Petersen Family: Levi's 1st Birthday!

Oh trust me, I know! I am WAY behind! Sorry! Life is so busy lately. For real!

BUT, Levi turned one in July! Clear back then! July 13th to be exact. It was such a fun day. A fun weekend really. My mom visited from Texas that week so we were able to spend some time with her and my brothers. I swear I haven't seen the boys in forever so it was nice to have them around.

They had to leave town before we had Levi's birthday party, so we decided to throw a spur of the moment party so that my mom and the boys could be there. It was fun. We had AMAZING Las Vegas steaks for dinner and then cake afterwards.

Then on Levi's Birthday, which was Sunday, we woke up and opened presents and went to church, and then had his originally planned birthday party that night. We did a Bubble Guppies theme since Levi love, love, loves bubble guppies, and it turned out so stinkin' cute.

Of course, the cutest part of the day was definitely Levi. He is just such a cute kid, and he was such a trooper at that time. He had just burned his arm the week before, and then a couple days before his birthday he got Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease. He and Ellie both. But you couldn't even tell, it wasn't slowin' him down at all, which we were so grateful for.

The only thing he missed out on was the infamous "smash cake" for one-year-old's. Obviously he couldn't smash a cake because of his arm. We thought we would have him do it at Ellie's birthday instead, but his burn was still open on her birthday, so he will get a smash cake when he turns 2! If I remember to do it!

Thanks to all of our family and friends for celebrating Levi with us. He is such a fun, happy kid and we are so grateful to have him as a member of our family. We love that little Dude so much! :)

One more thing, here are his year stats for the books!

Weight: 21 lbs 5 oz 20th percentile
Height: 31.3 in. 95th percentile
Head Circumference: 19.2 in. 100th percentile

At one year Levi is still crawling, loves playing with cars, loves playing on Ellie's bed, loves to point at the airplanes flying above head, loves to bang on anything and everything, leaves a destructive path wherever he goes, is in to everything, has turned into a pretty good climber, and loves teasing his big sister. And he some how has this fettish with eating the grout in the bathroom that is starting to come out between the tiles. Strange kid! Don't ask, we don't know why! Really he just loves eating anything off of the floor, including huge spiders! But he still has the cutest dang dimples around and we totally enjoy him. What a fun, energetic kid. We Love You Levi!

Chillin' with Grandma. He was totally tired that day.

Because he was so tired he kept acting shy.

Andrew, Trevor, my Uncle Kenny and Aunt Alayne, my Mom and Dave.

Great-Grandpa Lionel and Great-Grandma Tana

And Ellie was being a ham with Grandma Trena

Then this was on his birthday at home. He was loving his fun decorations!

And the balloons. He couldn't get enough! He just kept swatting around at them.

He got this "Animal" guy from the Muppets. :)

And he was sad when he couldn't keep playing with animal.

But then he was happy once more once he saw this!

And from that point on, there was no more opening gifts. He and Ellie went to town on the Bubble Guppies toys. So mom had to open the rest of the presents.