Celebrating Under the Big Top!

Beckett's first birthday was yesterday! Before I get to the one-year update, I'll tell you about his epic party. It was circus themed, and included hot dogs, soft pretzels, cotton candy and lots of other goodies. I had so much fun planning it, and was able to do it for a reasonable amount of money, thanks to Pinterest and all of my homemade decorations!

I picked my two favorite pictures from every month of Beck's life so far and strung them together to hang on the wall.

Cotton candy! It was a huge hit - with the adults!

Family portrait after he (I) opened all of his presents. He got lots of great clothes, toys, books and even a rocking horse! We went out the next day and bought him some fancy new shoes with some birthday money he got too.

This look is trouble.

He absolutely loved the cake and would have easily eaten the whole thing if I hadn't taken it away from him.

This kid was loving life right here. He was actually a lot neater than I thought he would be! No frosting in his hair at all.

We all had a great time at his party, I'd call it a success! Now to start searching Pinterest for ideas for his 2nd birthday party!

What's going on here?

About a week ago, we started transitioning Beckett over to whole cow's milk. So I've been adding an ounce or two of milk in with his formula at each feeding. A few days into this, I noticed he was getting bad diaper rashes, even if I changed him right after he went and applied ointment. Then he started waking up several times at night, crying and wimpering, even when we would hold and rock him. He's also really gassy at night when we would rock him.

So now I'm wondering if it's connected to starting on cow's milk. Does he have a milk allergy? Lactose intolerant? We've stopped the cow's milk and are back on just formula to see if his problems resolve and he goes back to sleeping through the night.

Or is it teething? Is he getting his one year molars? He just sprouted two new teeth a couple weeks ago that are slowly making their way in.

Poor guy.

Oh, and he also had a small bout of Croup this weekend. He still has a little cough that also wakes him up at night. The boy just can't catch a break.