1st BIRTHDAY!!

Oh My GOODNESS!!  We have been so busy lately...November is flying by and well tomorrow is Kypton's 1st Birthday.  It's so exciting to celebrate as he has grown so much this past year but this mama is going to miss her baby boy.  He is growing more independent each day...

He started walking around 10.5 months (yes, I have been lacking on blogging!) he talks so much now.  We are up to apple, hi, no-no, yea-yea, dog, mama, dada, quack-quack and other words were not sure of...right now we are working on ho-ho-ho for some holiday spirit..

We had his birthday party actually last week--it was a lot of fun--and a lot of work getting it together but we are so thankful for all of our friends and family that could make it.  Kypton has a lot of people that care about him and we feel so blessed!

I know I haven't put up 11 month photos and there wont be any photos on this post as we are again at my parents house!  I told them I think they just like when we live with them for the fall months.  Haha--sadly not the case.  A long story short, we got rid of the two dogs :( It was super hard but we knew that they needed a home where they got more attention.  I never thought that when we had kids we would skimp on dog time.  I thought after the kids were in bed we would cuddle with the dogs..not the case after Kypton is in bed...I am past ready for bed.  So, sadly, we made the hard decision to give them up. In doing so we found fleas (NASTY!!) I know everyone says it's bound to happen when you have pets but really NASTY!!  So, our home is being treated and we didn't want Kypton around the chemicals even though some people would say they are safe.  Well, we would rather be safe than sorry...so we are here, Dan goes to the house everyday to check things out and do a little cleaning.  Needless to say I am a paranoid freak now when it comes to anything small and black...(more so than usual!)

The past few weeks before Kypton's birthday I helped my parents tear off wallpaper in their formal dining room, and paint the kitchen, entry, and the formal dining.  We cleaned top to bottom.  The night before his birthday my mom and I were up until 4am working on things.  It all looks amazing now (not that it wasn't nice before) and updated :)

Kypton and I have been spending our days doing laundry and making sure the house stays clean.  kypton isn't sure what to do with all the room he has to walk around in.  I think between their main living-level and the stairs he gets more than the recommended amount of exercise haha.

Tomorrow we will be taking our first trip to the zoo.  Now that he really points and is really interested in things around him we thought it would be fun to do on his 1st birthday :)

I think that is about all I need to catch you up on..I will be sure to get photos up asap..it might be a few days if not more..we shall see.

We hope everyone is doing well and ready for the start of the holiday season.
We are ready for some good eats this week :)

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