One Year Ago...

Happy Birthday Porter!!!

Just a few minutes old

Porter Tullos Hollern

the "stats" on his hospital door hanger

May 29, 2007 3:56 pm

7 lbs. 8 oz

19in Long

Today is sweet Porter's FIRST Birthday! This year has FLOWN by and we have had so much FUN with Porter! We are so blessed and thankful that Porter has had a healthy and easy year!One year ago today I was at the hospital waiting to meet Porter--thinking it would be that night but he was ready to come out and meet us at 3:56 pm!

We're having his birthday party on Saturday and I know there will be LOTS of pictures posted later of that!!

The beginning of Labor (I was huge and swollen!!)

Ryan on phone--telling everyone the good news!

Ryan holding Porter for the first time!

first day home from hospital

We LOVE you soooo much and are excited to see what you learn and how you grow for the next year!

I was so lucky to have the easiest labor and so far Porter has been the easiest AND best baby!!

That'll probably catch up to us soon =)

Porter will KILL me for this one day...

BUT I just had to post this cute picture!

Along with a few others from the last few days!

How cute is that?!?

Showing off his awesome dance moves!

What in the world are we going to do with this hair??
It stood up like this ALL day--nothing I did to it helped!

We met Mimi (my mom) and Nana (her mom) in Jackson for lunch today when Mimi flew in from AZ!

Porter and Mimi

Porter loved lunch but didn't really want to take pictures, but would gladly play with Nana's necklace =)

Porter and Nana

Speaking of Nana--she went on a cruise a while back and brought Porter back some shirts from all the places she went. Well I saw "guatemala" in the drawer tonight and decided to put it on him (for the first time) , NOT a moment too soon!! This will probably be the only time he wears this one--it's Tight!!

future male model? maybe?

Porter Tullos Hollern --The 1st year (some of my fave's)

Since Porter's Birthday is TOMORROW (wow!) here are some of my favorite pictures over the past year!

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I still can't believe he's ONE YEAR OLD (almost), it makes me happy and sad at the same time just to think about it!

Time has flown!

Enjoy!!

Oldies BUT Goodies!!

While cleaning out and organizing my pictures I came across some collages from Christmas and Haloween last year and I couldn't resist posting!

Thursday is Porter's birthday and I just can't believe how much he's grown and changed since these were taken!!

Pool Fun!

Porter is going to be a fish!

He loves the water...hopefully we'll be able to spend some more time in the pool for Memorial Day if the weather is good!!

Fun at the park!

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Here's some pictures of Porter at the park recently! He always has so much fun at the park--especially eating mulch and whatever else he can find (see post below) !

What goes in, MUST come out!

If Porter sees ANYTHING new or interesting to him it goes straight to the mouth!

This has been going on for awhile now!

This invariably leads to me sticking my fingers in his mouth many times a day, including constantly at the park!

This happens so much that he knows when I'm going to get something out and he shuts his mouth as tight as possible and usually tries to run away!!

I really hope he outgrows this soon!!!!

More park pictures...

so happy to be outside

going down the slide was so much fun, Porter thought he'd try going up

Trying to run away from Mommy--this happens alot when we're outside!

The favorite at the park--SWINGING

Going back to the swings

Look at those curls =)

Porter hair is getting longer (in the back at least!) and now is starting to curl!! So Cute!

Porter did not get his curly hair from me or Ryan! Must be the Terry Tolar gene coming out ;)

Bye Bye Bottle!!

Porter enjoying his "last" bottle after swimming in the pool!

Porter has given up the bottle! I was hoping to ween him off of it at his first birthday so I started given him milk in his sippy cup a few days ago, thinking I would do it slowly! But now he won't TAKE the bottle at all (which is great because if he still wanted it I would be out buying formula right now)!!

I really didn't think it would be too hard because he's been taking it less and less but I really didn't think it would be this EASY!

We are so lucky and blessed that Porter has been such an easy baby and adapts to changes so quickly and easily!!!