Hard to believe that this sweet little guy is a year old already! He is on the go, practically running now! Although he is so used to not wearing shoes on his chubby little feet, that when I put his tennis shoes on, he's still clumsy and heavy-footed walking. He still does that "Frankenstein" type walk with his arms straight out in front to help with balance, so cute! He loves doing anything that makes noise. Loves to take a hard plastic toy or ball and go over to the hard floor in the kitchen and throw it down as hard as he can. He still loves his one Baby Einstein DVD, but in desperation on one fussy evening, Daddy introduced an Elmo DVD, so now he likes Elmo a little bit too! I've given him another haircut, and have a feeling it will be an often occurrence, just like big brother! We are trying to give him regular food, but he stores it in his cheeks like a chipmunk and won't swallow it, so we're still having to give him baby food too. He loves milk but still wants to drink it out of his bottles, trying to get rid of those all together and stick with sippy cups. I haven't been nearly as strict about getting rid of the bottles as I was with Nate and Lilly!
He did great at his one year check up. Took his shots like a champ, and was so mad he ripped his band-aids right off just to show the nurse he was too tough for that nonsense! He was just over 26 pounds, and I can't remember how tall he was, but he's 75th percentile in height and 90th percentile in weight. He's a big boy!
We had a couple of very small parties to celebrate his first birthday. The first one was the day before his birthday at one of our faves, Chick-Fil-A, with a few of our friends that we get together with all the time. We had some nuggets and cupcakes!
You can't see it too well, but I made this banner of the "monthly" photos that I took of Ben with his little monthly stickers on his onesie (month 1- month 11). We just had a tiny birthday party lunch with us, Mom, and a couple of family friends. It was nice!!
My sweet Ben. You are the most awesome surprise I have ever gotten!! You caused my heart to grow bigger than I ever thought it could be, I can't imagine our lives without your sweet chubby face and your smile that lights up the room. You are the perfect (final!) addition to this family and we love you more than words can say. Happy birthday, to our HAPPY boy!
