If we could eat like children

I remember the days when I could eat anything I wanted and never gain a pound. Oh those days were nice. Well we are running into those days some what with Garet. This child eats all the time and everything we put in front of him and he is still not up to the weight that his doctor wants him to be. At his dr appointment this past Thursday he weighed 20lbs 5 oz. This puts him in the 5% for weight. He is now 30 inches long so that puts him in the 50% for length. So now we are having to try to give him a higher daily calories intake. This can be very hard to do this in a healthy way. Most of the food that have high calories are not the best for you in other ways. Eggs and Avocados have now become our good friends and we are soon going to try out peanut butter to see how that goes.

We go back to the Gainesville in a month and we will see what they have to say and see if they have any other suggestions for us. Other than the weight Garet is doing really well from what we can see. He is a nonstop 1 year old. He is learning so fast that sometime is can be scary. He sees us do something once and he want to do it right away. It is so much fun to watch him learn and grow. I feel so lucky to have this opportunity to have all these special time with him.

Grandma Rose is living in Florida and is getting her house all set up the way she wants it. We will keep hoping and praying that Grandpa Charlie gets to move down here at some point as well. We really do miss seeing him all the time. Garet has now been staying with her during the day for the past couple of weeks. the picture above is Garet helping daddy replace the screens in the front window at Grandmas and Grandpa house
One of his new favorite things to do at Grandma and Grandpas is sit in the wagon. From what I hear it is now the spot he sits for his snacks in the morning and afternoon.

We are getting all geared up for swimming season. It is going to be so much fun to have Garet in the pool since he loves the water so much. Well until next time. God Bless

Now and Then

I have been messing around with some photo art for a chat site I am member on. On this site there are about 40 or more moms and we all had our babies around April 2009. So we are going to make a short clip with all of our babies when they were born and close to there one year old birthday. I have taken on the task of creating the clip for out group. So I thought I would post a couple and see what you guys thought would be best. Final work will come from he group but you guys always have a work to input. I look forward to your comments.

Happy Birthday Garet

We now have a 1 year old on our hands. What the difference it makes. Since Garet has turned 1 he has really started to show his personality more.

For lunch on his Birthday his daddy and a bunch of friends and family guys took him to hooters for his birthday. From what I heard Garet ate a lot of chicken wings and really had a good time. There were no girls allowed so I can not tell you exactly how good of a time he had. Ha Ha.


After hooters Daddy and Garet headed back to Grannies house were Garet got to take a nap and get ready for his big night out. We met up with some friends and family at Chuck E Cheeses later that evening for some pizza and game playing.


Garet like Chucky as long as he was not trying to touch him. We had a great time and played a lot of games and visited with friend.
Cake time. This was his first experience with frosting in any large amount. Thank you to Ganny for the cake and making it with Whipped icing instead of this icing.

Overall it was a very good day and I think Garet had a great time. We are going to celebrate a little bit more when Grandpa Charlie and Grandma Rose come in town next weekend. You can never have to much party time for your birthday.