The Davenport Family: One Year Ago

One year ago today, Gabe and I headed to Brookwood for a routine visit and came home Sunday with a brand new baby boy. Nicholas has opened our eyes to a whole new world, one that is better because he is in it. We love you booboo and look forward to many more birthdays!

Friday morning was spent at Portrait Innovations getting his pictures made. The last time we went was for his 3 month pictures. I had called to get the earliest appointment, but for some reason when we got there I wasn't in the system. An hour and a half and over a hundred dollars later, we left with a tired baby (or I should say toddler now) and some super cute pictures (they had to crop my arms out of a few of them).

Friday evening we had another first. Nicholas took his first steps! Gigi, Pawpaw, Daddy and I were all in the living room last night after eating some dinner. Nicholas was between the the love seat and lazy-boy standing up. He took one step towards the coffee table and then realized he would be much better off to go to the lazy-boy, which was much closer. Gigi was so excited she screamed out. I saw the last bit of it and Pawpaw and Gabe unfortunately didn't see it at all. He has since taken steps that everyone saw. So exciting!

Unfortunately Nicholas had a rough night after that. He went to bed around 9 but woke up an hour later screaming like he hadn't screamed in many, many months. Nothing worked to console him (rocking, teething ring, a car ride, etc) until of course we put on Baby Einstein. It was very reminiscent of when he was just born and we had no clue what the problem was or how to fix it. This time we suspect that it is teething pain that is bothering him because he has been drooling a lot, but haven't seen any new teeth pop through. Hopefully it is his teeth and they will soon pop through.

We had his birthday party today at Leeds First Baptist. It was perfect with all our family, lots of pizza and beautiful cakes that Mimi made.

Nicholas received plenty of wonderful gifts including: a baby pool, some cute clothes, a Radio Flyer riding toy, helicopter toy, some building blocks and much more! Thank you all so much for coming and sharing in this special day. It was perfect! Here are some pics from today (Nicholas was just a bit tired by the time we got to opening his presents):

Just hanging out at the party