If you looked at all of the pictures we have of Ben since his first birthday, you would see that he loved birthday cake,
his mom makes him wear crazy home-made hats for major milestones (the first is a crown the second is the very hungry caterpillar),
had 2 birthday parties (one on his birthday and one with his grandpa's side of the family a week later), has grown attached to a stuffed animal named George,
loves to play the piano and has regular piano lessons with daddy,
thinks its fun to walk around on dry land in his life preserver and fall down like a sumo wrestler who can't get up,
and has grown into a full-blown toddler in just 4 months!
If we had more pictures, you would see that Ben also loves to have water poured on his head in the bathtub or at the pool, moves his body like crazy to any music, infrequently speaking words like shoes, cheese, out, book and bye, but never on command, and especially loves planes, trains, trucks that make noise as well as animals and expressing his interest with lots of pointing, grunting and screeching and noises that sound like what-ta and oy.
