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Happy First Birthday Wesley!!!!!

We love you so much and have enjoyed this past year having you in our family. What a great way to start off the New Year by celebrating that you are ONE year old! And it's wild to think that you are already going to be a big brother :)

So, what are you up to these days??

You have gone from 7lbs 13 oz to about 23 lbs in your first year. You started walking around 10 1/2  months and have pretty much given up crawling all together. You have 7 teeth: 3 on bottom, 4 on top.

Most days you have an appetite like a 5 year old. You are pretty good at feeding yourself with your fingers. I just started putting things on a fork occasionally and you can get the fork to your mouth 90% of the time. Some favorite foods are oatmeal, yogurt, bagels, most fruits, peas, pumpkin, meats, Cheez-its, ravioli, and pancakes. You recently discovered scrambled eggs and jello and have taken a love to those as well. We are giving you whole milk at breakfast and dinner and you seem to like it. You are nursing 3-4 times a day and mommy is slowing weaning you, which you don't seem to mind.

I'd love to post that you are sleeping through the night, but it's still not happening. It happened once a few weeks ago but was a fluke. You usually get up once a night but are sleeping about 11-12 hours. Before Christmas you got a sinus infection and were up 3-5 times a night for many nights. We are working our way back to better sleep now that you are feeling better. Right now you are transitioning to just one nap a day for 2-3 hours. You have been waking up later in the morning so this is working well, but if you get up super early you still need 2 naps.

 Wesley, you are in love with your brother Xavier (most of the time). You like to follow him around, do what he's doing, and give him kisses. You do NOT like it when Xavier tries to hold your hand and lead you somewhere. You want to go on your own terms! You enjoy a good game of  "cart and truck" around the house with him, playing racecars together, and standing on the step stool together at the bathroom sink!

Some other things you love are coasters and vaccums. You love to carry shoes around the house, yours, or anyone else's. You are very interested in putting things in containers and then taking them out again. You like music and will sway side to side or bounce up and down to the beat. You have figured out that a phone goes up to your ear and you try to "talk" into it. You LOVE to be held, especially by your daddy, and are quite the snuggler. You like to hide under things and have us yell "peek-a-boo". Recently you've shown an interested in basic puzzles. You LOVE taking baths and being naked. When you see the dishwasher open you come running as fast as your chubba little legs will go. It's pretty much impossible to load the dishwasher with you around.

We have a zillion nicknames for you and you respond to most of them. Hopefully we are not confusing you too much :) It's getting harder to take pictures of you because you have started to charge for the camera when  you see it. Case in point...

For the most part you are not afraid of much. You like people, animals, and climbing anything in sight. I feel like your motor skills are more advanced than Xavier's at this age because you are always watching him. You seem to figure out how to get in, on, or over something much quicker (keeping me on my toes!) Mommy gave you your first full haircut about a month ago and you look adorable.

Verbally you are a busy boy. You don't say many actual words, but you "talk" to us all the time and respond back and forth in conversation. Here's how you feel about turning one:

A little then and now.......

Happy First Birthday Wessa Blessa!