The first snip, which of course we kept..........
she's spritzing him here, hence the eyes........
and finally Kim and Ben.
It turned out really well, thanks again Kim for coming over and doing such a great job. If you want to check out a few videos of Ben's first haircut, click here
Here he is with his cake, chocolate of course with chocolate icing, for ultimate messiness!!!
He actually licked all the icing first, then started to eat the cake............. 
Of course this is the best pic of the day!! But what's a picture when you can see the video? check it out here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxCAhrKz7rg
I love this pic of him with mom and dad, they hadn't seen him for about 6 weeks, so they saw quite a difference in him...................
Grammie and Ben playing with streamers............
And Ben opening his gifts........
The slide Grammie and Poppie Richardson got him.......
And both grammies with Ben.
Of course, he wasn't really into opening gifts, but it was still fun.
This is the animal train that Santa brought
And here he is having his Christmas dinner. I think he likes turkey!
All kids like boxes, right? Here's Ben in the box his new wagon came in
and here's his new wagon. It's pretty cool, wheels can be switched to skis
All in all, it was a wonderful Christmas, though pretty quiet. Joey and Kelly came for a short visit Christmas night, and we visited Gramps the next day. New Years Eve was great too, thanks again to Darcy, Melissa and Mitch for watching Ben, we had our first night out "since Ben". I'm sure Ben had fun, and it was nice to visit with friends...Happy New Year!
We went to McAdam to spend a few days with my family on December 13th, Mom and Dad found a big difference in him, especially with him walking now~ they hadn't seen him since the baptism. Here's my Mom and Ben in front of their christmas tree, waving to the camera.
I think there's no better feeling than when a baby falls asleep on you, and he looks so peaceful here with Grammie!
It's always play time with Poppie, here's a picture of them together in St Andrews.
We stopped for a visit with Great Grammie and Great Grampie in St. Stephen, they got quite a kick out of him.
Okay, this blog is really starting to bother me. I can't add any more pictures here, so this entry will have a couple of different parts. Stay tuned..........
After St. Stephen, we went to St. Andrews to visit my mom's mom, she'll be 97 in February, and is in remarkable shape. Of course Ben was talking a mile a minute (his own language), and she thought he was just adorable.
In the manor where Grammie lives, for some reason they have these 2 huge stuffed animals, way bigger than Ben, and he kept going for their noses!!
On our way back home, we wanted to stop in at my sister's in Penniac, to see them all. Unfortunately Bill wasn't there, but we had a good visit with Ang, Andrew, Sam, and Allan and Hunter, Andrew's two boys. Unfortunately i didn't get a picture of them though........
And finally a picture of Sam cuddling with Ben. A smile with no teeth, but that'll change soon, she gets her braces off this month. Yippeee!!!!!!
Somehow, we didn't get a picture of Andrew either, but that's really no surprise. He never seems to be around when the camera comes out...............
All in all, a wonderful trip to McAdam and areas, it was great to see everyone. Even with all the travelling, Ben didn't lose his sunny disposition (thank goodness!) and we can't wait to see everyone again real soon!
His snowsuit is so big on him he could hardly move!
And lastly, I thought I'd include a picture of the new windmill that Joe and Jason put up, it'll help the trout that they had stocked the pond with. The bad news is that the pond will not freeze over completely this year, so unfortunately no skating or hockey here................
Friday when we got there, there was quite the fire going in the camp, so we stripped Ben down, and here is Mitchell (13 and very talented, he has his own band!) playing his electric guitar for him, Ben just loves it!!
It was such a beautiful day, around 15 deg or so, so we put Ben's playpen outside. I wanted to include this pic because it's not very often I can get a pic of him when he's not looking and smiling for the camera!
Ben just loves Jade, they had a lot of fun playing together on her bed.
Later that night, poor Jake, Darcy and Melissa's dog got sprayed by a skunk. We were lucky it was just him, since we had Kaizer there, and there was one other dog there as well. Liss had heard about this wonderful antidote for skunk, and were very lucky to actually find some baking soda and peroxide. After a couple of batches of the magic solution,
poor Jake was finally smelling good again, although quite cold. Darcy is famous for his wonderful fires, so after some time curled up in front of it he was much better.
