Seth's First Birthday

With the first week of school and Everett's birthday right before, we didn't go crazy for Seth's first birthday. The day mostly went by as normal with Claire going to school and Scott to work. The boys stayed home with me. I still planned a cake smash. I baked him a giant cupcake and let him go at it. He was my first to really get messy with it. He mostly just ate the frosting, but he liked it. :) He got a bath while we cleaned the mess up and then we opened presents. We got him toothbrushes since he always wants to brush teeth with the other kids. He loved them. And then we sang and let him blow out a candle - well, let Everett blow out his candle for him. :) It was a fun day. I can't believe he's one!

10 Facts about Seth

1. Seth is ONE year old! :)

2. He is 23 lbs 5 ounces and is in the 80th percentile for weight, and he is 30.5 inches putting him in the 76th percentile.

3. Seth is my sweet, cuddly little boy. He's in a bit of a clingy stage and wants to be held a lot of the time, but he's always leaning into me, wrapping his little arms around my legs or attacking me from behind when I'm sitting on the floor or at the computer.

4. Seth has a really cute "oooh" face. Like the picture above, he makes this face a lot, when he gets excited or sometimes right before he gets upset. It's so cute.

5. At the time of his birthday he was cruising along the furniture everywhere and he could take an occasional step or two between furniture. He was crawling up on his knees and he'd still do his army crawl around also. It's only been a few weeks since, but he's now walking everywhere pretty well. :) He's also a pretty good climber. For the longest time he could climb up but couldn't get back down. He'd start crying at the top of the stairs or standing up on the step stool in the bathroom just crying for us to get him down. One of his favorite things to climb is the ladder to the bunk bed. I have to remove the ladder during the day so he can't climb it. :)

6. Similar to Everett at this age, Seth loves balls. He gets super excited when he sees people playing with a ball at the park. He points to them and makes his "oooh" face. :) He also has a pretty good arm. He throws balls to us and seems to love the game catch and throw. Although we're still not sure he's meaning to, he says "ba" a lot of the time while pointing to round things making me think he might know what he's saying. :)

7. He barely got his first tooth maybe a week before his birthday. The second tooth was not far behind. I felt like he was teething forever. :)

8. Seth has not been my best sleeper. He wakes up often and I've gotten really relaxed and usually give in to him pretty easily by nursing him back to sleep or bringing him into bed with us. I've tried a few times to sleep train him, but he's pretty persistent and will cry forever. And right now with our new school schedule, it's so much easier to give him what he wants so we all get more sleep. :)

9. He's a pretty good eater. He loves blueberries, bananas, graham crackers, and ice cream. He also is pretty willing to eat whatever baby food I spoon to him. He does not like beans. When he's done eating he starts throwing food (where do they learn that??). He's a pretty big eater. I feel like I'm constantly feeding him.

10. He has such a sweet relationship with Claire and Everett. He can't quite play with them yet, but he loves to try. He likes to position himself around wherever they are and play with toys with them. He'll sometimes get on top of game boards if they're playing on the floor and he'll grab game pieces, which drives them nuts but he just likes to do whatever they're doing. :)