Adventures of a 1 year old Boy!

Having Dimitri is such a joy and such a new experience. I don't know if it is having a boy or if I
have forgotten what having a 12 month old is like because it was so long ago that Cora and the other girls were this age. He is getting into everything! He loves the toilet (splash pool). We had to buy a new trash can that locks since he kept on getting into our old one. One day he got into a bag of apples that I had left in the hall till i could make them into applesauce! He tried to eat a few of them! Later I found pieces of apple skin all over the floor that he had spit out! He loved the apples though and kept on going for them no matter where I moved them!

So, Dimitri had his first birthday a few weeks ago! November 3rd was his actual birthday, but we celebrated on the 1st with Grandmother and Bepa,, and the Fifelski family. (godparents) For some reason I only took pictures of him and they were not easy to take. He was tired and ready for bed when everyone arrived! He survived the evening though. He Loved the Cake, whined through the singing, and went to bed right after eating the cake. I hope next year will be more enjoyable for him!




Mike helped me decorate the cake. He grilled, and that was great! It is so nice not to have to do it all and to have a husband who is willing to help me out so much.




You can see that Dimitri is not to sure of the singing! I think he would have happily just eaten the cake. I think next year he will love it. He might even want to sing along!







I can not seem to figure out how to get the pictures on here. They didn't end up on here in the order I wanted. I apologize for them being all over the place. These birthday ones seem to be in reverse order!




Dimitri cried though opening gifts and seemed afraid of Curious George.

The cake decorating assistant!

Mike gave Dimitri a bath and Dimitri had lots of fun playing in the water!

Apparently, Mike had fun playing with Dimitri's hair. Dimitri didn't seem to mind though!




Dimitri got his first hair cut later that week. Aunt L cut it for us and did a splendid job! He looks

like a little man now! Dimitri's favorite toy these days is his ball. This was a gift and he loves chasing it. mike "played catch" with him and the girls like to make him run after the ball and get it himself. As soon as he gets near it they pick it up and through it away from him. i feel bad for the little guy. I guess one day he will torture them back! Although he laughs the whole time and thinks it is a great game! Go figure!


Dimitri did not like this Curious George when he opened it. a few days later he started playing

with it. He tackled it and was laughing so much! I told him, "Monkey!" and made monkey noises. A little while later he was playing with another toy and I asked him where his monkey was. I made the monkey noise. Dimitri went and got the monkey! He did the same thing a few other times and went and got his Ball when I asked him where it was. it is so nice to see him advancing!

Dimitri went for his one year check up he is 21lbs 15ozs. his head is in the 90th percentile and his weight and height are in the 20th and 30th percentile! I think he is looking and acting so much more like his dad! We thought when he got his hair cut he seemed to look so much like his Uncle John's baby pictures!