Ben is ONE!

1 YEAR STATS

Height: 30.5 in (2 in increase in 3 months) 75th percentile

Weight: 20.2 lbs (1.7 lb increase in 3 months) 15th percentile

Head: 18.4 in ( .5 in increase in 3 months) 55th percentile

He's a one-year-old!  Into everything!

At least he cleans up. :)  Sorry it's sideways. 

He's into mimicing

He's a snuggler-- Who wouldn't love that?!?!

And this picture makes me realize just how big he's gotten. :(

Very into puting things into containers.

He's a dancer too! 

He's also into driving his big sister nuts!  

Or she's into LETTING him drive her nuts when he wants to play with her princess stuff. :)

Other things he's done in the past 3 months:

• Lots of excited biting
• Teething along with an ear infection and pink eye Thanksgiving week
• End of November- started standing alone and balancing
• Getting very bugged by big sister taking his toys
• Sat on Santa's lap 
• Beginning of December- Waving
• Two top teeth came in within the same week
• Currently has 6 teeth, three on top, three on bottom.  The left side is coming in first.
• Mid December- Clapping
• Took his first steps on Christmas Eve.  It's finally his preferred mode of transportation now
• Dancing at ANY music he hears, including hymns in church
• Loves to give BIG open mouth kisses
• Beginning of January- pointing at what he wants
• Starting to get quite attached to his binkie and blanket
• Has had four hair cuts in the first year of his life
• Starting to ween- I'm quite sad this nursing era is coming to an end.  I'm letting him lead the way though.  
• Introducing whole milk
• Had a blast at his birthday devouring most of TWO cupcakes!  Pictures and videos of that still to come

We just love having this little boy in our family!