(Side note: Found that vintage, radio flyer horse at the thrift store for $3.00 last week- just in time!:)

Happy birthday to the sweetest, squishiest, most laid back baby ever. We all adore you and can't imagine our family without you! You stole my heart the moment I saw you, my Mother's Day babe. 

At one year you:

-*Love* to play ball. Sam and Grandpa Jim have been your main ball playing buddies. 

-*Love* wheels! It is hysterical. For months now you have found ways to flip over toy trucks, strollers, etc. to spin the wheels! Then you just sit and spin, spin, spin! 

- You are walking! More and more everyday. I'd say 50% walking vs. crawling now? It's so fun to watch. Nothing cuter than a toddling baby. 

- Your favorite food thus far has been watermelon. You've always been a nursing champ, and still nurse in the morning, for both naps, and bedtime.

- I think, maybe, possibly, you are having a break in teething and might sleep through the night until the next round. Teething is the pits, and the past couple of months have been challenging as far as sleep goes. Yawn. 

- Love to be outside. So glad it's spring and we can be out more! 

- you are starting to be really vocal and try to mimic words and sounds we make.

All in all, you are just a doll baby and we love you to pieces. Happy first birthday Oliver James Hunt, I'm so thankful I get to be your mama! 

I never knew a baby could actually be fun to have in the kitchen...but this guy is!! :)

Ok smiley boy, let's make some muffins! 

He loves to get those feet:)

He also rolls, rolls, rolls onto his tummy and tries to scoot and then gets frustrated and fusses. It's all going so fast with this sweetie pie, pumpkin bug, cutie patootie, bubba dubba, chubba wubba (to name just a few lovey names:)! We all just adore him, and he really is the sweetest, smiliest baby ever. Jen

Oliver finds his hand...

I love it when they do this...staring so intently at their little fists!

1 month old and growing so quickly!! He's staying awake a bit longer at a time and looking around (sometimes content not being held even!:). He, like each of our others, loves to stare at the black, iron spirals of our bed and at the plantation blinds, and our faces of course. He sleeps right next to me, grunts during the night when he wants to nurse and then usually falls right back to sleep (unless he needs to poop or burp and can't settle down, then he grunts and grunts and we don't sleep much). Loves to swing on the porch swing, loves to be in the sling. Does not enjoy being put down unless he is in a deep sleep in the evening hours. 

He's a darling boy basically, that we know for sure.:) Jen