Fun To Be One!!

Look who's turning one today! Still shaking my head over just how quickly these past 5 months have flown, but there's no time for emotional Mama to surface today cuz we have been celebrating in style! 5 months ago today this incredible baby boy was placed into our arms and life has not been the same ever since! :) We celebrated Tyler's birthday this past weekend with events starting on Friday and ending on Monday!! It was a jam packed weekend complete with lots of family, fun, amazing & thoughtful gifts, joy and celebration for this one tiny miracle. We are so blessed to have him in our lives and so very proud to love this baby boy! Its a mighty big LOVE too!

Today for his actual birthday, we are taking off for a special family outing so I only have a moment to share some photos from Saturday and make some birthday noise for our baby boy! There are quite a few pics. and believe me it was hard to decide which ones to share......no time for a slide show just now, but I do plan to make one soon! Happy Thursday to you all!!

A Chinese/Taiwanese custom is to place items in front of a baby turning one and wait to see which item(s) they are particularly drawn to. Called a Zhua Zhou this tradition brought lots of speculation from our family and it was just so much fun! The whisk represented a possible career or passion for cooking: the book represented teaching, Education/literature: the Zen bear represented the animal sciences/nurturing: the tambourine represented the various Musical Arts: the marker represented the Fine Arts; the magnifying glass stood in the Earth Sciences: the stethoscope for the Medical Sciences: the calculator for Math/Engineering/Accounting: and the bag of Taiwan money for wealth/business. Wanna see what he liked best of all?? (hint: peek below!) :)

Despite some noise from the peanut gallery and thoughts that he only went for the items in the very middle Tyler was very drawn to the tambourine and magnifying glass.....maybe a passion for the history of music? :) Oh, how Daddy's heart swelled......giggle.....

Of course he also LOVED the marker and there's that magnifying glass again! Look at that smile.....oh, how our littlest dumpling loves the spotlight!

Giddy up horse!! Our Taiwan prince and his royal steed.....a new birthday present to love on!

His second outfit of the day. We wanted him to wear the gorgeous outfit we purchased for him while in Taiwan for his Zhua Zhou. We think it was meant for him.......he looks like a living doll!

Getting a little help from his great big Sis with that first bite of cake......yum yum!

So in love with his balloons......don't worry, they were NOT left in the crib! :)

Smiles of joy from our newest citizen! If you are counting, yes that's outfit #3!! LOL But by golly a Mamas got to do what a Mamas got to do! And it WAS the 4Th after all!! ;)

I promise we will be back with more soon! And if I have not been to your blog in a bit, I WILL get caught up( and chances are I'm missing ya too!).....its just been a bit busy and a bit glorious too!!