Birthday Boy

Ben turned one yesterday, but we've been celebrating all week. Last Monday we had all of our Folsom family over for cake and ice cream. Ben didn't eat much of his smash cake, but boy he sure made a mess of it. I forgot to get an after picture, but we took all sorts of video. Hopefully I can grab a frame from that.

We didn't do much on his actual birthday because we had a lot of other things going on, but today we went and got his one year pictures taken and then got ice cream at Leatherbys.

We were doing peek-a-boo to get him to smile. He started covering his ears whenever we did peek-a-boo, trying to do it with us. It was so cute!

Oh Ben. We love him so much. He loves to cuddle when he is tired or sick. He loves being part of the action. He tries so hard to keep up with Luke, and wants whatever Luke is playing with or imitates Luke whenever he can (including, to our chagrin, when Luke is throwing a tantrum). He started walking consistently at about 10 1/2 months. He waves bye-bye, plays peek-a-boo, claps, and gives high five. We call him our beggar baby. He wants to eat whatever we're eating, no matter what. Even if he just ate. Even if it's something he hates, like avocado. Here's to another year with him!