Kasen turns ONE!

It's so hard to look at my baby boy and have it register that he is one year old. 

He just seems so small to me still.

I feel like he has been in our lives forever. This past year has been so awesome and Kasen is such a sweet addition to our family.

He is such a happy boy and always smiling. He has these bright blue eyes framed with these crazy eyelashes. He just learned how to wave and clap and my favorite of all is now he follows me around the house saying "mama". He has started to get a little sad and fussy when he sees me walk out the door and will always reach his arms out to me for me to hold him. When he was an infant he was a stiff baby and would never snuggle or lay his head on my shoulder and rocking him to sleep was a rare occurrence. I am happy to say now that he is a snuggler and loves to crawl up on me and nussel his head into my lap. He is very content and pretty much does his own thing and keeps happy. He loves his bath time and sure gives me a workout when that time comes. Once he hears the water running he comes a crawling and can just about climb into the bath himself. He loves to lay and kick and slash and throw all the toys out of the tub and stand and roll and climb and slide down the sloped part of the tub. None of these things are things that are safe or things I just sit back and watch. I'm constantly sitting him back down and trying my best just to wash him. Really I should wear poncho when bathe him because I come out soaked as well. He loves walking around the furniture and walking with his walker but I think it will be a couple months still before we see any walking. He is super busy and always getting into something. The other day I found him in the laundry room and he had gotten Lexi's huge can of Mike and Ikes (that she left out) and dumped them everywhere. His back was to me and when I called his name he turns around with this sneaky smile on his face with a mouth full of candy and and two handfuls. There was chewed up and sticky candy everywhere. And he was sad when I took it all away. He was in heaven. 

I love this little boy so much and he has blessed our lives tremendously and I am so glad I get to be his mother. 

He is the only one of my children that actually ate their cake and didn't just sit there and cry. He gave me some good pictures. And when I turned around to see my girls they had cake all over their face. It was so funny but also so messy.