12 Months All in Wrapped Up in One

Okay,  I am now officially freaked out! I know people are always saying how they forget how small their children used to be but I never thought it would happen to me! I mean holy cow! He is clearly twice the size of his stuffed animal. What a year it has been! I feel incredibly blessed to have Kellen in our lives and I am constantly learning with him daily. During church today we talked about raising children and what the blessings were and I got to enjoy it while Kellen was fast asleep in my arms! (not something I get to do often) I have so much more to learn and I am grateful that Kellen and Brad are willing to go with me in this journey!

Now just a few things that Kellen has been enjoying:

Loves to listen to music and moves his little booty along with the beat

Loves, loves, loves his Baby Signing Time videos and has learned one-more!

Starting to crawl, scoot, and slide wherever he can go

Loves to say uh-oh and just learned wow (will only say it if you say it in a quite loud voice)

Says mama, but only when he needs/wants something

He loves to be with dad and play hide and seek around the house

Obviously there is more but I don't want to bore you plus he just learned how to get into the DVDs and that is what he is doing right now! Thank you Kellen and Brad, for dealing with me, and more importantly thank you all for the support and help you have been to us over this last year!

He had his cake and ate it too!

Lot's of stuff have been going on lately and I barely have time to take a picture or two, but Halloween was a success this year. Our neighbors had a costume that Kellen fit into wonderfully so it was a no hassle for me. In the picture you can't see his golf clubs but he went as a golfer! We didn't go trick or treating but went to a couple of Halloween parties!

Here are Kellen's 11 month photos. As some of you know his birthday is today but I will post the 12 month ones when I get around to taking the actual photo! It is a little harder now so I am glad to be on my last one. Here you can see he has learned to take his friend's paper and takes no care to the zebra at all. But in the end he knows how to give a good hug and snuggle!

We did just a little birthday party with some friends on Saturday. Brad had to work today so this was the best time. It wasn't extravagant just a time to get together and see Kellen eat cake. 

Here he is with his adopted Grandma Renee. He was extra snuggily then he usually was that night

He did not like that hat, I made him wear it for a couple of pictures and his face changed very little.

Here he is with Lisa, he really has come to love their family and everyone in our ward.

Dad wanted a big, one, candle so he put a bunch together resulting in one big flame! Kellen was pretty confused the whole time we sang to him, he just didn't understand why everyone was looking at him.

He really didn't get much more messy then this. He ate all the icing and then just wanted ice cream. 

Afterwards at home we opened up some of the presents friends/family gave us. Sorry mom and boys not sure if he likes the alligator yet, he got a bumble bee that rolls and makes noise so as you can see in the picture he just wanted that! Once I get his 12 month picture I will write something a little more sentimental about Kellen!