Moses' 1st Birthday

Our baby Moses turned 1 today!  

We started the day out with his breakfast fav...blueberry muffins!

For lunch, Andma and Mama came over for a little celebration.

87 year old Andma celebrating 1 year old Moses...priceless.

Then tonight we had our family celebration.  We took Mo out for his first car ride in his new big boy seat.  He was more than a little excited to be able to see out of the car!

And in Vincent fashion, we went to "chick-o-lay" for his birthday...ya know, just to make sure we broke the car seat in with a couple fries.  Then we came home for a little more cake for our 1 year old!

This morning Matt and I woke up to our little man standing between us beating on the headboard and shouting "Dada".  It's so hard to believe that it's been a year since he was born! 
One year ago...we had just finished laughing hysterically at you tube videos of Bill Hader (actually trying to get the labor going...hysterical laughter does it for me), Matty was falling asleep, Mary and I were having a fierce game of Words with Friends, and I got up to get something when...whoosh.  And you know what sound means ladies.  My water broke with the one who the Lord had said would be named Moses (drawn out of water).  My God has an awesome sense of humor!  Well this whole water breaking thing had never happened to me before.  It had happened to my sister 9 days before me when she gave birth to her first little boy, but it hadn't to this Hafey girl.  So we waited around kinda not sure what to do for a bit.  We loaded the car, I continued my Words game, we talked and laughed on the couch...and then came the contractions.  For the first hour, they were about 10 minutes apart...again, a new thing for me.  With the other two boys the contractions were 5 minutes apart right from the start.  My mama said, "wait til they are down to 7 minutes, then I will meet you at the hospital to get the boys."  So we waited another hour and they went straight to 5 and there was no turning back at that point. 

On the way to the hospital

We rushed to the hospital, the boys went with Grammy, I got my epidural...which this is the fun part...that thing never kicked in!  Apparently, I was too far into labor for it to do a whole lot of good.  Great news. 
Now after having our strong willed Boss via c-section because he didn't want to turn, this VBAC was quite the experience for Matty V.  He was amazing though, coached me through the whole thing...4 hours and 4 pushes later...our little Moses was born.

You bring such delight and joy to our lives Mo!  Throughout this past month, rocking you to sleep has been my sweet place.  We are so thankful for you little man and we can't wait to see what the Lord has in store for you.  Happy 1st Birthday MoMo!