1 year old!

Today is Landon's birthday!  It is so cliche but true to say that we cannot believe how quickly it has gone by!  He has grown so much and is learning new things constantly.  He is finally crawling for real pretty consistently (instead of army crawling) and just started pull himself to standing.  He smiles and laughs all the time and loves waving and interacting with other people, especially kids.

We had a party for him this past weekend- we shared the party throwing duties with our friends whose daughter was born the day after Landon so it was double the fun!  We did a farm theme and had a petting zoo (with stuffed animals), duck pond and a barn cake with animal cupcakes!  It turned out great and everyone had a great time (especially the two guests of honor).  Landon made an absolute mess of his cake even though he only ate a few bites of it, while Gracie was much more methodical and careful with hers. I'll post some pictures in a separate post.

We had a cardiology appointment last Thursday and everything heart wise looks great.  There are some collateral (extra) veins that we'll have to keep an eye on over the next several months but nothing to be concerned about right now.  We'll go back in 2 months for another checkup.

As far as what we've been up to since the last post, we were in Atlanta over Labor Day weekend for Brittany's wedding and enjoyed seeing the whole family and celebrating with Brittany and Josh.  We have also been fortunate to be able to do some fun activites with Mended Little Hearts - we went to the Denver aquarium one weekend and the zoo the next!  We thought for a few weeks that Landon's ears had cleared up for good but he's had 2 more ear infection in the last few weeks which makes 5 ear infections in 2 months.  We have an appointment with ENT in Denver on Friday so they'll do an evaluation and will hopefully be able to give us an idea of whether or not tubes will be effective.  We are all ready to be done with ear infections, especially Landon!  We feel blessed every day to have such a happy, growing, active boy!  It has been a crazy year and we are grateful for where he is today and SO appreciative of all of you who have supported us over the last year (and more)!  We have received so many prayers, encouraging words and offers of help and we are starting to understand the phrase "It takes a village to raise a child".  YOU are our village and we thank you!