Peahens like Cheerios

Whenever Donovan and I go for a walk I give him some Cheerios in his stroller cup. Today after I strapped him into the stroller our neighborhood peahen, Penelope, walked over to check out the stroller. Donovan decided to be generous and started throwing his Cheerios out for her to eat. She was very thankful and started gobbling them up. When he was running out of Cheerios, Penelope got brave and walked right up to the stroller looking for more. What we learned today is that peahens like Cheerios. 

Swing Dono

Donovan had the fun new experience of riding in the swing at the park. He seemed to really like it. But after about 5 minutes of swinging it was starting to put him to sleep. I guess it had the  same effect on him that it did when he was an infant. 

Soccer Baby

Donovan has been working on his soccer skills lately. He has become a much more confident walker in the last couple weeks! We have a giant purple ball that he loves to chase after in the yard. And pretty soon I'm sure he'll be able to actually kick it instead of just running into it. 

Happy Birthday Cowboy!

Donovan's Cowboy Party ended up being a lot of fun! And luckily there was no rain! We had the party in our friend's beautiful backyard. The kids got to play in a mini ball pit, ride on Donovan's car and eat tasty snacks. We had the Donovan movie playing in the background and some cowboy music on too. The best part was probably when Donovan got to dig into his cake. He didn't know what to do with it. He just picked at the icing. Then Granny showed him that there was cake underneath the icing and he went to town! For party favors we put together cowboy hats, bandanas, sheriff badges and cowboy rubber duckies. It was so wonderful getting to see all our friends and some family too! Thank you to everyone who came and made the day so special.

Our friend Brian with his baby Uriah.

Donovan and our wonderful neighbors henry and Diana!

With Grandpa Chuck!

Our friend Jenny with her baby Maddie (who is only two weeks younger than Donovan)

The backyard with Granny and Granpa

The three of us!

Donovan wondering what he is supposed to do with the cake.

After eating/mashing cake onto his face.

Donovan's First Year

This is a movie I put together of Donovan from 0- 1 year old. We played it at his birthday party. Enjoy! ...if you are brave enough to watch the whole thing you must really like Donovan!

Wanted for Being a Baby

If you see this shady character please give us a call. 

He's Walking!

So Donovan surprised me and started walking today! I called him to me while he was standed at his toy box to see what he would do and he just took three steps over to me. after that I decided to try repeating it to see if it was a fluke. He keep doing it again and agin. The finally he started just walking around the room. I'm so impressed with our little man!

I kept wondering when he was going to start walking. I guess April 23 is the big day. Here are so videos I captured of him in action. 

This last one is pretty short but I just love that he is handing his Elmo doll and has his hands in the air.