Russell,
One year ago you were born. You have been stubborn from the beginning showing up late, the night before your scheduled induction. You surprised us with your weight at 10 lbs 3 ozs. You were amazingly handsome right from the start. Your stubborn personality is still here. You get so angry when we take something from you. Your growl and dirty look makes us laugh every time. Oh and lets talk about your "I am in trouble" smile... you are notorious for getting in trouble and then looking at us with a smile, your nose and eyebrows scrunched, and a goofy giggle. I know you understand the word no. You just think its a joke when we say it. You are always looking for something to do and always on the go. Unfortunately you never want to cuddle anymore which makes us sad. You would rather be crawling everywhere and finding something else to study for a bit. Although when you do want to cuddle on those rare occasions you still always want mommy. You are intrigued by things... you will sit and play with the same toy...putting each piece in different places until you learn all that it can do. You have learned how to walk but so far, choose not to. We catch you walking 4 or 5 steps and you aren't even wobbly and you go pretty fast, but then you sit down and crawl because you are faster at it. I know in time you will walk and cause us more trouble. I can't believe that our baby boy is 1 now, and those baby days will never be back. I love seeing your personality come out and learning what type of boy you will be, yet Mommy misses her little baby who I rocked to sleep everyday for 8 months. Russell, you are the best baby boy a Mommy could ever ask for. We love you so much.

Russell finding baby dinosaur eggs in the dino egg hunt.

Big brother Jack trying to show little brother Cole all of the eggs he found for them.

Russell digging into his bright blue argyle cake. Yummy.

Happy family!

The twins helping Russell open up his birthday present from them.

Its nearing the end and poor russell is so tired.