My Super Sweet Little Wilder,
You are almost a year old! Your birthday is almost here-where has the time gone?!?! I couldn't possibly be more proud of you, the little boy you are growing up to be just warms my heart!
I have been planning your first birthday party for weeks, we are going with a "sweets" theme because you are simply the most sweet and adorable child on earth. The theme suits you perfectly well. You have been walking for 3-4 months now and are practically starting to run. You have a really good arm and have learned to throw a ball with quite a bit of precision for such a little guy. You find great joy in throwing a ball, either to me or daddy or even just out in front of you and then going after it yourself. You will throw it, chase after it and pick it up and then throw it again...it is simply adorable to watch. You throw with wild laughter that is such an intoxicating sound. Daddy and I both stop in our footsteps each time we hear that big growly laughter that you exude when you are happily throwing your ball around.
You are such an easy going little guy, you are so patient with your big sister which is a very good thing since she is in full toddler mode and often wants to play with whatever you happen to have in your hands. For the most part you are flexible and just find other things to play with but more and more lately you are starting to vocalize frustration and take the toy back from her. I am proud to see you stick up for yourself as you gain confidence and it teaches Lulu to wait her turn, which is a hard lesson for any 2 year old:)
We just celebrated your first Halloween and you were the cutest little (not-so) Cowardly Lion on earth. Though you couldn't really eat the candy you had fun trick or treating and daddy enjoyed the haul that your cute little face earned:) Next year you will be old enough to eat candy so daddy will have to dress up and trick or treat for his own candy:)
Your car seat is now forward facing and that has really helped to bring you past your fears of being in the car after dark, though to be totally fair, you were starting to come past it on your own before we turned your car seat around. I knew you would grow out of that sooner or later and indeed you have-it's just another sign that you are growing up.
We moved your crib into our room since Lulu and you were not doing very well going to sleep at night in the same room. You guys were staying up so late playing peek-a-boo and chatting with each other in your baby-talk ways. It was cute but neither of you were getting enough sleep. Now that you are in our room you are getting more sleep but you still wake up at night wanting a bottle so we are working to get past that. You go down to sleep very well now, at night and for naps. You have become a really good sleeper for the most part, much to our relief:)
Your two upper eye teeth have come through so you look like a cute little baby vampire. You also have your two lower middle teeth. You give these huge open mouth kisses on our cheeks/noses/legs/wherever and the sound you make when giving a kiss is adorable. It's almost a "mwa-ah" sound that melts my heart.
Wilder, you are such a sweet, easy going and happy little boy. Each night when I go to bed and look over at your angelic little sleeping face, I secretly hope you wake up so I have an excuse to cuddle with you in your sleep. Daddy will tell you, I miss you after only an hour or two of you being asleep. A few weeks ago I even threw a few rogue Cheerios that Lulu had left in our bed into your crib hoping to wake up just to have you sleep in my arms. While I missed and ended up throwing the Cheerios to the floor behind your crib, daddy was nice enough to get you and put you in my arms. Those nights are rare but I love them because I know that you are growing up so fast and probably won't want to sleep in my arms much longer. Even if you do grow up, always remember that no matter how old or big you get, my arms will always be open waiting for you and I will always be secretly yearning to hold you...
I adore you more than you could ever know~
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