Happy Birthday Christian!

It's hard to believe, but Christian is already 1 year old!



He is getting so big, and doing new things every day. He crawls, "cruises" around on everything he can pull up to standing on, has 4 teeth, and loves his camouflage blankie. He loves to follow his big brother and sister around, and especially imitates everything Andrew does. He's still a mama's boy but likes to make new friends. He isn't really saying any words yet (sometimes "mamamamama" for me, and the occasional "dada" so we think that's "daddy"), but he understands everything you say to him and makes his desires known by forceful grunts when he's not pleased and giggles when he is. He studies everything, and very quickly figures out how things work. We're so excited to have him in our family! (and he better start walking and talking quick because baby sister will be here soon...)

He didn't really get the hang of opening presents, even with all the practice at Christmas, but he had 2 helpers that were more than willing to jump in and lend a hand -- which, of course, may be why he didn't feel the need to rip open the presents.



His helpers also blew out his candle for him.



He didn't dig right in to his cake, just gingerly felt the top of the frosting and then looked around like, "Okay, what am I supposed to do now?" But as soon as he got one bite he was happy to keep 'em coming.





Andrew and Willa had to capture the moment with their cameras as well.



Happy Birthday Big Boy!