Birthday Update

Roman turned 1 on the 28th!! It's so crazy to think that I am the mama of a 1 year old. Seriously, where did the time go!

His party was great! We had a packed house of people whom are very dear to us! There was wacky cake, pumpkin muffins, fritos, homemade vanilla frosting, maid rite sandwiches and plenty to drink! The only potential hazardous food there were the buns for the maid rites. I tried making them myself with no luck and I was down to the wire. Oh well. I'll perfect a recipe for hamburger buns later.

Roman has his 1 year check up on Friday. After that I'll post photos of his b-day bash, and his stats, and let you know how the check up went. We're going to see a new ped., so we'll see how it goes! Fingers crossed!

11 Months!

My sweet Roman. You are 11 whole months old today! I cant believe we only have 4 short weeks before you turn ONE! You are incredibly fun! We had a big month last month! You hit a lot of milestones, and we are so proud of you! Here's what your up to:

• Still not sleeping through the night
• You LOVE your bottle! (see photo below...we're going to have to break you of this...)
• You learned to crawl! army style... it's too cute!
• You also learned to sit up from a laying down position! woot woot!
• You have 4 teeth, and working on some more
• We see Dr. Michael Jorgenson on a bi-weekly basis for good chiropractic care!
• Learned new, super funny ways to use your mouth
• Babbles a TON! Pronounces the 'p' in his "phrases"
• You say: 'apple' (everything is apple), 'up', 'out', 'mama', and "uh-oh"
• You weigh around 27 pounds!
• Still have severe food allergies, but mom and dad are praying everyday that they go away!
• Mom can tell you fake cry. It sounds VERY forced! ha!
• You have a beautiful smile, but have a cheesey smile too...quite funny!

I love you with all my heart, baby man! You are indeed the most amazing blessing from God!! Love you!

cheese smile

aww...snuggled up with, wait, your bottle?

Apple

Yep, you heard it right. My baby is talking now. He also says "uh-oh". He's growing up too fast!

The Next Baby Gap Model???

I just entered Roman into Gap's 'Casting Call'. They are looking for kids and babies to be the next face of baby and kids Gap. Here's a link to vote for Roman as the Fan Favorite! If we win this one, we'll win a trip to some exotic place for 6 nights!!! A panel of judges ultimately chooses the next model, but if we win that here is what we get:

~$1000 gap gift card

~Roman's face across baby gaps, nationwide starting in February, 2010

~VIP experience for 4 at The Lion King in either NYC or Vegas

~Professional Gap photoshoot (obviously)

Please vote for us!! :) (oh yeah...the website requires you to register with them, which is, I think, dumb, and you can vote only once per day. We have a lot of catching up to do!!!) :) Thank You!!

http://family.go.com/gapcastingcall/entries/mamabarton/832343466/

Latest Favorite Thing

I love how he holds his legs out cause he know's otherwise it would cause drag! ha!

We Got Our Pumpkins....

Tuesday night we had dinner with our awesome friends, the Dewhursts. We love those people! We had planned a night of dinner and pumpkin pickin'. Dinner was great (thanks Laura!) and when we reached our pumpkin picking farm (just off of hwy 30 before Boone) there were some amazing finds! The photo above is pre-picking. Roman was rocking the sweater vest. Totally could be a Baby Gap ad baby....

Roman LOVED being in and amongst some lovely,large pumpkins!

He also loved the stems of the pumpkins. Couldn't keep his hands off of them! :)

Then, yesterday I thought it would be cute to get a photo of 2 of him outside with the pumpkins we bought...but Roman was waaaaaay more interested in the grass. And who wouldn't be?!

Here, Roman is showing me his finds, "look mom! what IS this stuff?"