Celebrating Cason’s FIRST birthday!!

On December 5th, we celebrated Cason’s first birthday with our little family!

He got his very first taste of cake and what better cake to introduce him to than Celebrations’ strawberry cake?!?

Excuse the mess he left from supper!

He LOVES balls of all kinds, so we decided to get him a ball pit.

This is his EXCITED face!

We now have all 517 of those balls throughout our house.

Now it’s time for a little Cason update! (even though he is technically 13 months old now!)

-We just recently moved up to size 5 Pampers Swaddlers. Hubba hubba!

-He is wearing size 12-18 month clothing and some 18 month outfits.

-He weighs around 24 pounds. He has also had an ear infection for over a month. The weird thing about him is that whenever he has an ear infection, he shows no signs! No fever, no irritability, nothing. The only reason we found out about it is because the doctor saw them at his one year check up! We tried an antibiotic for a week, and they were still infected at his check up. So then we tried a different antibiotic for 10 days. I thought he was doing fine until I got a call from school the day before his next check up that his eye was swollen. The next morning it looked worse so I took him in to the doctor and basically she said his ears were STILL infected and that’s what was making his eye swell. So then I had to take him to the doctor for three days in a row to get one shot in EACH thigh. FOR THREE DAYS IN A ROW. That’s six shots for those counting. It was awful. Hopefully, when we go back to the doctor tomorrow, we will be all clear. Otherwise, it looks like Cason will be getting tubes.

-He finally got some teeth!! Right around his birthday one popped through on the bottom and a few days later, the other bottom middle one came out! Yay for two teeth!

-Baby boy still loves to eat. He’s getting a little pickier these days but overall he will eat just about anything. Especially if he sees you eating it. Right now, he really loves bananas and goldfish.

-He is walking like a pro and can even run a little bit.

-Sleep is also great. He starts getting fussy around 6:15-6:30pm so we give him a bottle (gasp! Yes he still takes a bottle) and rock him. Then we lay him in his crib and he sleeps until around 5:30am. He is only taking one nap a day at school from noon-2pm, but at home he usually takes about an hour nap around 9am and a two hour nap from 12-2pm.

-He says uh-oh, Dada, Daddy, Mama (finally), Beh (Bella), baba (bottle), he has said buh-buh one time when I was trying to get him to say ‘brother’, this weekend I gave him my phone to play with while I was changing his diaper and he held the phone to his ear and said “hello!”. I almost fell out! He can also say bye-bye and wave. And he can blow kisses and give sugar!

-He is really enjoying playing with Noah these days. He is tall enough to climb onto Noah’s bed now so he thinks that’s super cool. They love wrestling with each other and with us. Life with boys!

-We put child locks on all the lower kitchen cabinets because he kept trying to pull out all of my pots and pans! He also tries his hardest to sneak into Bella’s room and climb into her cage. I can always tell when he’s about to head that way because he gets this mischievous look in his eyes and just smiles! Love it!

I think that about wraps him up! He is so so sweet and loving and I just love him to pieces!