Bottle free's the way to be, happy birthday to me & thee

Been awhile.

After 2 weeks of coughs & cuddles, we're still celebrating the babe's birthday. After this weekend, we're done. At least for another 6 months.

Surprisingly, the Dr. Arch still wanted to see us for Alexander's "Well Baby" checkup, despite the fact that she's seen him at least bi-weekly for the last 3 months. It'd been a week since she'd seen him, so of course he was well...

Anyway. 24 pounds, 12 ounces. At one point the bruiser was 25+ pounds, but that Pneumonia really took it out of our little poopsic. 31 & 1/4 inches long. And all kinds of awesome.

And then she told us that bottles are out & the day for binkies is nigh. Zander hasn't had a bottle since, and he truly hasn't missed them. We're using up all the bulk formula we purchased, but when that's gone... well, I'm not sure I'll ever be able to stomach giving him cows milk... we'll see.

After our birthday celebration, Russ & Amber invited us over for some delicious pasta & amazing berry bake. Yum. They had the best birthday present for Zander too... a little too perfect. D & baby were up until nearly 10pm playing with the mega blocks. But they had fun!

Then we helped Owen celebrate his first birthday, just 4 days after Alexander turned one. Alexander had a fabulous time playing with all of Owen's little cousins; made him miss all of his Carlisle Cousins... It won't be long!

Owen gave Alexander a Mega Blocks School Bus, which quickly became his new favorite...

Until we got grandma's birthday balloons...

So, that catches us up... we're going to Carlisle this weekend, finally, to celebrate Zander's first & Norah's second birthdays with the whole fam-damnly. Including Mama Zoya, Babushka & Dirdushka. Alexander can't wait to play with all the kiddos!