Cooper has his 12 month visit today. I'm interested to get his weight and height but not looking forward to him getting his shots. The MMR and Menjugate. 

I gave him milk for the first time this morning.  One part milk to 2 parts formula. He was asleep before he finished the bottle. I don't know if it had anything to do with the warm milk but we're officially on our way to cutting out the formula. Woo Hoo.

That's it for now. Gotta run and get this boy ready for his appointment.

And yes, I know I still owe you the rest of his birth story.... it's coming, I promise.

Me and Mylozmom.  This picture does not have a good belly shot at all of mylozmom peanut so you'll have to go her blog to see the good belly shot.

Cooper enjoying his cake.

And now for the presents:

The party was awesome!!

This was Cooper's cake. The one just for him to do what he pleased.

 This was the cake that everyone else ate.

Today is officially Cooper's first birthday.  This time last year I was calling the hospital to see what I should I do. I had been having contractions since 2:30am but they were 10-15 minutes apart and still fairly mild.  They said, take a shower, eat some breakfast and take your time coming in.  So I did. I had the nicest, hotest shower. Ate some breakfast (I can't even remember what  I ate). Hubby phoned his mom and I phoned mine. We got ready and headed out and we were there by 11:00.  The nurses were so nice and when the doctor came in to examine me he started giving me the "go home and relax. it's not time yet" speech. By the time he had finished the internal exam, he said "okay, never mind. We're going to admit you and put you on pitocin and congratulations, you'll be having your baby by dinner time".  I thanked him as I knew he did something to get things going.

By 1:30 I was admitted to labour and delivery and we went to the room where I was going to deliver Cooper.  I was impressed with the room and happy that I had my own bathroom.  We never got to see the birthing rooms when we did our hospital tour as it's always so busy and there's really never an empty room so I had all these weird and crazy mental pictures of what I thought the room might look like.  The nurse came in and started chatting while she hooked up my IV. 

Then the pitocin started.

And that's where I have to leave you folks.......  the party starts in a few hours and I have a ton of stuff to prepare and what seems to be a 1 year old baby that is refusing to nap.