Coye is ONE!

Coye turned one yesterday. One! It's crazy! I'm pretty sure this past year has gone by the fastest since I've had children. I feel like I blinked and poof a year went by. Coye has grown and changed so much in both looks and personality since his birth a year ago. He's such a sweet little boy who is developing his own little personality. He's definitely a daddy's boy unless daddy isn't around and then he'll settle for me. He hasn't started walking yet, but he does like to practice standing by himself. He has completed our family more than we could have ever imagined and we are so thankful to God for giving him to us. Here's what he's been up to this month:

• He is starting to get a little personality and isn't quite as easy-going as he's been in the past. He will yell at us if he doesn't like something. He also likes to throw himself on the floor and throw a tantrum when something doesn't go the way he wants. 
• He has mastered crawling and is extremely fast at it. If you aren't paying attention to him, he will quickly crawl from place to place destroying and making messes as he goes. The steps have become a magnet for him and the gate has to be on the steps whenever he's awake or he'll make a beeline for them and try to climb up. He can go up, but it scares me to let him go on them by himself.
• He also loves the bathroom and unrolling all of the toilet paper, pulling the magazines out of the basket, playing with the garbage, and pulling everything out of the drawers. Therefore the bathroom door is almost always closed now too. 
• He is very sensitive and doesn't like to be yelled at or told "no". Most of the time he will immediately get this very sad face and start crying. He's a lot like the girls in this sense, Aubrey especially.
• He loves to practice standing on his own. He'll pull himself up to standing by something and then let go and just stand there until he feels like he's losing his balance. Today he stood there and took a step toward me and then fell the rest of the way. He'll walk if you hold his hands, but only for a short time. He knows he can crawl much faster and usually just drops to his knees and takes off.
• He eats mostly table food, although he is still not a huge fan of meat. His favorite things to eat right now are bread, cheese, puffs, and yogurt melts. He prefers to drink apple juice over water. 
• He finally started sleeping through the night about a week and a half ago. I had cut out nursing him in the middle of the night, but he was still waking up until we went and stayed with Hannah and he's been sleeping through the night since. He will occasionally wake up in the middle of the night crying, but no more nursing during the night. 
• He loves the dishwasher and will come stand by it whenever it's open. He also loves to look out the front door and find Tess (our dog) or the cows in the pasture. 
• He would rather be with his dad than me.     
• His top teeth came in so now he has four teeth (two on bottom, two on top).

One year old

Sitting still for a moment

Practicing standing by himself

Posing for a picture outside

Another favorite place to play - the food cupboard

Sitting on the chair

Looking for the cows

My three beautiful kids