One Year

To commemorate the day and hour of his birth (today, 4am) Caleb decided to be awake and screaming like he was last year at this time. I've long since given up the intense problem-solving techniques I employed when Jonathan cried in the middle of the night. They can't talk, so to give extended effort to determining the cause is most often futile effort. I just rocked my babe for a bit, gave him some loving, and put him back in his bed, asleep. He rarely wakes up crying, so I saw it as a chance to love on him a bit since he usually doesn't like to snuggle and a chance to remember last year.

Caleb has been a man of his own since he arrived December 1, 2008 at 4:38am. He has loved to eat from Day One. He screamed and screamed much of the first two months and it would take us two hours in the evening to settle him down for the night of sleep. You would never know that he was a difficult baby by the way he now laughs and smiles. He has always loved to watch Jonathan play, and now readily imitates much of the play.

At one, Caleb is:

~ Still a great eater.

~ Happy and easily entertained. The munchkin may have been a screamer and very challenging as a little babe, but he is now a very easy baby.

~ Very easy unless he is overly tired. Then, he screams.

~ Smiley.

~ Engaged by his brother's play. He just loves to play with and watch his brother. He shrieks with delight and irritation as they play.

~ Walking about ten steps on his own at various points in the day, but often prefers the more stable mode of transportation: crawling.

~ Stubborn about wanting to use his own fork. He likes to stab the food and definitely likes to play with the food.

~ Not much of a napper. About an hour to an hour and a half daily.

~My little sweetie pie. He might not love to snuggle, but he gives kisses and love in other ways.

Happy Birthday little one!