Benson's Finally ONE!!! Hallelujah!

 

We made it!!! We actually survived Benson's first year of life! Poor guy was in so much pain and discomfort for at least 9-10 months of life. We are so very grateful for God's goodness in giving us strength and moments of sleep and joy during those very difficult months. 

I am very happy to say that Benson is sleeping through the night and is such a happy, happy baby today!! He is such a joy to our family and is the cutest little toddler! 

At the doctors appointment we found out he is 99% for height and 75% for weight. He looks much older than he is. Maybe he will be taller than Dad someday! Just last week he started walking (at 13 months old). He is such a tall boy and has preferred crawling over walking. 

Some things Benson loves is baths, the pool (playing in water of any sort), sucking down baby food packets, homemade popsicles, being in mom's arms, pulling out everything he can out of cupboards, playing outside on the slide or swing or seeing the animals in the backyard. He also enjoys going for walks and does pretty well in car rides. He does not, however, like strangers to touch him or hold him. He is good with people smiling and talking to him but if you try to touch him, those smiles are GONE! He is getting super, super busy and wants to get down and explore now. Church has become very difficult the last few Sunday's with Cade on the stand. We do the best we can. 

We love our cute Benny-Boy and don't know what we would do without him in our family!

His actual Birthday opening gifts and eating cake. Cade and I literally bought him one thing, haha. We got him a nice pair of shoes for walking. We knew Granparents and aunts would buy him all the boy things :). And he actually did pretty well with his cake. At least much better than most of his sisters. He loved the strawberries on it most.