Theo's (better late than never) 2nd Birthday "Interview"

20 Questions with Theo (Answered by Mom)

1. How old are you? Two 
2. What are your nicknames? Tee-door, Bubba, Ted (when Dad is trying to get on Mom's nerves)
3. What do you love about Mom? Snuggles
4. What do you love about Dad? Everything! Swimming. 
5. What do you love about Lily? Playing chase in the living room. 
6. Who is your best friend(s)? Lily. Otherwise, Hannah from church. 
7. What do you want to be when you grow up? Marine biologist
8. What is your favorite TV show(s)? Octonauts
9. What is your favorite movie(s)? Moana
10. What is your favorite song(s)? ABCs. Dance parties to Disney 
11. What is your favorite book(s)? Bible, Mickey Seek and Find, Curious George, Go Away Big Green Monster
12. What is your favorite thing(s) to do? Run! Snuggle with mom, sit on the potty, read (aka tear up) all the books. 
13. What is your favorite toy(s)? Octonauts, block puzzles, cars, Rocket the stuffed raccoon, the toy broom set
14. What is your favorite food(s)? Anything. But you ask for bananas, pears, crackers (any small carbohydrate) and cheese sticks most often
15. What is your favorite color(s)? Sometimes he knows the color green.
16. What is your favorite animal(s)? Sharks
17. What makes you happy? Dancing, tickles, watching Octonauts, wearing other people's shoes. 
18. What makes you sad? Being told no, staying in his bed, not staying at preschool with Lily. 
19. What is a big thing you learned this year? Sleeping in his new room, working on potty training now. 
20. How should we celebrate your birthday? We had an Octonauts themed party.

A Few Favorite Pictures from This Year

 

Theo's Peter Pan 1st Birthday Party

Theo is ONE! 

It's cliched, but so true that the days are long and the years are short! 

It's hard to believe it's been a whole year already. Where did this baby go?

We celebrated the fact that 

"All children, except one, grow up" 

with a Peter Pan themed birthday party. 

I designed the invitation in GIMP and then printed it via Shutterfly, which ended up cheaper than buying the cardstock and envelopes because I had reached the free shipping limit already. 

Theo got a special onesie that says: Never Grow Up - Theodore Robert is One. 

Typically my father in law prints our birthday shirts (it's his job) but because Peter is Disney licensed, I made this one with a simple iron on transfer. 

I kept food really simple because of the time of the party - just cake, fruit and lemonade. 

I got the idea for the design of the cake from Pinterest HERE

Decor was based around Peter Pan before they leave for Neverland - 

Peter's silhouette in the window, Tink's in the lantern, Wendy's thimble, John's top hat, and Michael's teddy bear around the cake table. In the living room were lots of pictures of the birthday boy and Peter's pesky shadow. 

The only true activity we had was to sign a copy of the Little Golden Book version of the story with a "lovely wonderful thought" to help Theo learn to fly. Otherwise we just spent time with family and friends, opened gifts (and by that I mean Big Sister and Cousins opened gifts and Theo played with the paper) and ate cake. 

 

Theo is ONE!!

Big Events  

• 3/1 - "11" Months old
• 3/12 - Survived daylight savings time
• 3/17 - Family pictures
• 3/27 - The flu struck 
• 3/30 - Theo is one!!
• 4/1 - Party time!

Size/Percentile: As of 4/3/17

• Weight - 19lb 9oz (8%)
• Height - 29" (24%)
• Head - 18.4" (63%)

Daily Schedule: 
Up around 7:30, Cheerios, milk sippy and playtime, lunch at 11:45, nap 12:15-3; snack, milk sippy and playtime til Dad gets home family walk/errands, dinner at 6, bath and bed at 7.

Things I Love:

• Fruit Loops
• Pillows
• The stairs
• Clapping, shaking and drumming
• His stuffed rhino

This Month's Milestones:

• Sleeps through the night
• No more bedtime bottle - just a story in the rocker with Lily 
• On to whole milk
• Fishy-face kisses
• Attempting to make Mom's elephant noise

Highlights of the Month:

• Moved up to 12M pajamas and 9 or 12M shirts, but still needs 6 or 6-9m pants. Sorry bubs.  
• We used up the last bag of Mom's milk on Theo's birthday. He is now just on cow's milk and Mom is so excited about how much easier it will be to travel for Easter - no frozen bags OR formula!
• Unfortunately for Mom, with age comes intelligence and he has learned how to take the lid off his cereal/snack cup... and loves shake shake shaking things. 
• Two weeks before his birthday, Theo just slept through the night. And then he did it again. And again. After the 5th night, Mom finally decided she wouldn't be jinxing herself and added it to the baby book. 
• Swim lessons are going much better than the first few weeks. He still just hangs out in our arms, refusing to kick, splash or really move, but he seems to at least enjoy it now. 
• It's finally getting nice enough to re-start our family walks and Theo still loves the Ergo. He rode in it for all our walks so far, and at playgroup, but he just got a wagon for his birthday, so our baby-wearing days may be coming to a close. 
• The week of Theo's birthday, he started off the family with the flu. He was sick Monday night and Tuesday, Dad and Lily were sick Wednesday night and Thursday and Mom just felt gross all week. By his birthday on Thursday, Theo was back to himself, but the rest of the family was down for the count, so it was a pretty lame birthday. I'm so glad that he won't remember this one! 
• But! We were all healthy in time to still celebrate his birthday with a Peter Pan Party on Saturday. Read about it here. 

this is my "Mom shared her ice cream" face

credit: Jennifer Lee Photography