Chase Update

We didn't get to go to the Doctor for his 1 year appointment since we're up here in Canada and don't want to pay out of pocket, so I don't have any year stats.  He's about 20 pounds still, but I'm not worried about his weight, he eats a lot and he's a happy boy!

He went through a phase for a couple of weeks where he smiled this cheesy squinty-eyed smile that was so cute!  He's been cutting a lot of teeth lately, though, so he hasn't been as smiley.  He has 8 teeth showing through his gums now!

Chase walks all over the place, and he's a pretty fast walker, too!  He loves to be chased (a ha, "Chased"--get it?) around the house, and he even initiated peek-a-boo with me the other day.  I was sitting on the couch saying "Chase?  Where are you?" since I couldn't see him, and he popped up into my line of sight with a big smile on his face.  He continued doing that for another minute or so.  I was loving it..and so was Chase.

(Chase watching his favorite thing: Baby Einstein.  Why do kids love that so much?)

He's getting to be more of a handful in church now that he's walking everywhere.  He's always going up to different people during classes and such.  Last week he made the guy in front of us jump about two feet in the air when he grabbed his butt.  I think the guy thought someone behind him was trying to get fresh with him before he turned and saw Chase there.

(Getting into his snack cupboard.  He loves pulling all of his treats out, or used to anyway--we put blocks on the cupboards :) )

He doesn't say any actual words yet, but he does make a lot of noise.  He says a lot of different consonants, but he still loves saying "Da-da" the most.  He intentionally says "dah" for dog, too.  He has starting pointing at things he wants now, but he still refuses to do any of the sign language that I use.  I swear he doesn't like to imitate anything that we do-he just wants to be an original :)

Falling asleep on me is a rare sight.  It was so cute when he did.  Too bad I ruined the moment by dropping the camera on his head after taking this picture.  That was not a nice way for him to wake up, poor guy.

We love having this little guy around!

1st Birthday!!

Chase turned 1 on May 21st, and it was great to be with family for his birthday!  We had little cupcakes for Chase (I tried to arrange them in the shape of the number one--creative, huh?) but the cupcakes themselves didn't turn out too great, so we had a separate cake for us to eat.

Don't worry Hulet family, we did sing both Mom's and Dad's versions of "Happy Birthday" later, they just weren't recorded.

 I forgot to take a pic before Chase ate the cupcakes.  He had a second one so Nana and Grandpa Hulet could see him eat one on video chat.

(opening presents)

Overall it was a fun birthday!  Our little boy is growing up (sniff, sniff)...

Life with the Beazers pt 1

I guess we've been having too much fun here for me to sit down and document it on the blog.  I figured I better update us before I get too far behind.

When we first got here Brandon and Crystal were here as well, and it was so fun to hang out with them for a week!  Chase and his cousin Jadyn had a lot of playtime together, and most of it was spent with Jadyn following Chase around and Chase trying to ignore her :)  Unfortunately Chase isn't used to being around babies his age too much, but he's getting better.  At least he's not afraid of other kids-he just pretends like they're not there.  Crystal was still able to get some good shots of them together;  luckily she has a nice camera, so the pictures look nicer than what I usually can get:

 Chase and Jadyn being pulled in the mega blocks wagon

 Trying not to look at Jadyn while she goes in for the kill...

 ...still not looking.  "What is she doing?"

 Model shot

 Dressed up for Sunday.  We had to take a lot of shots to get them to sit still together and smile:

 Chase went over to play with the armoire, so guess where Jadyn went?

 Jadyn's so friendly, and Chase is...tolerant :)

 ...until she gets in his way.  Then he can be a bit pushy

Chase doing yoga with his Aunt Chanel.  You can't tell in the pic, but he's usually pretty good at downward dog.

We had fun with Brandon and Crystal here--we wish they lived closer!!