Ben's 1 Year pictures

These are a little delayed. I didn't want the family to see before they got them as gifts for Christmas!! Here are some of my favorites.

Ben's first sled!

Santa also brought Ben his first sled (as well as snow pants and boots)! I wasn't sure he would like it since he doesn't like to be all bundled up. Once we got outside he LOVED it! He was smiling and looking all around. We put him up on a snow bank so he could move around if he wanted to but he just sat there...probably too hard to move in the snow suit!

Christmas 2009

Christmas with Ben this year was definitely more fun than last year. He got into the unwrapping a little, liked the toys, and loved the boxes! We spent some time in Mankato and then back up to Victoria to celebrate again with the Staloch side. Ben was spoiled by everyone and his toys are now taking over the living room (no hiding them anymore). We better get started on the basement playroom project!!








Trains, planes, and automobiles!


Look what Santa left!


Grandpa and Grandma had a train Ben LOVED to watch!


Grandpa LaMar brought Ben a rocking horse!


Present from Uncle Nic...good thing he was there to assemble it!

Present under the tree

Check this out....

Not sure why he even went under it to begin with.....just looked fun under there?! I was able to grab the camera quick enough to catch him coming out :)

Ben meets Santa

We took Ben to meet Santa last week. He wasn't real happy to sit on Santa's lap so we took a picture with all of us....although he still didn't look happy (but at least he wasn't crying). Maybe it was all the white hair he found a little scary...

Ben didn't find this guys beard scary :)

Uncle Nic and Amy babysat this weekend and they watched the Vikes game together

1st Haircut

Ben got his first haircut over the weekend. He was getting curly hockey hair in the back so it was time for it to come off! He wasn't sure what to think at first, then the crying started, Nuk was needed, then things were okay again :)

Not sure what's going on here...

Mom and Dad what are you doing to me?!

This is when the crying started...

Watching Elmo with his Nuk, everything okay again...

Funny boy

One of his favorite things to do is empty his drawer in the kitchen (it's filled with his spoons, bottles, bibs, etc.). He usually puts every spoon in his mouth as he takes them out one by one....or sometimes takes the whole tray of spoons and dumps them on the floor then picks them up to taste them all. This day he found a Walgreens medicine syringe (clean and empty of course) ....and the funniest part is he puts these things in his mouth and then crawls around with it in his mouth like a pacifier or something. Funny boy!