Happy 1st birthday Mr. Nicie

Our little Mr. Nicie is one year old! I can hardly believe that a year has passed since he was born! What a year!

It is so wonderful to be back in LA close to most of our family. We had a birthday dinner for Nicie at Cheesecake Factory in Old Town with all of our LA family! It was so wonderful to get in the elevator in our building with all of them - both sets of grandparents (alive and married!), and Joseph's siblings! Wow! So many people that really love our kids! It is going to be so wonderful to have them all so close by as the boys get older! They already know their family though! That is quite clear from the way they are able to be passed around from family member to family member without complaint! This is a good portion of the reason why we moved back and it is wonderful to see!



Nic and I went to Kidspace in Pasadena today. He had a great time. He is getting so mobile and his motor and path planning and getting pretty good. He decided that he would stand up and climb the stairs and then climb back up the slide. He is not walking but he is getting so close! He takes a step every once in a while but three is the most we have seen together and that was about a week ago. His ability to plan where he wants to go and get there is improving really quickly though!



He is also babbling up a storm! He has been saying "DaDaDaDaDa" for a while now and sometimes "DaDa" but yesterday I got "MaMa!" They are not words to him yet - sort of - but they are not attached to anything! But his other sounds and increasing all of the time also! I will try to get a recording of him but when I try he takes my recording device away!

He is my sweet little teething boy! He is about to get his fourth upper tooth (he has had the other three for more than a month!) He has not been sleeping very well - I will get him down to sleep and then he will wake up again an hour or so later - wide awake!

We are trying to get the boys on something approximating a schedule - up at 8:30 am and asleep by 9:30 or 10 pm! It is sort of going - we have been at it for about a week - so hopefully in a couple weeks they will have settled into it and we can all get some more sleep! Nic has been up so late! Jac has been going to sleep at somewhat reasonable times but missing his daytime nap. Nic has been napping during the day but then staying up too late! Tonight they were both asleep by 10 pm - after an exciting birthday dinner and visit from family to our apartment.

Happy Birthday Mr. Nicie!