Charlie is 1!

 After a week full of graduation festivities, we had yet another celebration for Charlie's first birthday.  Here's the birthday man himself.

 See that little tooth on top?  He has three of them now, and is working on a fourth.  And watch out, people, he know how to use them.

 We decided to have a quiet celebration at home, being exhausted from the week.  It was nice.  First we opened presents from the grandparents.

A bouncer!  Get ready, here come 100 pictures of him in this thing because he was being so darn cute.

 

 "Okay, I'm done."

Lucy thought Charlie jumping was hysterical and begs me to put him in there everyday.  I have to keep a close eye out though, because Lucy would really like to think the bouncer is a swing and that Charlie would really like to be pushed.

Time out from the birthday festivities and check out this sweet girl:

 Here is the artist herself showing pieces from her latest collection.

Back to the birthday: here is Charlie enthralled with another gift.  This little mat is filled with water so when you push on it, the little fish move around.  Charlie really likes it, but wishes he could bite those fish.

Both sides of grandparents remembered Lucy in the gift-giving, and she scored some bubbles and stickers.

And here we are with the cupcakes.  Sadly, the birthday boy could not have any.  We're proceeding very cautiously with introducing foods with Charlie as he seems to have some digestive issues (which is consistent with what other parents of children with his syndrome find).  He's mostly still eating pureed food at this point so he had some celebratory pears and raspberries.  One day I gave him diced peaches instead of pureed and he woke up at 4am and cried for an hour.  I tried it again three days later and the same exact thing happened.  Maybe you can have cupcakes next year, Charlie!