12 months!

On his actual birthday!

This post is late. Really late.. nearly three weeks now, but my sweet boy you are one whole year old! What a year it has been, I still can't quite believe it's been that long.. and in other ways I can't believe you've only been in our lives for a year. Looking back on the posts from each month I think you can see how much joy and love you've brought us and it seems like each month is just more and more fun to watch.
At one year old your little personality is really starting to develop. You are still more of a cautious baby- you don't try to get in to a lot or climb on everything. You love to open the kitchen cabinets, but that's usually as far as it gets- unless it's the tupperware cabinet which you know you're allowed to get in to. You sometimes find things on the floor, but you rarely try to put anything in your mouth. You've saved us from really having to do a lot of heavy duty baby proofing, which I am very thankful for.
You are also such a sweet, sweet boy. You love giving kisses, and you usually insist on giving more than one at a time. They are the slobbery, open mouth kisses but we all beg for you to give them to us. You hug us often and love being rocked to sleep. With kids your age you are learning how to play and share. You are usually in a nursery care type setting 3 times week- church, bible study and while I teach, and you are doing a much better job at not crying when I leave you. For the past few months you've stayed with Granna on Thursdays while I tutor and you had so much fun spending that time with her. You'd try to cry a little when I left to make me feel bad, but I always knew that you were fine within minutes after I left. I'm so glad you're getting better at that.
You are now a cruisin' machine. You pull up on anything and everything and you can move around easily as long as you're holding on to something. For the past couple of weeks you've been really practicing hard at standing up on your own and can go for about a 20 second stretch now before you get scared and fall to the ground. I think you'll have it down soon!
We had a rough stretch with sleeping this month, we're not sure if it was caused by teething or what, but it seems to have passed. We had also gotten in the habit of rocking you completely to sleep, so we've backed off of that and just put you down drowsy after you've had your last bottle now. You go to sleep around 7 pm and wake up around 7 am.

From our photoshoot with Auntie Kate.

On your birthday we went out for frozen yogurt, you seem to prefer that to cake. Your tastebuds have been finicky the past month or so, it seemed for a while like fruit, waffles, yogurt and kashi fruit bars might be the only thing you'd ever eat. You've come back around to mac n' cheese and peanut butter sandwiches though, and I've even gotten you to eat peas and carrots lately! We're keeping you away from most cheeses and bananas for now, they were a little rough on your system and gave you tummy troubles. Hopefully we can get you start eating chicken and avocados again soon too.

Big boy wearing his Toms!

Here are your official stats from your 12 month checkup:
Weight: 25 lbs (80%)
Height: 30 inches (74%)

You wear mostly 12-18 month clothing, or 18months in Carters.

Post photoshoot- fell asleep on the swings ;)

I can't believe my baby boy is one, and I can't believe I've been a mom for a whole year. Being your mother is the best  thing I've ever had the honor of doing, and I wouldn't trade a moment of these days that I spend with you for anything else in the world. Your dad and I love you so very much Weston, and we can't wait to see what the next year has in store for you.