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Wow. Where did the time go? It feels like yesterday I was blogging about the birth of our precious baby boy, but now, here I am, blogging about his first birthday!

Charlie's day started off with a bang! His momma and daddy both came in to get him out of his crib while singing Happy Birthday. He looked at us like we were absolutely nuts!

For breakfast, I made Birthday Cake Pancakes! They were quite delicious AND very colorful! Charlie ate a big pancake all by himself.

This part of his day makes me feel like a mean momma; we went to Mayo for Charlie's 12 month appointment along with 3 vaccines... It wouldn't have been so bad if the nurse had made the appointment on time. I made it for 8:15. We were brought back to the patient care room right at 8:15, were told to strip down to a diaper, and then proceeded to wait until 9 o'clock to be seen! 45 minutes with a "naked" baby in a cold room when he was getting ready for nap time. I was less than enthused. I was even less enthused when the nurse came in and told me it would be a 45 minute appointment!! What?! She made me watch a power point on how to parent while my little 1 year old was squirming and shivering away! Stats from the appointment: 22 lbs 11 oz (74th percentile) and 2 ft 7 in (94th percentile)

Anyways, we eventually made it home for a short nap. After he woke up, we headed back to Rochester to pick up Aunt Amanda. We went to Monkey Junction at Resurrection Life Church. It was a blast! They have a ton of toys for kiddos to play with! Charlie was so enthralled with the other kiddos! After we played, we went to Applebee's for lunch. Yum yum!

After we had an afternoon nap, we went to Mr. Pizza with Grandma Becky and Grandpa Buck. The pizza was out of this world delicious! Great Aunt Marybeth joined us as well. She's staying with my parents tonight just in case the weather is bad in the morning.

When we got home from Mr. Pizza, Charlie was finally able to open his present from us. Here are some pictures! If you want to see some other pictures of Charlie's day, you'll have to check out Facebook/Instagram for that!

He wasn't super excited about opening the presents.

 But he warmed up to it!

It's a magnet/white board/felt board! He even got some cool new animal magnets! 

 He really enjoyed the animals! He could pick out the cow, sheep and kitty by name, and he said moo and baa for us!

 Here's a picture of the other side. I bought a ton of felt to cut out shapes and other things for him to play with on this side. We know it was a successful present because he did not want to stop playing with it even though we had his big bottle full of milk sitting there! He just wanted that giraffe!

Charlie got mail from all over today! He got a package from Los Angeles, CA from my Great Aunt Marsha. She sent an adorable teddy bear. He also got a card from Connie and Duane, Aunt Mindy's mom and dad! How sweet of them! And he got cards from Aunt Laur and Aunt Jill and Grandma Cher and Grandpa Alan! We even talked to Great Grandpa Arnie all the way down in Yuma! I'd say this is one lucky boy! We are excited to celebrate with family this weekend!