So the little man finally walks @ 14mos. He has apparently been walking at daycare since the beginning of March, but wouldn't do it for us at home. i guess he knew that we are a bunch of suckers :) I found this out when I was relating a story of a little 10 mo. old girl, who walked around our school building unassisted like a champ! She is the great-granddaughter of Ms. Burtwell (the greatest woman in the world to have in a classroom with you) I went to Daycare that day a little bummed that this little girl at 10 mos. was a solid walker and Ben at 13 mos. still wouldn't walk. As i was telling the woman who runs the daycare this story she looked at me very quizzically and said, "He walks, watch." She proceeded to set him on the floor where, unassisted, he walked over to the bookshelf which was a good 5 feet away. However, he then caught me in his sight line, dropped to his knees, and very energetically crawled over to me! What a little bugger! Obviously he was picking and choosing the audience for which he would crawl and I was not invited to the show... Thank goodness he finally changed his mind! I was afraid that I was going to have to carry him around for the rest of his life :)
Anyway here is a video of him walking, sort of... Enjoy!
Ben LOVES his bath. He splashes and plays and laughs... It doesn't matter what kind of day he has had, when it is bath time, he is happy. I love this time of day with him and treasure the joy he gets out of such a simple thing. Here are a few pictures of bath time :)
Last Friday February 5th Benjamin David Buck turned 1 year old. our little party was very little... we had a major blizzard that night that kept everyone home. (we got about 28" of snow in 24 hours.) We had cake and opened some of the presents. He didn't make it all the way through, so we saved some for the next morning.
What a PAIR!!!
Oh my gosh, I am SO EXCITED!
That lemon curd is SOUR
Conrad and Gran
Look at me I am helping put things away:)
My new cat piano that Great-Grandma McCandless gave me. What a wonderful find! She must know how much I love kitties:)
Thank you so much for the wonderful piano! I love it.
We had a wonderful weekend and hopefully you all did to! Meghan is counting down the days till the end of the school year. 18 school days left! 
