Andrew Alpaugh Blast From the Past

For those of you curious about his stats.... here they are. His weight is 25.6 pounds (85.64%) his height is 32 1/2" (98.68%) and his head is 19 1/4" (97.44%). No wonder my body aches carrying his big self around and up and down stairs. He got 3 shots and did cry a little bit this time. I don't blame him though the way his leg was bleeding. Guess it's time to say good-bye to the bottle. That should be fun. We also are going to have to work on putting him to bed with no bottle or rocking. We did this last night and he probably cried for about 15 or 20 minutes before falling asleep. Seemed like an eternity to us!

Click HERE to see more pictures of Bryson's 1st Birthday Party. Covered in cake and icing, Your smile stretched ear to ear. A single candle celebrates, The joy of your first year. We sing Happy Birthday, You play midst wrap and bows. We marvel at how you touched our lives, Just one year ago. I remember the first time I held you, Kissed your head, whispered your name. You've changed our lives forever, Our hearts will never be the same. As a child you'll love this day, For all the sweets and presents too. As parents we'll love your day, For the gift we got was you. Each year we'll add another candle, So proud to see you grow. But always with the memory, Of your first day long ago. - Teri Harrison

We took Bryson to Portrait Innovations for his birthday pictures. They turned out great! Click HERE if you'd like to see all of them.

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Well- there's not a whole lot going on around here to post about. We served in our church nursery for the first time ever yesterday :-) and LOTS of screaming babies. Wow! There were a couple of girls that were good as gold and played contentedly the whole time. There were about 3 who cried the whole entire time and then 3 that cried off and on. Bryson was right across the hall from us and we got to see him a few times. Once when I looked over he was throwing things over the gate out into the hall! Crazy boy! He has been really bad lately about biting, hitting, pulling hair and just being right down mean. I was telling Andrew how I would be horrified if he bit another kid or pulled hair or anything. Don't know what were going to do with him. Aghhhh! One of the boys in our nursery actually bit a little girl and pulled her hair. Anyways- hopefully this is just a phase he is going through. Our pastor is doing a series on spiritual warfare and I thought I would sha

Click HERE if you would like to read yesterday's message by our Pastor- Dr. Frank Page.

Click HERE to see more cute pictures of Bryson in his new pool. He has really started getting in to balls so we thought it was appropriate to buy him a big bag of them all his own. :-) As you can see..... he really enjoyed them.

CLICK HERE to see more pictures. We celebrated the 4th at Carowinds. Andrew's mom stayed here with Bryson this time so we could ride some rides together and knew we would be very late getting home. We didn't leave til around 3. We managed to do a few things in the water park . After that we ate dinner, then it was off to the ice skating show. Emily really enjoyed that. Then we rode a few rides, watched fireworks and headed home. The wait to get out of the parking lot was at least an hour! By the time we got home it was about 1:30 in the morning! CRAZY! I guess we're just getting too old to enjoy such things HA! Even though it made things easier and we didn't have to listen to whining in the back seat..... we missed the baby like crazy! That was just too long to be away from him.

Just ONE of the many shirts Tyler purchased at the outlets today. :-) He also got a pair of jeans and a hat. Hmmmm...... I wonder if he has any money left???

CLICK HERE to see some video of Bryson staying busy while Mommy and Tyler were shopping. :-)