Kids Brock: Vaughn's Turns One

This may have been the fastest year of my life so far. Everyone always says kids grow up so quickly and I am realizing that in full force. On one hand I feel like I have known this amazing little guy my entire life and yet I remember so vividly the morning of my c-section and the excitement and anxiety I felt. Our little buddy has changed so many things about our lives and has given me the joy of experiencing a single birth like most women do. The first few weeks were rough getting little sleep and all the things that come with a newborn, but once we got into a rhythm and routine Vaughn has been a near perfect baby. He slept through the night (12hours) at 9 weeks, is incredibly laid back with all the activity in the house with his three, two year old sisters and rarely fusses other than if he is hungry, tired or needs a new diaper. He loves attention from his sisters and always laughs when they come around. He loves to be part of the action and ALWAYS has a smile on his face. Vaughn is extremely vocal and amazingly to me he says a bunch of words already, ball, more, mama, dada, hi, bye bye, up, yum, bubble, monkey noises are the ones that come to mind. I think it goes to show how much quicker things happen when there are older siblings to learn from. He is watching the girls all the time and clearly learning. I often wonder if he really IS just easy, or if it is that our previous experience was the opposite of easy with 3 babies at once. Hmmm.

Vaughn has his one year check up a few days ago and he is doing fantastic, here are his stats:
Length 31.5inches (80th percentile)
Weight 21.9lbs (65th percentile)
Head didn't get the size (99.9th percentile)

He has been off the bottle and on Vitamin D milk since a few days before his birthday, so it feels like he is no longer a baby. Making the transitions were a breeze, he is such a champ! He eats pretty much anything I put in front of him. He loves turkey, peanut butter sandwiches, all veggies, chicken, beef, then only thing he is a little hesitant with is fruit when it is cold and slippery. Naps on the other hand area huge difference with this kiddo. While the girls were taking two naps until they were two, Vaughn barely needs a nap at all. If he misses a nap completely you would never know it. He has pretty much cut out the morning nap and in attempt to create a time where all kids are sleeping for at least an hour during the day, I decided to put him down to nap when his sisters nap at 11:30. He is definitely ready to go to bed at 5:30-6pm and sleeps until his sisters wake at 7am. All things considered, it is a great schedule we have going. I would much rather he sleep less during the day and more at night than the other way around.

Vaughn loving his new tractor from Auntie Ang and Uncle Eric. I had a similar tractor when I was a bit older.

He gets really silly when he gets out of the bath, when I wrap him in the towel he shivers and makes really funny faces and noises. Vaughn is a very silly boy.

BIRTHDAY CAKE!!! He was a little unsure what to do with the cake in front of him, thank goodness for his his sisters, they were more than happy to show him what to do. They even gave him finger fulls of frosting to lick off their fingers. Super sweet!