1 year!

How is it that this little boy is already 1?

We celebrated by having a couple of neighbor families over for dinner. They were all involved in Asher's early entrance last Labor Day weekend. It was a sweet celebration. Asher's dairy-free, soy-free, gluten-free, egg-free cake. Can it really be called a cake? At least it had real chocolate. And lots of sugar.

Ash thought it was delicious and happily munched away while we all ate our dinners. I'm not sure he even threw any on the ground. No after-bath necessary.

More cake the day after:

Here come his stats and growing pictures:

31 1/2 inches tall, 92 percentile, 3/4" taller than C at this age

20 lbs 12 oz, 12 % (!!), 1/2 lb. lighter than C

He doesn't seem that skinny so this stat surprises me.

4 teeth with 2 more on the way

Cruises around holding onto furniture, walls, his sister, or anything he can grab a hold of and he just started standing without support. 

2 weeks old:

One year old! waving to the camera.

We also met with his allergist this week and found out he is classified as severely allergic. His numbers from the blood test in April were incredibly high (bad) - total IgE count was 383, people without allergies have a count less than 0.35. His counts were especially high for eggs, wheat, and nuts. We will have him tested again next April but in the mean time we are going to try to re-introduce cow's milk. Wish us luck! It would be heavenly to be able to have cheese and ice cream again...

His skin looks great. Between diet, lotion and near-daily baths his rashes and eczema have nearly disappeared. Yay! Overall a happy, healthy, adorable kid. We love him!