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Zander turned one last Friday. Yep. Already. We had a party for him on Sunday and you wouldn't know he's my kid. I practically had to force feed him his b-day cupcake. Most kids dig right in and make a huge mess. Not him. He licked the frosting a lot, but didn't make much of a mess at all.


We had his doctor's appointment Monday and he's doing really well. He had to get 5 shots and a finger prick for lead level testing, and he survived. I talked to the doc about weaning him off the bottle. And I'm happy to report we are already down to just 1 bottle per day. My kid is easy. I've taken away 2 bottles per day just this week, and he hasn't even noticed. I'm SO lucky. Suri Cruise, who gets anything and everything she could ever want, still has a bottle at 2 1/2.

October 17th Z and I are taking our first plane ride together. We're going to Texas to visit my friend Sarah. American has a direct flight, but I hate that I'll have to pay extra just to check a piece of luggage. If I could just do a carry-on I would, but I can hardly carry my kid any sort of distance, much less have luggage with me! I wonder if I can bring my umbrella stroller and have that put in the "valet" section of the carry-ons. Hmm. I may have to think about that, so he has somewhere to sit during our airport waits.