car, and took him to have his picture made. He had a good day. Funnily enough, it had been sunny and warm most of the week but rained hard on his birthday and was cloudy all day. Just like the day he was born! I remember being in our apartment having contractions and watching the rain out of the window. It kind of spoiled the plan to walk outside while laboring, ha, but at the time I didn’t think about it because I was busy with the new plan. Anyway, on his birthday the rain was a sweet reminder of what we were all doing a year ago.

On to the fun stuff.

The Process of Learning About Your Birthday Present ~ by Sean Everett

First, have your dad put you on it.

Decide to get off and hit it to see if it hits back.

Turn it over and inspect the undercarriage.

Having determined that the present is okay, allow Dad to push you around.